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This is my official submitted review for the DebateFaith stickam chat room.
It is an anti-theist/atheist debate chat.
And, must I say - it is worse than Shocks' chat.
No, this is no joke. Not satire, either.
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I was using the handle AnIncredibleUniverse
From the moment I entered, I was asked if I was an atheist. When I responded "No" the shitstorm began.
I was, from the start, given shit about not being atheist like they were, and I haven't even booted up my mic yet. Then another user, vonfrankenstein rolled in, and then the shit really began flying.
I can laugh at some sentiments SOME of the time - and some arguments ARE funny. However, there's a point where people are just being flat-out annoying cunts, and that was displayed prominently by not only the members, but the staff of the chat room. There was constant verbal harassment and mistreatment of anyone who did not agree with their viewpoint - and calling the atheists whom dared to tell them to quit behaving terrible that they were called "Pansies" and told to "Man Up."
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For example, there was a break where there was some nice and casual conversation. We were discussing when the sun would burn out. The man said something like "5 Million Years" - which, I assumed that he just didn't get. Immediately, the admin ("DebateFaith") hops on the mic and starts ramming into the conversation and steamrolling it about 5 BILLION years.
After I pointed out it was just an audible problem, and that it really wasn't the point anyhow because the conversation was the probable end of the Universe, he says (and I quote from recording):
"I FUCKING CARE because we can't have people running around that believe in nonsense trying to change facts!"
:I
I promptly muted him, and continued my conversation.
Later on (I had unmuted him when he stopped his childish ranting) the conversation came up where I was having a discussion about "Does it really matter if a person has a faith?" where we were discussing chat. He had been a prick all night, so it did not surprise me in the least when his response to why he had a problem with Religion was "Every single time I point out to them IN THEIR FACES where they are wrong they just snub at me and call me names!"
Mind you, he had been swearing and cursing anyone who had a faith all night. And he had been steamrolling the conversation all night.
I pointed him out on 2 things:
1) He should put on his big-girl panties and move on.
2) That, based upon my simple observances from one night of conversing, they were probably calling him "Mean Names" because when he did it he was being a douche and just yelling at their faces about it.
I was immediately kicked off the mic and told that insulting and language was not allowed by the moderator "soul_111."
Meh. Okay - now they're just being uneven in their distribution of threats. But I'm okay.
Another observation I had about the chat room was melodrama with the analogies. We all know that there's some laughs to be had with the Santa Claus / Transformers (yeah, that one was hysterical) / FSM / Easter Bunny references - but there's a point between the steamrolling of conversations, the attitude, and the bullshit that it loses it's humor and suddenly becomes just plain fucktarded. And it starts at about 30 seconds in their ranting sprees.
Then later, the admin starts ranting on about something else that was no even the point of the conversation, and I remarked that and simply said "I should mute you, because you're acting like a ranting 4 year old."
"Oh, mute me? You don't mute ME!"
I was banned for 24 hours.
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I have been to Shocks' room. Shock's chat is, at the very least, somewhat civilized - and when you're talking about something people don't steamroll you (most of the time) especially when they are being in casual debate with one of the non-mods. There is, at the very least, a line of courtesy. And, in Shock's chat, you can mute the mic freely without fear of retribution by whining 4 year-olds with admin powers.
And this chat is doing this all in the name of Rationality and Reason. :evil:
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tl;dr?
I would rather eat my socks than walk into that chat room again.
Here's the link for my ranting review: http://www.stickam.com/debatefaith
It is an anti-theist/atheist debate chat.
And, must I say - it is worse than Shocks' chat.
No, this is no joke. Not satire, either.
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I was using the handle AnIncredibleUniverse
From the moment I entered, I was asked if I was an atheist. When I responded "No" the shitstorm began.
I was, from the start, given shit about not being atheist like they were, and I haven't even booted up my mic yet. Then another user, vonfrankenstein rolled in, and then the shit really began flying.
I can laugh at some sentiments SOME of the time - and some arguments ARE funny. However, there's a point where people are just being flat-out annoying cunts, and that was displayed prominently by not only the members, but the staff of the chat room. There was constant verbal harassment and mistreatment of anyone who did not agree with their viewpoint - and calling the atheists whom dared to tell them to quit behaving terrible that they were called "Pansies" and told to "Man Up."
===========================================
For example, there was a break where there was some nice and casual conversation. We were discussing when the sun would burn out. The man said something like "5 Million Years" - which, I assumed that he just didn't get. Immediately, the admin ("DebateFaith") hops on the mic and starts ramming into the conversation and steamrolling it about 5 BILLION years.
After I pointed out it was just an audible problem, and that it really wasn't the point anyhow because the conversation was the probable end of the Universe, he says (and I quote from recording):
"I FUCKING CARE because we can't have people running around that believe in nonsense trying to change facts!"
:I
I promptly muted him, and continued my conversation.
Later on (I had unmuted him when he stopped his childish ranting) the conversation came up where I was having a discussion about "Does it really matter if a person has a faith?" where we were discussing chat. He had been a prick all night, so it did not surprise me in the least when his response to why he had a problem with Religion was "Every single time I point out to them IN THEIR FACES where they are wrong they just snub at me and call me names!"
Mind you, he had been swearing and cursing anyone who had a faith all night. And he had been steamrolling the conversation all night.
I pointed him out on 2 things:
1) He should put on his big-girl panties and move on.
2) That, based upon my simple observances from one night of conversing, they were probably calling him "Mean Names" because when he did it he was being a douche and just yelling at their faces about it.
I was immediately kicked off the mic and told that insulting and language was not allowed by the moderator "soul_111."
Meh. Okay - now they're just being uneven in their distribution of threats. But I'm okay.
Another observation I had about the chat room was melodrama with the analogies. We all know that there's some laughs to be had with the Santa Claus / Transformers (yeah, that one was hysterical) / FSM / Easter Bunny references - but there's a point between the steamrolling of conversations, the attitude, and the bullshit that it loses it's humor and suddenly becomes just plain fucktarded. And it starts at about 30 seconds in their ranting sprees.
Then later, the admin starts ranting on about something else that was no even the point of the conversation, and I remarked that and simply said "I should mute you, because you're acting like a ranting 4 year old."
"Oh, mute me? You don't mute ME!"
I was banned for 24 hours.
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I have been to Shocks' room. Shock's chat is, at the very least, somewhat civilized - and when you're talking about something people don't steamroll you (most of the time) especially when they are being in casual debate with one of the non-mods. There is, at the very least, a line of courtesy. And, in Shock's chat, you can mute the mic freely without fear of retribution by whining 4 year-olds with admin powers.
And this chat is doing this all in the name of Rationality and Reason. :evil:
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tl;dr?
I would rather eat my socks than walk into that chat room again.
Here's the link for my ranting review: http://www.stickam.com/debatefaith