It would be interesting to see numbers for Lee’s high-volume, low-integrity, high-bullshit, seemingly LLM-assisted “contributions” to the forum these last several weeks. His vast and preposterous output has likely made moderation effectively impossible. (Yes, this is also due to the willingness of several forum members to engage his disgracefully dishonest blather; I won’t judge others for these choices, and it is still Lee who is the root of the extraordinary wave of pollution.) Moving two of the threads to Side Conversations has likely reduced the moderation workload, but also means that Lee’s graffiti is unfiltered.
So IMO that comment should not have escaped moderation, and yet it is unreasonable to expect our volunteer mods to deal with such vast troves of textual diarrhea, and IMO it is irrational to expect Lee to adhere to (or indeed understand) basal expectations for intellectual discourse. I blame his toxic religion, but that doesn’t matter. What matters to me is this: “discourse” with Lee will inevitably involve outright lying, high-volume bullshit, nearly instantaneous conceptual amnesia, and journeys into actual insanity. That this meandered into a casual and inexcusable slander is not just unsurprising but utterly predictable.