Nic said- I suppose one of the difference between you and I John is that I don't try to impose MY standards in places where I am only a guest . . .
Cedars said- If your standards involve public naming and shaming rather than resolving grievances in a friendly and amicable way, then I am only too pleased that you and I are different.
Cedars, are you "special pleading" again, demanding to be given permission to insult others who dare to publicly disagree with you (BTW, we're all out of fresh peanuts up here in the peanut gallery)?
Are you engaging in "special pleading" again, as if you special enough to be given the RIGHT to "publicly dispute or argue about a moderator's decision":
Cedars said-
I should add that at least two (maybe more) posters who dared to agree with me over the course of this thread have since been banned. If that isn't evidence of Simon's despotic tendencies, I don't know what is.
Now you're using your imagined "privileged status" to openly insulting the ADMIN?
WOW....
But I'll entertain your hypothesis, so let's conduct a little test:
Adam states publicly that he agrees with Cedars, who said the following back on page 4:
Personally I think it's unfortunate that a figure of 250,000 deaths has been put forward when it cannot be supported by any meaningful data. My approach to criticizing Watchtower is that they are giving us a treasure trove of material already without any need to resort to making stuff up, and damaging our argument in the process.
We'll see if agreeing with you was/is the problem, or if your hypothesis of agreeing causes automatic banning.
I'd be polishing up that "badge of honor" you were claiming you'd wear so proudly, since your legendary Messiah Complex and poor impulse control seems to be kicking in to high gear, and your comments continue to only decrease the signal-to-noise ratio on JWN (which is exactly what the prior two posters you referred to were doing with their OT trolling comments, NOT for publically agreeing with the esteemed Cedars, but for attacking others, even the admin, no less!).
(Admin/mods, feel free to remove this comment, as needed, since it's clearly OT and can be removed without compromising the continuity of the discussion.)
Adam