Generally speaking, since it's their board they can pretty much do what they want to. But on most popular boards, they generally stick by their Code of Conduct. When they banned any further discussion of OS 012, did they mention which rule that you had broken?
Perhaps, this one?:
3. No Spam. Spam will be removed without notice. Anything that looks like spam will be removed without notice. Any thread attempting to proselytize will be removed without notice. If the same new topic is posted to two different forums, both copies will be removed without notice.
dear sir. I was discussing a dialectic on a philosophy forum for almost a year. I dont see how you can define discussing a dialectic on a philosophy forum for over a year as spam. I am not selling anything, nor am I apart of any organization.
In case you dont know, dialectic is a tool often used by philosophers in debate, so it is natural that i would discuss dialectic on such a forum.
also, the moderator and owner of the forum posted his own thread about OS 012 challenging it. I met his challenge and resolved Zeno's paradox per his request, as well as argued his other assumptions to the place where there simply was no rational rebuttal.
lol, so if I am guilty of spam, sir, so is he.
Or, maybe, this one?
# If a member is repeatedly annoying, they may be asked to stop or have their allowed posts limited (but not banned), even if the particular way in which they are annoying is not covered in these rules.
I was never asked to stop anything ever. I engaged in polite discussion in a novel and funny way. My thread was the most popular thread there, being at the top for 11 months straight.
sorry, try again.
EDITED: their search function seems slightly broken. I can't even find the word 'dialectic' in their forums.
EDITED FURTHER: AH, Ok, you're Tumbleman. Now I can see your posts. Ah. Ok. Yeesh.
yes. I posted as tumbleman and I discussed this dialectic in relationship to western philosophy on a philosophy forum, so?
troll appears to be a meaningless term that anyone can throw at someone in a deceptive manner to identify them as not having anything valuable or worthwhile to say. Since I contributed and began the most popular thread at that forum, and have many friends made there, your post here sir is what is commonly called 'false and misleading'.
If you wish to see the effectivness of the dialectic, or challenge it's princaples, go the the forum on the site, challenge it's princaples using the soundest of reason and critical thinking. If you cant or you wont, then I can assume then that your unable to back your words with any relevancy.
Usually people who do that are refrenced as trolls, oddly enough.
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