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I am unable to read your post or comment because of the following message:-
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It's hard to understand how it could possibly be a humanist value to support the Christian Nationalism, Project 2025, against freedoms of the American people to choose what is right for them as far as love, marriage, family and personal/spiritual identity. Yet there are folks who stand behind a fascist team, willing to sell out our democracy for their own personal gain, foxes guarding the hen house, and wanting to punish women, migrants, anyone who doesn't pledge fealty to their team.
Hard to understand the disconnect between someone creating a site like this, but not also supporting the healthy dialog we need to go forward, not backward or become a totally different nation. I try to be respectful in my dialog, but I have wondered if my technical difficulties might lie in my socio-political leanings.
If we are lucky then it may be just glitches without human influence. I hope.
IF the problem corrects itself by November 5th I think we will all have our answer. As for Donald Trump, he can go shoot himself on Fifth Ave.
If the message was posted in a group, you can navigate directly to the group to try to read the post. That is what I did when I was redirected in the dame way when I tried to access a post in "Feline Fanatics" from the notifications drop down menu.
The site has gotten glitchy over time. I hope @Admin can find the time to so a little site maintenance.
I posted 0ver 20 posts in my groups since 22nd Oct, NONE have shown up in any of my groups, they are gone, kaput poof, disappeared.
@vocaloldfart I've just checked my posts and most of them are gone. Definitely all the political posts over the last month seem to have disappeared. However, there were a few quotes which I posted yesterday which are not political, but have disappeared as well
I think you are unable to see what @Lizard_of_Ahaz (and others) posted because the site admin is censoring content that is critical of Trumpty Dumpty.
I am experiencing a similar problem to that of @Lizard_of_Ahaz. My posts are being delayed and deleted with no explanation.
It's probably no mere coincidence that the content that @Lizard_of_Ahaz and I are not able to post is of a political nature, and critical of Donald J. Trump.
It pains me to have to say it, but given this blatant censorship of fact-based criticism that is backed up with links to reputable news outlets, it appears that the site administrator's claim of being "open-minded and be willing to alter your beliefs with new evidence" is just so much hot air.
Read the room, it's happening to everyone. It's happening to all kinds of posts not just political ones. It happens to mine seconds after posting them, hardly enough time to be censored by an admin. It's a site bug not censorship.
@Tejas Okay, if that is the case, then I stand corrected.
My next question would then be, is there a political dimension to the negligent administration of this site?
Is the general direction of the conversation here not what admin had hoped for, and have they consequently lost interest?
@Flyingsaucesir Tejas is full of shit most of the time...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz I know!
@Flyingsaucesir it's definitely the case 100%. The site has always been free to use the administration doesn't even advertise or ask for donations. So although I understand people's frustration with bugs on the site, I think people should look at the big picture. This site has been going since at least 2017, it's community has dwindled from thousands to hundreds to probably less than 75 active people. The administration has been fairly inactive for a few years now, its no surprise to me that the site is slowly falling apart and it shouldn't surprise anyone else. This site used to have so much activity that the only category I would look at or post in was "polls". If you are asking me do I think it's a political reason why the site owner is not maintaining the site, probably not but who knows. EDIT: most seem to have forgotten this site was originally intended to be a non religious dating site
@Tejas I've had a very few that have had the "Welcome to Community" censorshiip actually appear after a few days most however have disappeared. I've found however that reposting in general and Hello results in the post happening so long as I don't edit it in which case it goes into the stupid "FUTURE" post routine!
I should try posting something like "any cunts out there want shagging? to see if that results in the referral to site behaviour rules!
@Tejas and in that instance it didn't.
@FrayedBear When the FUTURE post thing showed up that was when a lot of this all started for me. Then it got worse going on into what we have now.
I have been sent to that page a few times. The glitches are getting out of control.
Sure are I have not been ab le to post in any of my groups since the 22nd Oct
@vocaloldfart try posting in General & Hello referencing to your group connector