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    Banned for two months after posting a Jonathan Cook article. Archived Message

    Posted by Morrissey on October 27, 2020, 5:54 pm

    [Dear Mr Breen,

    I regret to have to advise you that you have been banned from this site for two months.

    Yours sincerely,

    Incognito

    PS The reasons for your self-inflicted demise are obvious. However, for the record, I shall spell them out for you:

    1) A Moderator gave you clear instruction here (https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-27-10-2020/#comment-1762468) and instructional examples here (https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-27-10-2020/#comment-1762510) how to copy & paste and format quoted text. You opted to ignore this and repeated the same ‘mistake’ again.

    2) In a dedicated Post today on how this site works and in particular, how Moderation works on this site, the Author-Moderator wrote:

    “Both of the main moderators at the moment are short on patience for spamming the site with long cut and pastes. Use your own words, a short quote and link.” [my italics]

    As a long time regular of this site, you know this. You also know that you and others today were exhausting Moderators’ patience. You opted to ignore this.

    3) In that same dedicated Post it was made clear that wasting Moderator time is not tolerated, especially when Moderators are short on patience, which they are at present. In addition, commenters don’t like having their time wasted either or their browsing polluted by wasteful comments. You know all this. You opted to ignore it.

    4) You have one particularly bad habit, which is “to post [i.e. paste] a small section of a larger piece by some writer, without at least some comment by this writer” [your own words]. This is intellectually dishonest because you don’t own the words. Usually, in your case, it is about who said those words rather than what was said. In any case, you don’t stick your neck out and it is almost always about somebody else’s views and opinion, which you either strongly agree or disagree with, as you so aptly demonstrate with your superlatives. For this reason, responses to your comments tend to go nowhere and robust debate almost never ensues. This is wasting people’s precious time here. You continually opt to ignore this.

    5) Read more…. [in other words, I can’t be bothered giving any more reasons for your short ban]

    The End]


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