re: #122 SanFranciscoZionist

Both ‘teams’ around here operate with bias and double standards. Some of us try to avoid it.

But acting as though criticism is coercion and only in one direction is a bit silly.

I guess you hav’nt been paying much attention to which direction the downdings have been flowing in lately. I’m in the center, I have a lot more karma than I do posts, it isn’t my personal plight that I am complaining about, far from it.

I just don’t see how a post by someone else about Gore that was actually mildly funny rates 8 downdings, I really don’t. Yet someone else can make a post about Palin that calls her a slut and get 5 updings?

The balance of power on this site has shifted from right to left, I probably wouldn’t be posting here otherwise because the pure “right” sites are riduculously uninformed echo chambers. However I still lean a bit to the right and I get tired of seeing people gang-piled for even attempts at right-wing humor.

Every day I see deadly serious and utterly scathing posts about the right or about people on the right that at the end have a sarc tag and a “just kidding” or something equally inane. It was never sarc, it was never humor, it was exactly what the rest of the post purported it to be. Yet the inclusion of the “sarc tag” allows people to upding it freely without it being held against them “seriously.”

So, why doesn’t this also work for people posting from the right? Why does saying anything that could be construed as negative about anyone on the left automatically garner a lot of downdings even when the post actually is a joke?

/ (Just Kidding)…NOT!