Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

but it's worth just as much as my other opinions. In most groups of any sort though, ostracism has less to do with the individual's beliefs than with their effect on the social fabric. No idea if that's the case here, but I've noticed that you can get pugnacious from time to time.

I've noticed that when things like that happen to me I tend to blame opposition to my beliefs rather than my behavior, even when that amounted to blame-shifting. For me the reason was that if I blamed opposition to my beliefs it made me right in my own mind, while blaming my behavior made me wrong. It's a natural human tendency to want to be right rather than wrong.

Or the mods could just be closed-minded a-holes bent on creating an echo chamber. I've seen enough ongoing conflict over there to think that's not necessarily the case, though.