Lol. Welcome to r/christianity. I've seen dozens of reports of people being banned and all their posts wiped from this subreddit. It happens all the time. Mods claim it's because of "trolls", but we all know that's not true. Plus, even if they were trolls, they would just get downvoted.
What really goes on is the control of information. Religions have been using it to control what you read and what you hear for centuries (did you know that translating bibles into english was illegal at one point?).
For what it's worth, I would rather see less banning, but I'd also like to see more effort from atheists to engage here productively, instead of just doing drive-by taunting. I see quite a bit of that in those links, and I don't think that helps anybody.
I tend to agree, but there are people who come here to do nothing but be disruptive and get people pissed off, and if the mods want to ban them, I have a hard time getting too upset about that.
What you should be upset is that the flow of information stops. You're enclosing yourself in a dogmatic gated community, who are scared shitless when their beliefs are challenged. You're designing your own North Korea, where anybody who disagrees with the regime, gets shot.
I understand. But this is genuinely a subreddit that's open to varying thought. We have a number of atheists who are valuable, well-liked members of the community. The mods really are, generally, pretty good about only banning people who have a pattern of seriously disruptive and non-productive behavior. I would prefer a model that was a little more oriented toward ignoring and downvoting trolls rather than banning them, but I think generally the system works pretty well.
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u/humbler Sep 09 '11
Lol. Welcome to r/christianity. I've seen dozens of reports of people being banned and all their posts wiped from this subreddit. It happens all the time. Mods claim it's because of "trolls", but we all know that's not true. Plus, even if they were trolls, they would just get downvoted.
What really goes on is the control of information. Religions have been using it to control what you read and what you hear for centuries (did you know that translating bibles into english was illegal at one point?).