So, I don't know why @williamglenn is no longer able to post, but it is worth remembering that 90% of bans are no such thing: most are 24 or 48 hour time outs after someone has overstepped a lin… (View Post)

The problem is that Vanilla doesn't have that functionality. So banning and unbanning happens manually. But maybe we should have a public page, where we note who is in the "sin bin". (View Post)

Remeber, it's not premarital sex if you never get married. (View Post)

I agree that for the initial lockdown it is very easy to be wise with hindsight. And I would cut policymakers a lot of slack. But for 2021, we should have known that R fell at at a very similar rate … (View Post)

While I'm sure that's true. It is also the case that there will be 99 out of 100 Afghan translators who are not Taliban, and who only took the job with us in Afghanistan because we promised… (View Post)