Tradiban Redacted?

M Awrote:

My post was to point out why many people do not lament his ban. Free speech absolutism is perhaps the most "discussed" topic online and holds very little interest for most people. In tradibans style, just because it holds a little, tiny, microscopic nugget of truth does not mean we want to get hit over the head with it for 12 pages.

I'm good with folks who don't lament the ban.  And I am okay with pointing out why they don't lament.  No problem.

Interesting phrase though:  hit over the head for 12 page with Tradiban's nuggets of truth.  I imagine some see it just as that and others don't.  

Bill Lawrywrote:

I'm good with folks who don't lament the ban.  And I am okay with pointing out why they don't lament.  No problem.

Interesting phrase though:  hit over the head for 12 page with Tradiban's nuggets of truth.  I imagine some see it just as that and others don't.  

Tradi was more interested in getting reactions from people than he was in truth. His game plan reveals his motivations: he would consistently make seemingly sincere points to start engagement and then get increasingly hyperbolic with time to see how far he could take it before people caught on and stopped engaging with him. 

That isn't the MO of someone interested in truth. If ever there was an element of truth its primary purpose was to act as a disguise and make him appear sincere before he went batshit bananas about four posts later. 

Btw, y'all are still going on about all this huh? 

Have fun, I'm going climbing. 

Truth is a barrier to interesting conversations with different points of view. It would be a reasonable focus if this were a cookie cutter world. Thankfully it is not.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 

Ricky Harlinewrote:

Have fun, I'm going climbing. 

You’ll be back 

Robert Swrote:

So who is this Russ guy people keep mentioning? Life has lately been too busy for me to follow the drama here much.

Nobody has answered Robert’s question — the Russ in question is Russ (the fish) Walling 

“And MP didn’t even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach around “ 

                                  — Gunnery Sgt Hartman

Not Not MP Adminwrote:

You’ll be back 

Definitely maybe. Health is starting to do better, climbing more, wasting time on the proj less. 

Buddy and I put up a 40m 5.8 hand and fist crack today with a super fun roof. Put it up ground up a couple weeks ago and put in rap bolts, cleaned it and did the FFA today (that roof was pretty intimidating to punters like us on the FA, didn't get it clean first go. Also it was horrifically dirty and we only found good feet after much scrubbing. Let's blame that one).

Now that I can do this sort of day regularly again I'll be not using the proj as a way to pass the day as I do when my health is doing poorly, but will stick to posting when I think I have something to say which people might value. 

Like, cheers, eh?

Ricky Harlinewrote:

Definitely maybe. Health is starting to do better, climbing more, wasting time on the proj less. 

Buddy and I put up a 40m 5.8...

Now that I can do this sort of day regularly again I'll be not using the proj as a way to pass the day as I do when my health is doing poorly, but will stick to posting when I think I have something to say which people might value. 

Like, cheers, eh?

not that I dont believe you... But, you're not off to a good start!!!

Ricky Harlinewrote:

…..but will stick to posting when I think I have something to say which people might value. 

K

Yurywrote:

Mark, you are missing the point.
These people want to control what other people think and write.

Oh yeah. That's it. I'm a real control freak.

That Yury! What a card. I'm in stitches. 

control freak:a person who feels an obsessive need to exercise control over … others and to take command of any situation.

When the means are available to literally ignore someone’s post, but one still cheer’s on a lame ban - the definition fits?  I don't know.  It's just surprising me, Tim and others.

What a fun thread. And productive!

FrankPSwrote:

What a fun thread. And productive!

Jump right in, Frank!  It's better in the fire than in the frying pan.  ;)

Bill Lawrywrote:

Jump right in, Frank!  It's better in the fire than in the frying pan.  ;)

You guys are already having too much fun. I like watching a knock-down, drag-out fight with no winners. Please continue.

FrankPSwrote:

You guys are already having too much fun. I like watching a knock-down, drag-out fight with no winners. Please continue.

So we'll put you down in the "Unban Tradiban" column then...

ubuwrote:

So we'll put you down in the "Unban Tradiban" column then...

Any column is fine.

It’s 2024 Frank, we are all winners.

14 pages. Go climb something or look at the northern lights. 

Climbing Weaselwrote:

14 pages. Go climb something or look at the northern lights. 

Love these comments.

Here you are, page 14, wrestling with the pigs in the mud. Maybe you should take some of your own advice. 

Climbing Weaselwrote:

14 pages. Go climb something or look at the northern lights. 

The northern lights are soooooo last week bro