Reply #189: but actually, that's EXACTLY what happened in this case... [View All]

[NorthernSpy]

There are posts which are every bit as insulting and offensive to gay people when compared to the "dog shit" post that this thread addresses. However, those posts become "Deleted subthreads" while the offending DUer is not tombstoned. This happens repeatedly.

Consequently, when asked to provide links to anti-gay/homophobic posts -- one can't do it. It's as if the problem doesn't exist. So, perhaps a more aggressive enforcement is needed? One which takes "dog shit" posts as seriously as the stuff which disappears in "deleted subthreads".

But that's exactly what happened in the "dogshit" case. My poll concerned an offensive statement made by someone else, which I quoted and linked to.

That statement -- and the subthread that contained it -- got deleted. The person who made that statement didn't get banned, and his thread didn't get locked.


As you can see, the enforcement actions were the same in this case involving race and religion as in the cases involving homophobia that you allude to.


And by the way, I know of a thread in which a poster declared black culture "lousy", and another in which a different poster said that in the near future, science would finally prove blacks mentally inferior. As far as I know, neither poster got banned, and the first post actually stayed up.

Maybe it seems this way to you, but I don't think that anti-black sentiments are treated more seriously than homophobia.