2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: We don't have a first amendment right to TRASH the NOMINEE on DU [View all]merrily
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No one pretended to be having a discussion about the totality of the board. So, "forgot" has absolutely nothing to do with anything. If you wanted to interject yourself into a discussion I was having with another poster to bring up a point totally unrelated to my discussion with the other poster, fine. Things like that happen on discussion board. No need to pretend that I "forgot" to mention something that had no relation whatever to a discussion I was having with another poster about one specific rule.
As to the point you brought into the discussion for the first time, though: One poster's and one board's "standards of discourse are another poster's and another board's censorship. I just try to follow the rules and my own rules wherever I happen to be posting. And the fact that a board does not believe in many rules or much censorship does not mean a board is "perfectly fine" with everything posted there. I just means the board has chosen to censor less than other board.
I don't agree with every post at JPR or at DU. I am sure you don't agree with every post on DU, either. For that matter, there have been specifically a few "standards of discourse" I have alerted on at DU as in violation of DU's TOS because of sexism, or racism, or homophobia that juries have not only allowed to stand, but have mocked me for alerting on them. I would not call you or any DUer not involved out because of that either.
I find it very odd that anyone would seek to hold me accountable for every thing posted on DU or on JPR by any poster that does not suit them. I don't own either board or make the rules for either board and I am not even a mod or host for either board, though I do jury here. I would not dream of pretending you are accountable for everything I don't like about DU because of some post you did not make.
(Journaling because this is by far not the first time, and likely won't be the last time, that someone reproaches me about a post made here by another Bernie supporter or a post made at JPR.)