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Inappropriate Flagging... Mindgirl posted a very inappropriate attack on Christians and Christianity. Mindgirl or her friends then took offense at my responses to her attacks and appear to have flagged my responses because they began disappearing one by one.

This kind of flagging is not proper or appropriate. It is a form of attack upon an individual for no better reason than she does not like what I have to say but is incapable of carrying on a civil debate or responding to honest and straight-forward questions asked in a civil and respectful manner.

I have been a long time very active member of EP. I strongly resent this kind of behavior against me. If EP cannot establish fair and equitable means of dealing with this issue, I will leave EP as have many of my conservative and moderate friends who are no longer willing to put up with unfounded attacks by anarchists, extreme liberals, and others who incite people to anger and then refuse to honestly debate them by flagging them.

This is unacceptable and unconscionable behavior.

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westsideblues1

All I did was say that her positions on several issues were irrational and irreconcilable. No curse words, epithets, name-calling

gypsy...>Are postion may be as you put it " irrational and irreconcilable." to you, but not to us and many others...

Lickitysplit · 70-79, M

gypsyblu --I certainly understand that. People have the right to their own opinions and to disagree with one another. You can disagree with me and I with you. You can choose to debate or argue with me and I with you. All of that is perfectly acceptable. We may never agree on some points, one of us may convince the other on some points, or one or the other of us may change our mind for some other reason. For example, my entire thinking process and beliefs regarding homosexuality have changed over the last several years. Not that I ever had a problem with anyone who was gay, or acted in any way less than courteously to those I knew to be gay; But my thinking about a lot of subtexts regarding homosexuality, gay rights etc. have changed.

All of that said, no one has the right, or should have the right to "Flag" someone with whom they disagree. That erases everything they said. That ends communication and the opportunity to learn, to reason, and yes, to even change someone's mind. When you "Flag" someone, you are telling the EP system that that person has violated the written EP Terms of Service. You are not supposed to "Flag" someone just because the two of you disagree. It is a form of censorship and is in fact against the rules of the Terms of Service of EP, for which you can be banished from EP.

westsideblues1

All of that said, no one has the right, or should have the right to "Flag" someone with whom they disagree

gypsy... yes i get that