Nilgiri
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Bangladeshi or not, anybody who is posting to irritate an entire section of members - What the heck! even one member - isn't doing much for the forum or much to encourage reasonable discussion and debate. Lots of stuff happens; there is a million times, maybe a billion times more that happens than PDF can accommodate. So why do we need to post about this, or, like that Netherlands-based airhead, post rape threads about India?
The forum being one where the majority of posts is silly topics/posts is not a position with its feet embedded in concrete. We can, if we choose, improve the tone; it's posts that not only don't try to do this, but actually set out to worsen things that makes this a buffalo-wallow.
Its up to the mods to decide +
I mean how long was that ashok guy allowed here verbatim non-stop?...doing pretty much this but on like steroids of the nth degree?
Not to mention cretins like manlion ....and the others you mention starting the same old kind of thread that you again mention.... just to instigate (but lo and behold...they get their good share of upvotes from the needy mob too). I say give him the boot, but I understand others love his stuff (it serves an agenda of theirs)...and in the end the elders decide (and their mandate on that guy is clear....disturbing...but clear).
Is everyone (or large enough majority at least) rushing in united clarion call for action against those members on principle? Of course not...all depends on the larger mobs standards/popularity contest emotions.... esp those chosen ones that say they are running this place in the first place.
Its action across the board...or no action as far as I am concerned (when we go into intent-instigation type threads that are deemed to fall "within" the overall rules whatever those are). I am a firm enemy towards selectivity and dbl standards basically. Full monty or nothing at all. Only the latter though is as close to status quo as possible... hence far more prevalent (given the other way alters the landscape considerably, and higher ups fear what it would do more broadly for whatever objectives they have for this forum).... It is what it is.
So nope, I am not going to criticize Riyad...he is just one pretty small example of far broader (tolerated) symptom. I'm fine with the "do nothing" as long as "forum rules followed to the T"...works for the rest, so it works for him. What improves/worsens a status quo is a subjective thing too....again its out of our plebian control in the end anyway even if it weren't...that has been made painfully and plainly clear.
In any case whole bunch of Pakistani members were able to blow off steam that they otherwise would in other ways...likely less tolerable to me. Shouting Pakistan Zindabad (or Jai Hind/Vande Mataram etc in our case) a few times to make the regrets/feelings temper a little bit (from some "baddie's" instigation) is similar to what the parish priest here recommends to my buddy every so often (whenever he feels confident enough that he wont get smited right away as he enters the darn place)....i.e a few hail mary's and everything's just made peachy and right as rain again.
Its not on me to understand the specific mechanics of the why etc and proscribe some medicine for it... I just empathise with the deeper needs/realities of humans in general. We won't change fundamentally....yet we expect things we create to be suddenly and much different? Bernoulli saw the greatest problem's most elegant proof on the parchment sent to him anonymously...and immediately knew it was Newton's answer...for he recognised the "lion by its paw" as he would say later.
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