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The vast majority of the news you post, upper 90 percentile, carries with it no potential for discussion on a revolutionary discussion forum. It is the same type of news that is spammed on dead spaces on the internet, such as many imc sites that went the direction you're attempting to take this forum. Spam posts about magic crystals, tiny liberal gatherings, reforms, monolithic organizations falling over themselves to have a public face in the anti-war category of social capital and actual monetary gain, it's genuinely pathetic to see someone attempt that and then claim they are acting on revolutionary praxis.
I'm sorry that you summarily dismiss things that you don't know anything about, but on the strictly *political*, event-type posts I've contributed, the validity is that these are actual organizations organizing around actual *events* that oppose the capitalist-imperialist power structure.
In other words, these are valid political *developments* that are news- and attention-worthy -- your dismissiveness is unwarranted because from the revolutionary perspective these are *tactics*.
I'll note that, as usual, you're not addressing any of the *content*, or the subject matter itself, preferring instead to issue sweeping blanket opinions that you want to see implemented as official active board policy.
Jesus -- at least get my username right -- (!)
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your spamming of the forum is a fact, not a personal opinion.
No, you're incorrect because all your faction does is *say* that it's spamming -- granted, there's been no definitive judgment from the higher-ups, so I think, along with your faction, that that would be most appropriate at this point.
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Independent of what I and others have said. Even if Bixx, EliIll, and others never came onto the forum, and it was just filled with your constant copy-pasting of inbox mass emails you receive, the FACT of the matter is that what you're doing would still be spam. Just spam that nobody is complaining or "opinionating" about.
I continue to be astounded that you and others in your faction are so put-off by these kinds of posts -- at *worst* they're just posts of information that you don't care to see, so then just skip over them. Just because they're not of interest to *you* doesn't mean that they're invalid in their entirety, as to potential others.
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Spam is the sending of mass, unsolicited messages to people online. You are literally transplanting the mass emails YOU signed up to receive directly onto the forum, which means that users here, who did not sign up to your mailing lists, get the experience of essentially being subjected to mass emails that they didn't solicit. In other words, spam.
I made sure that all of the content was / is *appropriate* to the forum posted-in, and also according to a factor of newsworthiness / event-worthiness. I think you may be looking at this issue too-technically, and are thus ignoring the *content* / subject matter as a result.
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This is a fact, just like it's a fact that the Earth is round and not flat. The disagreement here does not consist of two parties who just have different opinions. It involves a fact, one party pointing out the fact and expressing exasperation over it, and another party that keeps denying the fact is a fact by suggesting it's only a matter of opinion.
Well, board policy *has* changed, and I've been complying with it.
My concern at this point is that your faction could become dogmatic about your defining of 'spam', and make further pushes to limit what kind of posts I can and cannot make.
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The vast majority of the remaining participants on revleft have pointed this out to you repeatedly, explained it patiently, and when you resorted to gaslighting them, ignoring their questions (like the one Elill has posted at least a dozen times), and pretending that they were conspiring to crusade against you for some unknown reason, people became angry and less than civil. They had every right to. The only surprising thing is that people have been as gentle and patient as they have. I get the impression that their patience is wearing very thin at this point.
Well, for whatever it's worth, I'm not *trying* to antagonize anyone -- I just happen to see things differently, and I don't hesitate to say as much. I'll repeat that it would be good to get some more-detailed, definitive board policy nailed-down around this topic of alleged spam.
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I have my own theory about why you do what you do on the forum (the ritualized and compulsive posting of spam articles), but it's not unfair for people to come away with the conclusion that you're either as dumb as dogshit, or that you're a troll.
This shouldn't *be* about the individual -- myself -- but instead should be a uniform *policy* that is hopefully arrived-at from a bottom-up process (congruent with the very politics that we espouse).
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A serious question: why do you come to revleft? It's a discussion forum for leftist politics, but it appears you come here mainly just to transplant your inbox onto the forum, while making occasional comments here and there (which are usually pretty funny in their own right, since they betray how little you really know about leftist politics).
So I ask: why do you come to revleft?
It's a fair question -- in the past, before the Internet, I was more on-the-ground, but *since* the mainstreaming of the Internet, and the availability of discussion boards like RevLeft, I've seen that more can be done *online*, such as dealing with revolutionary and geopolitical issues, and with internal, more-theoretical and also internal policy issues, like this one regarding the board's defining of 'spam'.
I still disagree with your characterizations, of course. (I'm not trying to 'transplant my inbox', but rather to select the most topical information that happens to arrive *in* my email inbox, in the form of emails, which -- for some reason -- you find to be so objectionable.)