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See I would, but I got my M4 Carbine stuck in a fishing net.

I still get a kick that they gave stickman his own sub forum after he left here all bent out of shape

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We we haven't had one of these threads in almost 12-hours ....



I've been here 20-years, in the General Discussion for about 17-18 of those as moderator for a while and staff forever since.

What's not changed are the rules hear (much).

Users who think it's acceptable to violate rules 15 and 20 times have been around since the 1990's. They were just one or two years on the site when they got booted for failing to follow the community standards. Now it's THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT because it's now guys who have been here many many years and established themselves and made friends. They didn't think enough about the community nor their friends here to actually follow the rules. There might have been a 1-2% advance in the forum's rules (waiting for you to point out the egregious and heinous suppression of your ability to post here) in the last 20-years all due in reaction for something, shall we say, not good here?

In the close the 6000 or so reports I've handled the majority of them I've done NOTHING. The person reporting doesn't understand the conduct code nor the reasons behind the rules. Of the remaining minority of reports a majority of those get an edit and a poke i.e. [personal attack removed - Paul] which leaves that minority of a minority who get warnings.

A comment like "Fuck you Nic***83 and hope your mother fucking good-for-nothing, inbred family dies of painful cancer" is not going to get a simple edit and have a nice day. That's going to draw my attention and a well needed time-out.

So beyond giving knocks upside the head, being issued warnings, and timeouts we're out of tools. So if you've been knocked upside the head and continue to run your mouth you're going to find yourself awarded some warnings (which are a warning) and possibly some timeouts. Once you get a few of those and prove to us you don't care about our communities rules then you're in the >1% of people that earn a lock and that makes you a special kind of knucklehead. After the 4th or 50th time it's clear we're having difficulty communicating or you don't fucking care. We have run out of discipline at that point and either have to put up with the person's nonsense or not.

Normally we choose not to.

It seems what the majority of the 20-30 threads on this subject are asking for really is for the gentlemen's club to become more like a drunken locker room.

Go over there ---> and throw poop at each other, call each other names, insult family members, disrespect each other, get someone beat up or even shot ... and let the lawyers clean up your mess.

But count me out.

And I'm fine with that.

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I am confused. Is this new site moderation a vast left wing or right wing conspiracy?

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See I would, but I got my M4 Carbine stuck in a fishing net.

I still get a kick that they gave stickman his own sub forum after he left here all bent out of shape

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'05'ers gonna '05

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If it's not thread topics, it's the death by a thousand cuts of our best members whose political ideologies don't fall in line with the Ministry of Truth's group think.

The recent passing of Bradders, has really brought home to me personally how many great members this site has driven away.

The pattern is clear and irrefutable, the pattern of banning only helps the leftist blue_troll agenda.

This site is very quickly becoming a socialist gun website.  That is something that I want nothing to do with.  I don't even consider myself a conservative, I just don't want to associate with socialists or socialist sympathizers.

I first discovered this site, in the early 2000s.  I read the content on here for 4-5 years before I even got an account to begin posting with.  I wasn't drawn to this site because of guns.  Frankly, unlike many here, firearms for me personally are a very small part of my life.

I was drawn to this website because of:

1)  The members and their amazing depth of knowledge, varying opinions and life experiences / advice.

2)  The free exchange and analysis of ideas, concepts and theories.

3)  The humor and banter that we once COULD have with each other.

4)  The sense of community we once had.  Let me explain this, there would be members calling each other some awful things online when they disagreed, but like the grown men we are, we would be over it 15 minutes later and helping each other with a build, or listening and advising each other about family or work problems.

It's a fact a life that men bond with each other through conflict.   Some of the members I like the most are guys I got into some really heated debates with.  Men lose their cool every once in a while during heated debates.  That's ok.  That's all part of the process.  We can't do this anymore because someone catches a banhammer in the bootyhole for something very benign and healthy.

The incremental censorship over the last 10-12 years has destroyed almost all of what makes ARFCOM, ARFCOM.

We need less rules not more.

Unless something massive is done to alter the course of this website, myself and a huge number of other members will be gone.

I will have nothing to do with a socialist gun website.  

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I still like it here but I also don’t post very much. GD is like /b/ without so many dick pics: if you can wade through all the bullshit there is great stuff to be seen on here.

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If he's gone can we use this thread for stuff like recipes?

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Is this another one of those Hey, look at me I'm leaving threads?

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I used to like Stickman. What happened?

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Traditionally, conservatives are the type who invoke censorship, not progressives.

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I think of that place an ARFCOM grave yard. Memorial to the tarded if you will.

They should probably find some better SME's.

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Indeed.

That said, I wonder how many of these threads we will have until staff and mods agree there is a problem, or Brownells wonders what they bought.

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I joined and lurked for the knowledge of tech forums, I stayed for GD.

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What what? Socialist website? I honestly can't tell if this is a joke or not.

As for censorship (which has nothing to do with socialism--again, I'm still trying to figure that one out), ARFCOM is quite possibly the LEAST censored hobby forum I've ever been a part of.

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If he's gone can we use this thread for stuff like recipes?

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Free Gunwrtr.

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If GD is a gentlemen’s  club where are the lap dances?

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If GD is a gentlemen’s  club where are the lap dances?

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