<p>"DO NOT tell me what to do." "Don't read them." "Take it up with the person who caused the thread to deviate in the first place."</p>
<p>What's that smell?</p>
<p>Oh, yeah. Hypocrisy.</p>
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"DO NOT tell me what to do." "Don't read them." "Take it up with the person who caused the thread to deviate in the first place."</p>
<p>What's that smell?</p>
<p>Oh, yeah. Hypocrisy.
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<p>I don't see any hypocrisy whatsoever. I didn't cause the thread to deviate. You don't like thread deviation? Take it up with the guy (Pennpenn) who actually caused the thread to deviate.</p>
<p>And besides, I'm simply telling r&b to respect the principle of free speech. We all have the right to express our opinions. Nobody has the right to tell anybody else that they can't post.</p>
<p>So what's that smell, kyledavid80? Oh yeah, the smell of inaccuracy. You're inaccurate in your accusations.</p>
<p>I'm sorry you couldn't see the hypocrisy. You're looking too much into what I said.</p>
<p>You, on many, many occasions (I've seen it throughout the forums), have told people not to command you. Yet in doing so, you're commanding them. "DO NOT tell me what to do." (And you've said that commanding others to do something is in violation of the TOS.) See?</p>
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You, on many, many occasions (I've seen it throughout the forums), have told people not to command you. Yet in doing so, you're commanding them. "DO NOT tell me what to do." (And you've said that commanding others to do something is in violation of the TOS.) See?
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<p>Uh, no, I think that YOU don't see the real problem. </p>
<p>The board rests on the principle of free speech. Everybody has the right to express their opinions. I never tell anybody else that they can't post their opinions. Everybody has the right to post their opinions. But I also have the right to post mine. And just like I don't infringe on other people's rights to post their opinions, nobody should be infringing on my right to post my opinion. </p>
<p>Now, if you want to say that my command in response to a command is 'hypocrisy', then so be it. But that misses the larger issue that if you get punched, you have the right to punch back. The REAL issue is the preservation of the principle of free speech. We either respect free speech, or we don't.</p>
<p>Otherwise, why even have a discussion board at all? What's the point, if people are not allowed to express their opinions freely? If certain people can instruct other people to stop posting (hence, muzzling free speech), then we might as well not even have a discussion board. The whole point of the board is to be able to read and discuss a wide range of opinions.</p>
<p>What are you talking about? You've argued this before, and it is ineffective now as it was then.</p>
<p>"And just like I don't infringe on other people's rights to post their opinions, nobody should be infringing on my right to post my opinion."</p>
<p>What? Infringing on your rights would be somehow barring you from posting; telling you not to post certain content isn't "infringing" on your rights. And by that logic, sakky, an administrator banning you temporarily is taking away your "freedom of speech."</p>
<p>"Now, if you want to say that my command in response to a command is 'hypocrisy', then so be it."</p>
<p>There are times when you tell someone not to command you even when they didn't command you not to post. Hell, you did it to me when I first started posting here at CC.</p>
<p>"Otherwise, why even have a discussion board at all? What's the point, if people are not allowed to express their opinions freely?"</p>
<p>Indeed, you can post your thoughts on a discussion board. But discussion boards have a degree of unspoken etiquette, and that etiquette dictates that you post relevant information in a given topic. From red&blue's viewpoint, you were posting irrelevant information. (I am not saying you did, as I'm not deep into this discussion; I'm simply stating a point.)</p>
<p>"If certain people can instruct other people to stop posting (hence, muzzling free speech), then we might as well not even have a discussion board. The whole point of the board is to be able to read and discuss a wide range of opinions."</p>
<p>So, if a person were to come here and say, "FREE NOKIA PHONES!! LIMITED TIME ONLY!!!!" and one were to say, "Stop posting," you'd think that'd be out of line? Or, a better example, if the person were here posting ludicrous topics ("No blacks should go to college," etc.), and one were to tell him to stop posting, you don't think that's out of line? I'd say such a reply is a bit nice. These are, of course, extreme examples, but the principle rests. In this case, red&blue finds that you are trolling for Harvard Business School, so he found such a reply to be appropriate.</p>
<p>At any rate, criticism seems to bounce off you easily, so why don't you just ignore such "commands" that seem to perturb you so much, and instead take the meat out of the opposition's argument? Just a suggestion (not a command).</p>