Hey, y'all! Happy Independence Day!
I am not a mod, but...
This isn't a "family site" so much as there are a lot of <18 users here. Not Club Penguin volumes, but quite a few.
We don't want to bite newcomers or frighten them off. OTOH, we definitely are interested in according senior members with greater latitude.
There have been some truly terrible flame wars here. Too many "master races" in one place, I suppose. And putting out a camp fire is always easier than putting out a forest fire.
Finally, because it happens behind the scenes, people generally don't know that a LOT of back-and-forth discussion happens before any moderation or admin action is taken. Behind the scenes, this is a Libertarian forum with the least-restrictive limits we could think of that prevent flame wars, personal attacks, and fraud.
Contrary to his earlier post, mkawa isn't Hitler. But sometimes he plays him on this forum.
Again, let's all go light fireworks tonight (in your region). Here in California it is fully sanctioned. I'd be interested in the results if some of our Ukranian members did the same. (Please don't!)
The above was just my $.02, but it was an informed $.02.
- Ron | samwisekoi
Yeah, I know mkawa was only joking, but nobody should be compared to Hitler, even as a joke. And the master race jokes are in really bad taste as well. I just assume people don't really know what they are saying when they joke about that stuff. Hitler was not some guy who ran a keyboard forum with low tolerance for flamers and trolls. Hitler was a mass-murdering sociopath. Hitler was responsible for WW2 which killed 60 million people world wide.
However, if you want to know how many Hitler killed with specific intent with his death camps and execution squads, the numbers are as follows:
5.1–6.0 million Jews, including 3.0–3.5 million Polish Jews
1.8 –1.9 million non-Jewish Poles (includes all those killed in executions or those that died in prisons, labor, and concentration camps, as well as civilians killed in the 1939 invasion and the 1944 Warsaw Uprising)
500,000–1.2 million Serbs killed by Croat Nazis
200,000–800,000 Roma & Sinti
200,000–300,000 people with disabilities
80,000–200,000 Freemasons
Wait, there's more:
1–1.5 million political dissidents - All Germans
100,000 communists - All Germans
10,000–25,000 homosexual men - All Germans
2,000 Jehovah's Witnesses - All Germans
Still more:
3.5–6 million other Slavic civilians
2.5–4 million Soviet POWs
There are more, but I think you get the point. Plus, I'm getting depressed writing this, so I have to stop now. If you compare any forum moderator to Hitler, you are a monumentally ignorant @$$h0le is all I can say.
