On ATS, Ignorance Is Winning, page 4

Originally posted by Majic
inject off-topic noise, sloganeering, hatred, bigotry and propaganda into almost every thread and frankly, I have finally had enough.

but how can any of it be stopped? None of that violates any terms of service or standards. In fact, I have been warned on serveral occasions for refering to someone who calls for the extermination of a people, or implies that an entire race is inferior, a bigot and a pig. Now, I understand why ATS has to warn me or anyone in that situation, because one is making it an issue of the poster, rather than a greater issue that exists 'outside' the board. I don't feel comfortable with it, and I think that, if someone cannot back up their claims of racial/social/moral superiority, then they should be informed that they are not allowed to post it because 'one is not allowed to post information knowing it is false'.

That would be a huge jump for the board. For example, one can come to the board and say 'all muslims are inherently murderous, why, because of this section of the koran, yada yada yada' and then someone else can come along and point out that that person is either lying because of this section or because there is nothing that bounds a muslim to behave in such and such a way or because this section of the koran forbids that, or whatever. And then the poster doesn't get to walk around saying 'screw you, me hates muslims because muslims is bad'. IOW if you can't at least make a rational attempt at supporting your claims, you don't get to repeatedly harp on them.

You can of course try again. So, for example, you can't claim that 'red states' in the US are statisically stupider than blue states, at least not after that position has been refuted as its widely been done. But you could say, 'this new study demonstrates that reds are dumb' or some such.

And of course there are some positions that aren't open to refutation in the first place. For example one can post 'there is a civil war brewing in the US, over such and such issues, and I've generally gotten this impression from my overall take on the various news reports comming in from all over the place, because of this and that' and not necessarily be open to 'refutation'. Therefore you can still talk about it openly in other threads and whatnot. But one can't jump into a thread on islamic history and start yelling about 'muslims are required to kill all non muslims unless they convert' since its already been established that this isn't true.

it wouldn't be censorship per say, it'd just be a requirement to not 'abandon' threads that you don't like because you can't back up your statements, and then go somewhere else to start it all over again.