Do you get in trouble on other forums?

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It's a satire site and the other people posting are doing it satirically. You won't have 'riled them up' as such but you probably do have them wondering if you are in on the joke or if you are debating un-ironically. Are you in on the joke? Because you are debating with pranksters, not fundamentalists and you seem to be doing it as though they actually are fundamentalists.

Oh, I get it alright. There is a fellow there that is putting in a not unimpressive effort, of course still satirically, to present some sort of academic argument for their ideas. It is entertaining to see what he can muster up as a devil's advocate, in terms of scholarly support for "True Christianity". I'm merely making mincemeat of his feeble attempts at language study for the hell of it.

One thing I found hilarious was that he criticized me for calling Yeshua an Aramaic word, until I explained to him cognate words in Semitic languages. He then tried to muster up a response that Isaiah didn't use Aramaic anyways until I cited the relevant phenomenon of targumim. At this point he appears to be in a pickle, as to mustering up anything else as a devil's advocate. Of course, it's not as if practically any fundamentalist would know what a cognate or targumim is. Just some ridiculously complicated semantics in a play argument, for no apparent reason.

For the most part, I have done really good on all the forums I have been on, to my surprise.

I was so intrigued I had to go over to the Landover Baptist Church forums to see. It was a pretty hilarious exchange. The whole website is built on mocking people who have unsupportably ignorant religious views so the only one who could play devil's advocate while staying in character was the guy who put "distinguished professor" under his name. Nobody else's character could plausibly have the knowledge for a rebuttal when upthread they had written "joo". There are limits to how much I could poke around without actually registering but I did notice that in another thread he made, his character was far less knowledgeable. He had to let the mask slip in order to engage with you.

Pretty funny stuff all around. But it's a one note joke so I didn't register to join in.

Do imageboards count?

If they do, I do go on 4chan and I've never been banned.

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While I don't intentionally cause trouble on forums, like those found on WP or AC, I used to cause a lot of misery on Usenet. Many are the times Godwin's Law was invoked because of something reactionary that I wrote (especially about Robert Mapplethorpe and Sen. Jesse Helm's reaction to the so-called Piss Christ, even though that so-called masterpiece was privately funded. I still feel the piece should be banned from public exhibition, as I and quite a few other people found it offensive.)