| | Sarah said: "Some may agree with you, but it's become common for sanctions to flow freely to those without their first Atlas thingy so as to get them off of moderation. Given that you've repeatedly ignored my, and others, requests to give something other than generalized character attacks, I think that practice should be rethought."
Please do. Our moderation system is there for a reason. If we wanted people to have unlimited access to the site immediately, we would. When people decide to be "benevolent", bypassing the system, they just open the site up to this kind of filth.
I put "benevolent" in scare quotes because this guy showed his true colors from his first post. He showed a gross lack of understanding of Objectivism and economics. He slandered an entire group without a hint of evidence. And he attacked again and again and again. The only sign of openness to reason he displayed was when he demanded at the beginning it be posted or it would prove he was right, and that's not exactly a sign of reason. You have to ignore all of that in order to still give him the benefit of the doubt. He showed up and spit on us all, and people tried to be nice. At some point, being nice isn't "benevolent", it's masochism.
People should have said "this guy sounds like a fruit-loop", and maybe decided to engage him just to be sure if they had time to waste. But throwing Atlas points his way? He sounds like a raving nut-job, so let's give him unlimited access to the place so we can be sure!
Please, please don't try to bypass the moderation policy. It just means that I have to go in and manually moderate him (which I did...and now I've inactivated him). If we find that "benevolence" keeps letting these people through, we'll have to make a change to the system to prevent it. That may mean removing certain people's ability to sanction. Or it may mean putting everyone under moderation until the owners decide otherwise.
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