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Open Thread: The Courtesy Guidance & the Two Factions (Majority vs. Minority)
X.T.M’s open thread describes BP’s two factions, majority and minority, and argues the Courtesy Guidance should give minority commenters latitude without letting either side provoke; the Ceasefire stays lapsed for…
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Pakistani Centrists, Not Muslim Extremists
X.T.M sets a moderation standard: Pakistani commenters on the site are centrists, not extremists, and illiberal arguments stay up so long as they stop short of incitement. A Pakistani commenter…
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On Dhurandhar, Decorum, and Where BP Draws the Line
X.T.M explains a suspension of BB’s commenting rights until 2 April after he directed a film-style threat at another commenter. The post says the line is argument versus menace, admits…
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Men of State, and the Great Mahatma
X.T.M sets four house positions: Jinnah and Nehru were men of state, judged as builders of states; Gandhi was a man of Dharma, a different category; Ambedkar is a constitutional…
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Founder Sites and Institutional Sites: A Note on Sikh Sacred Geography
X.T.M announces an automatic fine for racialised language against Dravidian communities, then sets a framework for disputes over Sikh holy places. Founder sites such as Nankana Sahib lie in Pakistan,…
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India That Is Bharat: The Exceptional Uniqueness and the Dual Identity
X.T.M answers the charge that the site treats India more gently than Pakistan. The post argues India is both a seventy-nine-year-old state and a civilisation of some five thousand years,…
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Online Safety Protocol Activated
Agni announces that the Online Safety Protocol is reactivated after Kabir reported that toxicity is affecting his health. Five named commenters may not interact with one another, and replies between…
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Brown Pundits Is Not a Cesspit. Keep It That Way.
X.T.M announces that all four authors are moved to commentator status until each commits to evidence-based comments. The post sets out how “genocide” is defined and contested for 1971, and…
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On Safety and Hinduphobia
Announcing a ten-day suspension of a commenter who posted another commenter’s personal details, the authors affirm privacy as a house standard. They then argue Hinduphobia is real, theological in form…
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On “The Haraam Bit”: Free Speech, Trolling, and Our Red Lines
X.T.M explains why he overwrote a post that mocked Pakistani-origin women performers, calling it communal trolling rather than analysis. He sets out BP’s editorial standards: controversial is fine, targeted mockery…
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Two House Precedents
Two house precedents: online-safety reports must now reach the editors by email, and BP restates its aims as density (20 comments per post) and diversity (five voices per thread), with…
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Open Thread + A Note on Standards
Brown Pundits raises its moderation standard: considered thought only, on all sides, effective immediately.
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Moderation Note: On Gaza, October 7, and the Limits of Tolerance
A moderation note: the founder bars a commenter from becoming an author and removes his past comments, argues another commenter is a Muslim nationalist rather than an Islamist, and says…
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Kabir, the Anchor of the Crescent
Without Kabir, the Crescent faction disperses. A South Asian forum without a sustained Crescent voice is a drawing room pretending to be a commons. Three rulings on Author autonomy, Founder…
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Moderation Notice
X.T.M tells commenters that the site now prefers many voices to many comments, and holds known authors to a higher bar than anonymous readers. Authors are urged to write posts…
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We Are Now Hitting 200 Comments a Day
X.T.M reports comment volume nearing 200 a day and explains why the site speaks in the plural. A plural voice separates rulings from personal preference, and Precedent posts carry settled…
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The Gender Protocol Has Teeth
X.T.M announces that a commenter, KB, has been fined 20 comments under the Gender Protocol for remarks about a Pakistani female politician that the admins describe as misogynistic. The post…
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the Shah and the Saint
Moderation notice: after a commenter’s jocular threat against another, the authors say the next sanction for BB, under any handle, is a 40-comment fine and a week without authorial and…
