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crashfrog

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Message 1 of 121 (181406)
01-28-2005 3:36 PM

This is interesting so I thought I'd spin it off into a new thread. Percy started it with:

Percy writes:

A comment about being suspended or banned: I'm currently banned at Terry's TalkOrigins site over at MSN and have been for several years. He didn't like my aggressive discussion style, and so he banned me. But there's no hard feelings. Terry is welcome here, and I'd be glad to participate at his site again were he to let me back in.

I'm also banned at one other site, probably now defunct. Back in early 1997 someone started up a Creationism discussion board at Yahoo. I joined and was the only other member. Me and the board's owner discussed things for a week or two, then he banned me. That left just him. Weird, huh!

And I replied with mine:

Crash writes:

I get banned every other month, it seems, at the blog of an aquaintance of mine from college. (Probably revenge for that time I whupped his ass at Trivial Pursuit.) Then he updates his blog software, apparently loses his ban list, and I'm back.

In fact I'm probably long overdue for a temp suspension here at EvC, if only for all you other people to catch up.

And then Berberry dopped by with:

Berberry writes:

I'm proud to say that I got banned at the christianity.com message boards.

Berb, I'm curious, was it a stealth ban? Or do you have the thread where it occured?

Anyone else have their favorite gettin' banned memories?

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crashfrog

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Message 19 of 121 (181823)
01-30-2005 11:41 AM

Reply to: Message 14 by Percy
01-30-2005 8:08 AM

If we were to have an equivalent rule

An equivalent rule would be slightly less fair than yours; as Christianity.com's rule restricts its participants not just to Christianity but evangelical Christianity in particular, so too would "Rule 11" have to be similarly restrictive.

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crashfrog

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Message 25 of 121 (181954)
01-30-2005 10:56 PM

Reply to: Message 22 by nator
01-30-2005 12:49 PM

Re: bump

I then had a week long e-mail discussion with a couple of the site managers

Personally, I refuse to debate this topic, or pretty much any other topic, via email. The odds of convincing someone motivated not by evidence but by ideology are infinitesimal at best. Here, at least, there's the possibility of convincing a lurker. Not to mention, the public nature of the forum keeps people on the up-and-up.

But if you have the stomach for it, good luck.

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