I'm voting YES. You go, girl !!!!

should i vote ?

Sure. Why not?

Sheesh - it must be the heat.

We do have the un-friend option - also called foe.

If certain keyboard cretins wish to spew forth - and YOU do not wish to read their idiotic bytes - then go un-friend them.

Why do we need a poll to decide who can post here?

If someone crosses the line - then they get banned. I can not ever remember a lifetime ban on Info - and my guess is that in negotiations with admin - those sent to banned camp are allowed back in a some point.

I have been banned a few times - but have always managed to negotiate my way back.

I do have serious objections to people who have been banned being allowed back in under new nicks - or being ignored by admins when they sign up with new nicks. Especially those who have been banned multiple times for insulting and rude behavior.

I have the feeling that when I get up in the AM - this thread will be gone.

Sorry Ed, but it is insulting to the rest of us on here.

Phil

Couldn't you tell that my 'poll' is just taking a jab at Raider's elitist/authoritarian posts.


That sounds so 'authoritarian'.




How so?

Ed

Has as much right as anyone else on here. There was no need going postal on her either for having her own opinion on that other thread!

It must be slow gossip day on the forum to go here

It seems like over the last year or two 90% of the postings that bring out the worst in everyone are originated by sherbal. Maybe it is she(?) who needs to be banned rather than the people who lose their cool over her blathering on and on and on and on about conspiracies. And frankly sometimes her(?) posts are dangerous in their misinformation (see the one about flouride) and NEED to be disputed. Probably it would be better if people could keep their cool and debate with her in a calm reasoned manner. But I can understand why people would feel like they are talking to a brick wall and get frustrated. Aren't there a ton of boards out there on the internet where people can discuss conspiracy theories? Why is saherbal using peiinfo for this purpose? Just to provoke people?

More likely she actually believes she is "educating" people. That's what makes these people dangerous.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I don't think saherbal should be banned.
I also don't think people who expose the lies for what they are should be banned.

When has this happened?
Why does this happen?
How does this happen?
etc etc etc....

Even though I don't agree with a lot of what Saherbel posts doesn't mean she shouldn't be allowed to express herself (himself?). I'm sure when she (going to use she, sorry if I am wrong) posts she understands that she is going to get some questions/backlash with what she is posting. As long as she can accept this then there is no reason to be having this conversation. Although I do agree that some people have taking questioning/disproving a little to far.

That might be an indicator that we need to mature.

Why the ban?

To appease the people who are scared to think outside the box?

To appease the people who can't control their emotions - or don't have enough brains to realize there are other opinions out there?

Or to appease the people, who are trying to "protect" the dumb-asses out there who believe everything they read on the Internet is true and may harm themselves?

Hey, here's a thought, lets ban based on eyecolor, heritage, lastnames, soci-economic status, politics, real Islander status etc.

You get the pt.

Nobody is being banned.

But on the flip side..If she posts something, even if it is something that seems way out there....why do you not think the rest of us are not smart enough to decide for ourselves if it is true/silly/dangerous etc. ?

I have no issues with someone saying they thing a comment was silly/ stupid /dangerous etc, its when they take a shot at the person and call them a fool etc.

Now have I done it.....? In all honesty it would not shock me if i did......I find that some threads bring out the worst sometimes...If I know someone usually gets on my nerves I TRY to read around them......but I don't think anyone has issues with exposing the lies......i think its how its done.....and again.....yes, I'm guilty on that one too. Not so much with saherbal but others.....( I know I did it last week to someone but have no idea who I said it to, I don't tend to remember peoples handles unless I know them personally )

the title of the poll is Does Saherbal have a right to post her opinions here?,

Assuming that is the question, not being able to post your opinion, would in effect be a ban?

So now the post spirals into semantics and diction

It's not a matter of not thinking the "rest" are not smart enough to assimilate the information it's a matter of knowing that there is a tiny minority of people out there who are potentially dangerous and reading so much disinformation can trigger bad outcomes.

Look at the recent shooting at the Sikh temple.
This scumbag was a racist. That racism is not inherent it is learned. If more people had spoken out about racism in this person's life this massacre could have been avoided.

What are we going to get from certain factions instead? Just stay tuned for when the nutjob conspiracy sites do their updates.
saherbal will be here to report how this guy worked for the US government or some other entity and was a pawn in the gun control game.

What would be nice is if we could just agree to try and keep the PEI Talk forum polite. There is plenty of opportunity in the political debates forum to carry out your forum wars, on PEI Talk just ignore each other or be polite if you really need to respond.

This forum is a discussion forum, with mostly PEI themes. If the topics posted by saherbal or any other member are valid topics or replies to topics, I feel they should be included. I like reading the conspiracy theory stuff a lot, it's good to know, and sometimes good entertainment when the theories are 'way out there' lol. If you don't agree with someone, don't attack them for it, bring some arguments to the table and prove them wrong. You may actually be doing them a favor, if they were misguided by bad information, you may set them on the right path to the correct information about the topic.

That is so wildly inaccurate. Tolerance and inclusion has been rammed down our throats for the last thirty years, while he is a racist, more accurately he is mentally ill, adn you cant legislate or censor crazy.

Anyone who bases their opinions solely on one or two postings in a discussion board needs to be banned, not the poster.