lordjedi said:

Apparently no one caught this:

FanFiltration said:

This tool is for people such as myself that enjoy baiting, and also observing the types of debate tactics, reactions, and over reactions employed by the posters here.

lordjedi said:

And here you admit to baiting, which is generally a bannable offense on most sites. There are actually statements in the TOS that could fall under that, but I'll leave it to the mods to decide if it's worth a ban.

You are taking my statement out of context. "Baiting" with the intent to draw someone into a civil dialog, political or social debate is common here, and not done for the use of causing personal grief to members such as personal name calling tactics. "Baiting" for personal attacks is something that I do not endorse or engage in. Please reference a direct act of any bannable type of "Baiting" that you feel I have done here on OT. Harmless "Baiting" can be used in debate for luring a person into using "logical fallacies" such as I mentioned before. A good example of harmful "Baiting" would be the last few posts above directed at me specifically on a past personal medical and legal issue. I'm sure the intent of the posters is to have me respond or react in an emotional manner to the statements, and make me feel uncomfortable on a purely personal level, and also feel unwelcome. That is destructive"Baiting" to cause personal unsolicited grief to a specific OT member for reasons outside the scope of the topic. I'm not asking anyone to be banned for it, but that kind of digging up of personal issues for an attack is still out of line and uncalled for. That kind of tactic is way more in line with a bannable offense.

All that I have done in this thread is make a few general statements about the
way issues are debated here on this forum, and on the internet. I targeted no one member in a personal manner, did not lie, nor make any false accusations to personally discredit, or lure anyone into a heated debate with the sole intent to create an unwelcoming atmosphere for members, or detract from the discussion. That seems to be the agenda of others for sure, but not me. What I have done with my statements in this thread is no worse then other posters making general insults about liberals, conservatives, hippies, conspiracy nuts, etc.! My original post of the graph was a response to a back and forth argument about "killing the planet". It was a one sentence comment and the photo of a graph, as well as a quote from the article that the graph was taken from. After that, all my posts in this thread have related to me answering questions people have asked me about that graph, and my reasons for posting it.