Using the same forum base like TOF leads to old ways how to handle discussions. For example in an off topic discussion people don’t like to listen another off topic and marking off topic. So they use this functionality to block out. They have done it on TOF before and now here. Nice way to do. But this results in a second TOF only without bans linger than two weeks. Nice. On the other side: this is not a democratic forum. It is a forum owned and leased by a single person. Something what leads to the point: it will run like he wants it. So accepting this leads me to: people like this can say what they want about Markus and getting the tip to ignore him. Not the right way.
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Markus:
You seem to believe that I’m interested in engaging in a friendly debate with you. However, I am neither your friend nor interested in becoming one.
It appears you have many personal issues to address. I had no prior knowledge of you until I inquired about your education (a state I would prefer to return to). After reviewing your posts, I noticed a lot of ranting and wondered how someone could develop such perspectives.
When I asked a straightforward question, you responded with a tirade and insults, diverting into a tangent about your mother. A simple answer would have sufficed, but you chose obscenity and irrationality.
A lot of screaming and telling a perfect stranger about issues with your mom is a perfect Freudian case study of mental illness. Perhaps my saying so is “over the top” socially, or perhaps it’s time someone said it straight.
I’ll follow Norm’s advice. You are blocked. Continue your life and rants without me.
/extinction burst
Somehow even I was thinking: what a question. Something polite people are not asking. Not friendly. You should know that asking somebody about his education and implying that he has none is ridiculous at all. And the answer was something I could really understand.
And here you are doing it again:
Beside the fact that Freud is not the one cited for mental diagnosis while nobody works today with his theories you should again know: that is a not acceptable behaviour. I am not Markus friend but I really don’t like that people like you are acting like this.
Normally persons like you should get blocked by this forum. But this would lead to TOF behaviour of this forum what Norman was granting that it will not be so. But. It is not preventing you from being politely asked: how can you dare to ask such a question?
Shit. Thats depressing.
That’s really depressing.
Even more depressing for germany. Inventors and now builded with german technology by chineese companies and in germany: nothing. Technology and scientifics about: stopped.
Oh heck no
We have not banned anyone
But you CAN ignore someone and by doing so YOU choose not to hear them
Remember me? 
… and that I feel is morally wrong and generally “unwise”. Imagine we all ignore Trump or even all Republicans - you end up living in La-La-Land … it’s basically the equivalent of putting your finger in your ears and saying “I can’t hear you!” … which strikes me as pretty childish and woke … or the opposite of what I consider adult …
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing! Have to watch the movie now.
And yes, that is indeed what people outside the US think, ESPECIALLY after dealing with Americans.
And the basic reason: there are two ways to feel great - by BEING Great, or by making everyone else small. America used to do the first, but now does the second. Elite is no longer an aspiration; knowledge is replaced by faith and delusion, and fame by notoriety; mediocrity is celebrated; discussions at University get forbidden because somebody might get upset; diversity is no longer enjoyed but minorities are maligned; and Jesus had a makeover and is now 7 feet tall with blond hair and blue eyes - and FFS keep the foreigners out that don’t look like proper Americans!
I think Jay proved you wrong with his last reply … 
And he seems quite obsessed with my mother for some reason … 
We have NEVER, I repeat NEVER banned anyone
We have applied temporary suspensions of posting privileges
Hair splitting - maybe
Sometimes its the safe way to unplug from a particularly heated situation
It lets a rage turn into something much more calm
Discourse DOES like ignore to have a time limit - although you can set them to be forever
Sometimes the adult thing to do IS to walk away
And now Cast system is making its way into American corporate world (check the CISCO law suite).
Americans have also become expert in stealing from other cultures and putting their name tag on it (Yoga stolen from India and presented in the western world as Christian Yoga).
It’s even worse when they steal the name (Football) and use it for their own (the unimaginatively named American Football aka Rugby for sissies renamed to Football) and put a new name (Soccer) on the one they stole it from
As far as i’m aware, Soccer is actually a British word which fell out of use for the name football.
For details see
How about we call American Football ‘Fumbleball’? Or given all that armour maybe ‘Sissyball’? 
Rugby for sissies … exactly
I personally call American Football worse than that but the word ‘soccer’ being an American word is an urban myth.
The article Markus referred to basically says the same
