"Could you kindly reskewer?"

[Marcus]

...It might be nice, however, under the circumstances, if people would politely engage with him a bit, maybe ask him a question or thank him for the information...

They do. Repeatedly. I read multiple such posts on the LDS growth blog referred to earlier. Lambert was upset at certain posts, but in the threads I read, people repeatedly were supportive, either thanking him or telling others to lay off. Even the owner of the blog, If I recall correctly, said there was plenty of room for comments and he was okay with Lambert's posts. Unfortunately, Lambert didn't talk about those posts, only the ones where he felt like he was being attacked.

[Marcus]

So, DCP is not allowing gemli to comment, but is quoting his deleted comments--which only he can verify are accurate-- and then he is responding to pieces of those deleted comments in his posts? Wow. That's dishonest. I'm sure patheos approves of that.

[drumdude]

So, DCP is not allowing gemli to comment, but is quoting his deleted comments--which only he can verify are accurate-- and then he is responding to pieces of those deleted comments in his posts? Wow. That's dishonest. I'm sure patheos approves of that.

Imagine if we were doing that to MG here. Shadow banning him, and only quoting select passages from his posts.

Of course, we have to trust that DCP is accurately representing him, and that DCP’s astounding technological illiteracy is all that is preventing Gemli from being allowed to speak for himself.

[Marcus]

So, DCP is not allowing gemli to comment, but is quoting his deleted comments--which only he can verify are accurate-- and then he is responding to pieces of those deleted comments in his posts? Wow. That's dishonest. I'm sure patheos approves of that.

Imagine if we were doing that to MG here. Shadow banning him, and only quoting select passages from his posts.

Of course, we have to trust that DCP is accurately representing him, and that DCP’s astounding technological illiteracy is all that is preventing Gemli from being allowed to speak for himself.

Exactly. And gemli's voice doesn't really come through on those quotes, do you think? He didn't use multiple slashes between words like "systems/designer/programmer", that's a gymnast move. "Sheesh" isn't a gemli word either.

Mentalgymnast has used the word "sheesh" here over a dozen times in the last year, however. Is there a pattern unfolding?

[I Have Questions]

The poster calling himself "gemli" joined this board 4620 days ago. I shadow-banned him a year or so back.

He refused to read, refused to learn, refused to engage. He simply reiterated his atheistic position, slogan-style, over and over and over again.

The repetition simply grew too wearisome to be endured, and he seemed, frankly, to be sneering more than he once had. I had had enough.

He's commented a couple of times in the interim but has now posted three comments since late last night. He seems eager to return.

After months of absence, gemli has attempted to treat us to a reiteration of his creed.

How much effort should I expend to try to allow gemli to comment here again?

With any luck? Zero.

How would gemli be keen to return when, as a result of shadow banning, he would be blissfully unaware that he’d left?

[drumdude]

Imagine if we were doing that to MG here. Shadow banning him, and only quoting select passages from his posts.

Of course, we have to trust that DCP is accurately representing him, and that DCP’s astounding technological illiteracy is all that is preventing Gemli from being allowed to speak for himself.

Exactly. And gemli's voice doesn't really come through on those quotes, do you think? He didn't use multiple slashes between words like "systems/designer/programmer", that's a gymnast move. "Sheesh" isn't a gemli word either.

Mentalgymnast has used the word "sheesh" here over a dozen times in the last year, however. Is there a pattern unfolding?

If Gemli has really decided to post on SeN again, I would suspect he may have some brain damage.

[Marcus]

Exactly. And gemli's voice doesn't really come through on those quotes, do you think? He didn't use multiple slashes between words like "systems/designer/programmer", that's a gymnast move. "Sheesh" isn't a gemli word either.

Mentalgymnast has used the word "sheesh" here over a dozen times in the last year, however. Is there a pattern unfolding?

If Gemli has really decided to post on SeN again, I would suspect he may have some brain damage.

Lol, we would hope not, but maybe our thread here revived his interest in Hitchens-bashers!!

I doubt he even posted, however, for the same reason that I always doubted the provenance of the crazy emails DCP used to post from his decades long, multiple times daily (?) stalker. Maybe he is doing the same here and just recreating 'likely' posts from gemli, to generate some interest. You know, like how that atlanta-based apologist, Nygren, came into being.

[MG 2.0]

Imagine if we were doing that to MG here...Shadow banning him, and only quoting select passages from his posts.

Yeah, imagine.

Ellipses anyone?

Regards,
MG

I use ellipses often, to isolate what I might be referring to while knocking out text that doesn’t apply to the response. In this case, the text replaced by the ellipsis changes the content and focus of the original quote enough that it should remain in place. Appropriate point, though. -c-

[Marcus]

With any luck? Zero.

How would gemli be keen to return when, as a result of shadow banning, he would be blissfully unaware that he’d left?

he might suspect something. DCP quoting the very words he tells us he needs to ban is fairly suspicious.

[Moksha]

Allowing Gemli to post would make SeN less dormant as well as decrease the echo chamber effect. DCP deserves to maintain his blog free from challenge and reason.