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M Kitt

(208 posts)
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 11:42 PM Feb 2016

Can anyone name a "Liberal" site kicking members off without good reason?

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by EvolveOrConvolve (a host of the Atheists & Agnostics group).

http://www.thomhartmann.com/users/mfkmail7/blog/2016/01/renegade-du-site-member-kicked-twitter-commentary-follows

Think about it. Any site at all, give it a minute.

If that were the case, if you had been kicked off without recourse or reason give, if emails were not replied to and site management completely ignored personal requests, what would you do?

Per the above post, some of us have logged back on as "New Users" in violation of site policy, for purposes of complaint.

Which would of course be used as rationale for further "Violation" under site management authority

But hey, if you were running a "Group" and had complete control, if you could essentially snuff out all opposing viewpoints base on entirely partisan criteria, wouldn't you "Indulge"? Wouldn't you (perhaps) kick a member out of that group without notice, even if it were their first post on that Group?

Membership on any site isn't worth "Indulging" site management if they're prone to complete abuse of their authority. If group rules, when opposed, lead not only to being locked out of a group, but eventual lockout from the entire site for 12 days, would membership be worthwhile?

I'll eventually remove all of my posts from the particular site I'm referring to, it's not simply worth my efforts across 3 years to be kicked off of an entire site for a disagreement with a group "Manager". Essentially, that dictatorial "Power" is being supported by "Site Management", and to answer the question asked above, membership isn't worth being subjected to that kind of abuse.

Laterz.
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Can anyone name a "Liberal" site kicking members off without good reason? (Original Post) M Kitt Feb 2016 OP
Here's the first line of your link skepticscott Feb 2016 #1
I'm locking this EvolveOrConvolve Feb 2016 #2
 

skepticscott

(13,029 posts)
1. Here's the first line of your link
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 06:32 AM
Feb 2016
DU has locked me out completely, 3 years contributing member, because I had the audacity to email a site administrator saying "You Suck"

So please don't come here whining about people being kicked off "without good reason"

Tell you what...go to a few other "Liberal" sites and tell the owners "You suck" and see if anyone gives you a pat on the back for it.

EvolveOrConvolve

(6,452 posts)
2. I'm locking this
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 11:07 AM
Feb 2016

The A&A group isn't an appropriate place to settle a dispute with the owners of DU. While I'm sympathetic to your plight, there are a number of outright falsehoods in the piece you linked, so I'm unsure of your aims.

BTW, there's a forum in which your complaint can be heard:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1259

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