You do love arguing things that aren’t even being discussed. They were removed for “trolling”. That means you were trolling, not some abstract higher order conversation. Just like the other recent violations for rule 4 and civility. This is not up for interpretation, it is fact that you were found to be doing these things.

Again, you shirk responsibility at every chance.

I didn’t decline to mention anything - the comments are moderated independently of each other, and it just so happened they decided both of you were trolling. Try and take responsibility for your behavior at the very least.

<waves at likely a fellow genealogist!> :)

Actually in most places it was however the person wished to be listed and often included full first names and sometimes middle initials. Or could sometimes be a couple like “John and Mary Doe”

I don’t have to explain anything to you.

No one has ever demanded you explain anything to them here. They may have asked, but your frankly ridiculous comment count is totally the result of you either offering explanations that don’t ring true, or copy/pasting ad nauseum replies to things that have not been posed to you.

And so yes, by definition, you are playing games. (i.e. denying you have been trolling and were moderated for it in just the last few days) You can try and explain that away, but it doesn’t change the facts about your behavior.

Oh, well, if we’re playing the game where other people get to decide what your intent was, then it’s only fair for me to say you’re a dishonest troll who never engages in good faith and has harmful motivations.

And before you report me for calling you a troll, you’re the one who decided to take my statement of intent, ignore it, and state I was saying the exact opposite. If we don’t get to be the authority on your motivations and intent, you don’t get to do that to others.

Sorry bud, but that was less a shoutout, and more like pointing at someone or something that can cause harm and calling it out to others as a warning.

Yes, I said I know. Your lack of empathy has been well demonstrated, no need to belabor it.

But your planned actions as stated will benefit him, as has already been explained to you by dozens of people. But no worries, bud - I know you don’t care. And that speaks volumes about you and your motivations.

Well, you could be sane and be worried about this sort of thing, or you could be OP who has repeatedly said they don’t care what happens if Trump is elected.

Oh good, you do know how to read the modlog! Great job, bud! Just wanted to make sure.

So you do admit that you troll sometimes? And since moderation is imperfect, the implication is that you’ve trolled more often than you’ve been moderated for. I wonder what the ratio is? Maybe you could provide some insight into how much more often? That would probably help the mods calibrate any needed changes for the good of the community. Wow, you and me helping the greater good! Huzzahs all around!

And again, I don’t care if you think I’m a troll. I know I’m not. The mods here know I’m not.

Hmm, are you sure about that? https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveComment&userId=9454261

I count five comments removed in just the past two days and three of those are specifically for trolling. I think that probably means the mods know you’re trolling. If you’re not willing to acknowledge that, I would suggest that factor into their adjudication of future complaints about your behavior.

Recommend starting off on some of his short story collections and if you like those, there’s a good chance you’ll like at least some of his novels. I’ve been reading most of his stuff for 40 years and have pretty much enjoyed all of his work. His endings can be iffy and he tends to sometimes feel a little tropey, but the writing itself is often enjoyable to read and solid. His book on writing called appropriately “On Writing” is excellent and great for understanding the writing process either as someone who wants to write or as a reader who wants to better be able to think about what they like to read and why.

Luckily, Spanish already has the perfect word: Toxicos. Which just means toxic men. I think I may just sub that in whenever referring to the state :)

This _ might_ be the dumbest take I’ve ever seen. Clearly someone made up their mind to hate Valve and everything they see just confirms their existing biases, reality be dammed.

That maybe could happen, but I say it’s much, much more likely they’re flying blind. Polling has become exponentially more difficult over time and there’s only so much you can do to try and address that with your methodology.

Ironically we’re pretty good at identifying trends in how sentiment is changing or shifting, but absolutely crap at being usefully predictive in terms of results.

Unfortunately that kind of thing is probably only going to increase as we get closer to Election Day.

Yeah, pretty sure he replied to the wrong comment again 🤣

Oh, there’s definitely blame to go around, but not holding Trump to at least some standard would be compounding the mistakes of the past.

No one can argue someone else out of being a Trump supporter, but I still believe there’s a chance to justifiably mock him enough to maybe change some minds. If more coverage focused on how laughably batshit insane he was instead of “ooh, look, he’s not following convention and he’s breaking the rules” it would help a lot. His lot can’t abide weaknesses and he’s definitely weak.

I mean, it’s important that it keeps getting called out. Too many journalists have been sanitizing his appearances and not making it clear he’s literally off his rocker