You realize you just proved that there was a more appropriate, better reasoned way of dealing with
@Yudu Reeolies's comment? You've just demonstrated that a heavy-handed and baseless claim of terroristic threatening wasn't even necessary.
Not that I take your citation of forum rules as anything but disingenuous considering that you remained silent when other forum members accused Yudu of a CRIME, while not hesitating to cite me for expressing the opinion that a self-selecting group of people were behaving irrationally.
And even if I wanted to take you seriously, your pal
@Ryan Thomas Riddle gave the game away...
Not only does he transforms a claim of irrational behavior into him being an "idiot", he takes the word "cynicism", which I clearly apply to the content of his post and not himself, and states that I'm calling him a cynic. So now I have no reason to believe he and others wouldn't have taken it personally even if I'd taken more care with my wording and simply stated that the conclusion was irrational.
But don't worry. I'll keep "post not poster" in mind for future posts, if only to avoid this kind of time-wasting rhetoric.
Well you're the Award-Winning Journalist. You tell me.
Nonsense. You've provided no objective criteria for what makes a person an expert for the purposes of this forum thread, either for posting or for the sake of judging who should be allowed to post. Instead, you say that I must defer to judgment of individuals who have undergone no formal appointment or certification process and assume that they will be completely fair and impartial in their judgment regardless of my past experience. That doesn't sound simple, that sounds like politics.
I hate to break it to you, but someone just got not-so-subtly threatened with a forum ban for not deferring to
@Maurice's expertise. Outside of being banned outright, what more extreme form of gatekeeping could the forum exercise? And the most generous that Maurice could be to this person is turning a blind eye while it happened.