SHOOTING at the OLYMPICS

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Originally Posted by AndyJWest

And we get even further evidence that Nearmiss and co are monumentally ignorant about the very topic they go on about.

Meanwhile, Nearmiss has sent be a PM telling me to "go back to that thread and delete those postings very quietly or be banned". I have no intention of doing so. Instead, I shall be contacting 1C directly, asking them whether they consider it appropriate that 'moderators' (LOL!) abuse what is allegedly a 'no-politics' forum to push offensive and paranoid partisan politics, and gloat on the death of teenagers. I expect that Nearmiss will abuse his position further by banning me, and quite likely by trying to erase all evidence of his gross misuse of his powers from the forum. I suggest that all those who are of a similar opinion as me likewise contact 1C directly, and also call for Nearmiss's dismissal. It cannot possibly be in 1C's interest to have a forum already troubled by trolls and the like further inflamed by such behaviour. This has nothing to do with any 1C product, and as an 'off-topic' subject falls entirely within the "Political and religious discussions are prohibited" rule supposedly enforced here. Evidently though, what the rule means to Nearmiss (and sadly, other moderators too, it appears) is that "Political and religious discussions are prohibited unless the moderators support the politics being pushed".

Of course, if 1C actually are in favour of allowing their so-called 'moderators' to use forums for pro-gun political propaganda of the most vile kind (tinted by at least suspicions of overt racism on the part of several other contrubutors: e.g. " these lower life forms will be removed from the DNA pool because of lead poisoning"), one would have to ask whether one should be supporting the company by buying their products. I very much doubt that they are (it would make little sense from an economic viewpoint), but I will have to see how they respond - and if necessary raise this elsewhere. I'm quite sure that sections of the media would be interested to see how an industry that claims (with at least some evidence in support of their position) that 'in-game' violence does not promote violence in the real world could be encouraging the facile and uncaring celebration of such violence, along with racism, xenophobia, paranoia, and all the other garbage that accompanies this world view.

Haha hey so why was this thread created anyway? It was worded in such a way to make one think a shooting happened. It wasn't to discuss a shooting sport at the Olympics.

As the OP so pointed out his hope was to elicit some debate on the UN small arms treaty which failed today and will never apply to anyone individual anyway.

Good job moderators in allowing discussion anyway.