The anti-KJ hate team recruitement

[redietz]

One thing that has struck me lately. I had assumed, incorrectly as it turned out, that the WoV site had some "left" bias to it. I had never participated there, but after signing up and posting 50 times, it was clear that the most frequent posters were all "right" leaning. My assumptions regarding the site had been colored by what "Singer" and mickey had posted here. The mods may come off as left at WoV, but that's because they are continually reigning in the right leaning posters.

Total crock of shit, Redietz. The biased moderation was an open joke with members. The one member that took way more abuse than any other was AZDuffman. He put together well crafted conservative arguments. It drove Babs and the lefties batshit crazy. Babs allowed the lefties to openly insult him for a reason. She needed a reason to get rid of him. If they could piss him off to the point he insulted them back she could get rid of him. He took all the insults in stride and kept coming with the well crafted conservative arguments. When SHE tried to debate him he very politely destroyed all of her arguments. It drove Babs nuts and she started chiming in with the insults.

Her last insult to him she called him pond scum. Shack jumped in and suspended her. A frickin' moderator got suspended for insults. As a matter of fact, Shack, getting complaints behind the scenes, was already jumping in and suspending lefties because Babs wouldn't do her job. He obviously was giving her a clue. She never got a clue from that and still wouldn't do her job correctly.

The political threads were taken down speciifically because of Babs favoritism for the lefties, and not cleaning it up.

Actually, I was there for the taking down of the political threads and may have been part of the reason. I can state unequivocally that your description of the sequence of events and the whys of it are simply wrong.

Basically, if you go over and review the threads, certain right-leaning posters were placing the quotes of righties who had been banned in their posts. That somehow evaded the rules and regs, so the people simply quoting the language that caused bannings were not themselves banned. I asked the question as to why this is, and I then self banned because it was allowing certain posters to get away with saying inappropriate things by quoting the previous people (now banned) who had said them.

The owners of the forum read all of this. They also read that I had self-banned. I doubt if my self-banning mattered much, but it may have. Evidently that is a rarity -- a new poster with a decent blog and 40 years in the business signs up, posts some useful stuff, then self-bans because the rules are a mess.

Be that as it may, the owners canned the political threads. Babs was suspended because she called Shackleford out for allowing the repeated use of banned quotes without banning the people abusing the rules. She basically asked to be suspended.

So that is actually what happened. I don't know where you came up with your summary of what happened, but it's wrong.

Anybody interested should just track down the thread at WoV and see for themselves. I assume the thread is locked but available. Maybe not. I haven't been back there since.