Yeah, this is kind of silly. You mods can ban people or lock threads with whatever prejudice you choose. It's your right. Plus, it's just an internet message board. Nobody's expecting you to establish an Integrity Commission to ensure you're doing your jobs properly.
But let's not pretend that there is some type of decorum being upheld on this forum when, as Exception points out, there is certain language that is allowed to fly here.
It's a bit of a double standard when racist threads are so quickly locked but homophobic slurs are permitted. As is topical right now with Sochi, gay people are being persecuted, beaten, killed, and treated like lesser humans in a similar way to how African Americans were treated in decades passed. Just because there aren't (I assume) any gay posters on this forum, doesn't make it acceptable.
This is usually when the guy with tits for a username reps my post down.
EDIT: All that said, I fully support any mod that locks a thread like Rex's if, as Atom indicated, they are "degenerating into personal attacks."
But let's not pretend that there is some type of decorum being upheld on this forum when, as Exception points out, there is certain language that is allowed to fly here.
It's a bit of a double standard when racist threads are so quickly locked but homophobic slurs are permitted. As is topical right now with Sochi, gay people are being persecuted, beaten, killed, and treated like lesser humans in a similar way to how African Americans were treated in decades passed. Just because there aren't (I assume) any gay posters on this forum, doesn't make it acceptable.
This is usually when the guy with tits for a username reps my post down.
EDIT: All that said, I fully support any mod that locks a thread like Rex's if, as Atom indicated, they are "degenerating into personal attacks."