Take a look at the photo above. Read the thread and look it over, and try to fathom how the thread in anyway was overly violent or sexual in any way at all.
Sure, you say: Lincoln! Come on. The moderator who deleted your thread, and gave that warning -blam!-ed up. It was a simple miss click. Either way Lincoln, you brook the rules and you just need to accept that.
Sure. That's a fair conclusion to make, but you'd be wrong. I set out to test this conclusion by making the same threads but only changing who the threads were addressed to. I even posted these other threads on an alternate account not associated with my name.
Each thread was mass reported a few hours after the creation. It should be noted that this happened months ago.
These were the results of the experiment:
Thread 1: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/193131684
Thread 2: http://imgur.com/ykhlsZI.jpg
Am I the only one who finds it odd that the thread addressed to atheists was left untouched. The same thread when adjusted towards Christians and Muslims is taken down. The exact same thread. Funny. Not only that the second thread directed towards Muslims was deleted for what? Ohhh!!!!! Look at that!!! Sexual content/gory violence. Huh.
So, two threads, one directed towards Christians and one directed towards Muslims both get removed from bullshit false reasons. Some moderator did this purposefully.
Alternatively, it could be that on Bungie.net it is not acceptable to be critical of ideas because it might hurt somebody's feelings. The very act of asking for evidence for somebody's claims is bannable and not tolerable here.
Now. That would be fine if the standard was applied equally. It should be okay to claim Donald Trump is a God, but if a user questions such claims then that should be a bannable offense.
Hey. Somebody out there believes such a claim is true. We can't hurt their feelings. As I already established, being critical of ideas is against the rules. Notice the double standard? The standard applies for thought on religions, but not on other topics.
Either way, whether my first premise is true or the second is true there exists no good conclusion. Either there is a biased moderator out to censor atheists or Bungie.net is a flawed circle jerk that censors all critical thought against religion.
Tell me your thoughts on the topic.
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Edited by Zonda: 4/29/2016 3:23:57 AMBlame a sloppily written code of conduct for inconsistent moderation. I once got banned for saying 'ayy lmao' simply because I filled another thread with porn, and as a single incident at the time, they could only warn me and had to find another post that could be considered Spam to dish out a ban. good times. In this incident, I'd say the Moderator is trying to take it upon themselves to remove religious/political shitposts, and used the phrase '-blam!-ing carpenter' to satisfy the criteria for a ban under violence/explicit sexuality, because unfortunately this stale flamebait is still allowed to exist under the current code of conduct.