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My response?

This isn't a first- or even a second-level comment, first of all, and I link to a discussion with a classicist, at one link, on Christian population, and to discussion by Biblical scholars on another link within it.

I was advised at Goodreads when this sub was suggested ...

And, I started my own sub, too ...

And, of course, I've also blogged about him being a Nazi. And, that's why I started this sub.

And his response, to which I shall not counter-respond. First, he makes assumptions about "our readership." Second, maybe I have personalized this, but so has he, and had he, from his previous response. We've been through this before. Also, other sites that are technically blogs and by people who aren't currently in academia have been allowed on the site, even as first-level comments. (They're good, but they're "individual scholar" level if the have graduate theological degrees, which many do not.)  And so, Naugi's claim all comments are moderated the same? BS.

I also posted in the subreddit "Biblical Critics" that I started as well as my Reddit homepage.

A few hours later, I found out I had been banned! And, Naugrith or one of the other mods, also perhaps a mod there, got me banned from AskBibleScholars as well.

I can supposedly still read, but can't post or comment.

Later, one of the other mods, an older-in-experience mod, claimed I was "way messed up."

Wrong. Dude was snide from the start, as I have evidence of in my original post. The one mistake I made, "Rye," was not reporting him to you and other moderators at the time. Let me also add that I was not alone in objecting to his heavy-handedness. You and others surely saw that and ... said and did nothing. (Rye's also been blocked.)

Otherwise?  I linked to a Quora piece about toxic moderators. I chose "Nazi," and "on the spectrum" (that was actually first) as specific sarcastic descriptors. Just for Rye, I'll now add "anal-retentive." Beyond it, you can find PLENTY of other discussions on the web, even within Reddit, of suck-ass moderators. (Although a member for five-plus years, I've only been active the past six months, so I'm still learning. For others, here's what mods can and can't do.)

Otherwise, re the Nazi saying, in essence, it's just a blog? "Is That in the Bible" is just a blog, and it has pieces from it regularly posted, not just as second- or third-level comments, but first-level ones. Also re You Know Who, you have to read well into one of its pieces to see a link to someone else. Paul Davidson is good, but it's just a blog, and he doesn't even have a professional background.

One part of me says, hey, go there still and write screeds about them. 

Well, a year or so ago, I thought about doing that with Open Sky after Patheos had shut its atheism vertical and it was formed in response.

But, after doing that for a month?

• I decided to stop wasting my time
• I realized I'm not that good a hater.

That said, on Reddit, I have blocked Naugrith already. And some others.