Okay, I was going to just ignore you for what you're doing, but this is the second time you've done it, with the second problem this thread had.
You are not helping, and you do not know how to do it right. And you are making things worse.
Each time you've tried to "moderate", you've placed the blame on me. You haven't been objective; you've just looked at the fact that I was talking about a subject which involved art critique (not even critique of people) and someone reacting emotionally to it, and you decided I'm to blame. That is not how moderation works.
Just stop. You're not the moderator here, and you aren't doing anything that earns the position. You're just egging on people who are already in an emotional state and making it worse.
I think you're arguing in bad faith and are guilty of the same things you're accusing others for in your posts (but for some reason it doesn't apply to you) and are inserting yourself into conversations with an authorative air that makes it easier for you to appear rational when people react "emotionally" to your generalizing and condescending tone, because every time you've done this for the past few days, it's escalated into you threatning to report people because they ultimately don't agree with your interpretation of something.
That's not how arguing or discussing works. You don't get to be all matter-of-fact, then react like everyone's wrong when they're doing similar things. If anything, it reads like you're trying to bait reactions out of people so that you can "shut them down" most of the time.
Just in this very conversation (just like the zoomer one last week, and the South Park one yesterday) you used generalizations, got called out on it, then acted like only the ones you discussed with did. In fact, in this conversation, regardless of fake being hostile, instead of trying to hold a dialogue, you dig yourself deeper by using generalizations and anectodal evidence about a group of people. Fake did the same thing,
after your reply. You even claim yourself that;
"But those are exceptions. The people you know are not a statistical sample. The people you know in any situation, any context, any discussion of any topic are never a statistical sample. Not unless you have literally thousand of friends, which hardly anyone does."
But this somehow doesn't apply to you? Someone challenges your claims, and then suddenly they're the ones who were hostile the entire time, and you leave the conversation.
You don't need to be 100% pragmatic the whole time, not everyone is at the same intellectual/emotional level as others in forums, so stop trying to force everyone to your standard.
Also, I don't see how I ever "screamed" at you. I told fake to calm down, and yesterday I told you to calm down because you were throwing threats around and being increasingly liberal with what constitutes an insult, while Lee was as normal as can be, they just disagreed with you on a cartoon. Both you were risking derailing the thread by continuing. I just stepped in and said that you're going off-topic. That's not "moderating", that's wanting the thread to be healthy.
