The Anonymous thread and my arguement for why it should be restored

Hi C. Lee,

Respectfully, your assessment of the "Anonymous Declares War on Scientology" thread is inaccurate. Even if we ignore the fact that the "Anonymous/Scientology" dispute is in fact news and therefore viable to be talked about, no one in that thread was attacking Scientologists for their beliefs, and neither is the group known as Anonymous.

Their contention with Scientology are the leadership and corruption, the fact that they have a tax exemption status despite operating as a business, or their fair game policy that justifies lying, suing, or destroying any non Scientologist who speaks out against the church.

The purpose of the thread was never to attack their beliefs, and if any of that happened, it was in the distinct minority, not worthy of a thread delete, in my opinion.

Since it's not breaking any rules, and it isn't promoting religious hatred, I'd hope it would be restored. People should have a right to know about Operation Snow White (when Scientology, under the leadership, infiltrated and stole documents from the US Government in the largest infiltration in their history).

 

Except it doesn't. Unless reporting on real world events is promoting hatred. In fact the only hatred really present in that thread was people mocking the ones wanting to protest the human rights abuses, and typically issues like that are dealt with on a poster/mod basis. The entire thread isn't junked.

 

Actually, I made this thread after you didn't get back to me.

Through had the mods actually responded to mod requests about people trolling the thread, it wouldn't have gotten to the point where you deemed it appropriate to be junked.

Also, the people who were trolling the thread had since left, having been shown wrong on many issues. The 'people being rude to each other potion had been totally resolved by the time C. Lee decided to lock the thread.

It would be nice for this new thread if you guys wouldn't actually not junk threads for no reason (and under false pretenses), that would be great.

I'll make a new one.

Thanks for you time.

 

2 tops and they weren't anything more than tertiary threads. The "anonymous declares war on Scientology" thread was really the thread with the momentum, not to mention that it was closed for no reason.

Really there's no reason to not just restore the old thread seeing as the issues from its inception were worked out fine, and maybe the mods would actually moderate it moving forward.

...rationally?

 

Unfortunately there was no rational reason for that thread to be closed, since there was virtually no intolerance of religious beliefs happening, at all. Similarly the thread was not propagating religious hatred.

A lot of work went into that thread in the form of collecting referenced sources, etc, and it was deleted for a fallacy of a reason based on the complaints of a poster who didn't understand the thread in question. It would b a huge inconvenience to have to recreate the thread, seeing as all the compiled materials in the thread would have to be re-assembled.

 

Sorry X Chick, but the topic went south when mods didn't do anything about it or respond to requests, then it was fixed because the people trolling the thread left or were argued into submission and than they left. The thread was clearly done with any people trolling it. e|Even when the thread 'went south' the only person doing that was Whirlysplat. That does not warrant a thread close, because everyone was debating in a heated but civil manner.

I'm not even up in arms that thread is gone so much that the mods did nothing to respond to mod requests prior, and deleted now for no reason.

 

I Pmed you

02-14-2008 Hey, 02:36 PM C. Lee, Malice

You responded


02-14-2008 Re: Hey,
09:57 PM C. Lee

I made this thread on

Yesterday, 09:36 PM

You chose to respond only after I made the thread? Eitherway, I hope your son/daughter/child is feeling better.