Are Masons in control of Secret Societies Forum, page 1

Just read the bizarre locked post by the Pro-Masonic moderator Nygdan. It is crazy abusive, also not factual, as I witnessed the abuse this poster received for just posting a few quotations from books critical of Freemasonry.

If you read the post, you should know this - the member in question continues to register new account names and posts false information.

He's also a plagiarist. We don't look kindly on people who display a stunning inability to follow simple rules for source attribution. It's really very simple - cite your sources, don't copy and paste giant chunks from other websites/books/articles without attribution/link/ex tags.

What you witnessed was the tip of the iceberg...

All his posts got deleted and he got banned.

We do not allow plagiarism. That rule isn't going to change, no matter how much you complain. Anyone who can't follow simple, common-sense rules and show respect to both the authors of the material they steal, and the members of this site, doesn't deserve to be a member.

The Masons and prop-mason moderators violated every ATS terms of service in the book by the vulgar abuse they hurled at him. He did nothing but make a few posts from some books critical of their "fraternity".

You keep saying this, over and over again, but that doesn't make it true.

Are you a disciple of the 'a lie told often enough becomes truth' school of thought?

If you go through the threads in this forum you will see it throughout, they are not serious discussions, but mostly consist of the Masons mocking the posters, and even the concept of criticizing them. Where is the discussion?

There are numerous threads where actual discussion takes place, try searching harder.

Try looking for the threads that weren't created with an unfounded, wild accusation, or plagiarised material - that's a good bet.

You'll find that people asking honest questions in a respectful manner are treated quite differently than those who presume to know everything there is to know about the subject of secret societies just because they've read two books and can remember the name of Albert Pike in casual conversation.

The Mason-Moderators have really ruined this forum, I don't see how this forum can function if it is going to be controlled by Freemasons deleting and banning at their pleasure with no oversight. It is really bizarre.

I disagree. I think the moderators do everything they can to prevent this place from degenerating into a giant carnival of ignorance led by self-appointed scholar-clowns who, despite ostensibly having access to super-secret information and centuries-old secrets, still can't manage to muster the common decency and respect we demand of household pets.

As far as your claim that all this is done with no oversight - you're wrong. Flat-out wrong. The moderators of this site work as a team.

I'm not a mason, BTW. I'm a nobody. I just care about the ideals of this place, and one of those ideals is the denial of ignorance.

So when someone comes along with an obvious agenda, and tries to use this community as a soap-box to advance that agenda, and won't even make a passing effort to adhere to the standards we've set - we do our job and we clean house. I won't apologize for that, and I hope none of my fellows will either.

For those of us with a genuine interest in the facts, there's nothing more frustrating than having to deal with the same people, over and over again, who make it their mission in life to muddy the waters as much as possible. Ughh...