Curious to know Are We Happy Now?

SC Cheesehead said:
Rich,

I agree. The "cloaking" technology thread was a little goofy, but overall, he was posting up some fairly interesting stuff lately and was generating some decent dialog among folks, myself included.

Would be interesting to see what happend that lead to the ban.
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Don't assume I was actually reading his posts, Rex.:D
 
Dr Caleb said:
What banning? He has only ever received one. This one.

The 'last time' he was asked to cool it, and he did so, voluntarily. Ask yourself why he did that.

He was all by himself, the Mods gave him zero recourse with all the threats, berating and plain old trolling. So he acted as anyone who is at their wits end will do. And he still did it within the rules and without insulting anyone - even if it was against the spirit of the rules.



And? As I said, is every single thread here is of 100% value to every single member? It's not up to you to decide what I find ridiculous. I found many of his threads to be great subjects for discussion. Some I found pointless. I commented in the former, and ignored the latter. As I do with every other new thread I see.



If you were so smart, you'd see that once he was cast in the role of villain, no mater what he did he was wrong.



Again, your narrative begins once he was already the bad guy. If you had been paying attention, he was only doing what others did to him for weeks previously. Only he didn't threaten, swear or berate anyone.



None of us here fit into any one single mould. We all have bits of us that overlap. But AJ is one of those people who just hasn't had the same life experiences we have. So he was just finding his place in our group - and he gets banned. Nice!



Indeed! "If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all." Noam Chomsky. I'm not saying Aren was a saint. But he at least had some standards to which he held.

The mods & owners are of course free to do as they wish. I'm not commenting on their decision. I only hope to understand it, because the seeming randomness of it does not give me hope for the future of MM.net.



After a while of 'going it alone', I'm sure you are right. It's not like he wasn't trolled hard before he got there however. When life give you only crap, make crapade.
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He was a pest, good riddance.
 
I read him yesterday I think, Dr. Caleb, what is the problem? If the post got to be too long I just past them by.:dunno:
 
I thought AJ was doing much better. He wasn't nearly as annoying as some have been on here. He has always been in his own world, but in all honesty, he never really bothered me, and lately, I thought he was being quite civil.

I have never seen him get involved in politics or religion. Hell, he doesn't even curse. He may be annoying to some, but he does it by the rules.

Crap, I miss him already.
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Dr Caleb;800870 My point said:
Uhm, it takes more than a whim. You need only look at the others that this has happened to. I don't know what he did, but it had to have really offended someone.
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Personally I thought his posts were just the efforts of someone more interested in being a post ho and stated the same.For the first time since I've been frequenting this site I put someone,AJ,on my ignore list.Whether or not the contents of his posts changed I don't know as I did ignore them.
As far as the reason(s) for banning him I hope it wasn't for the "nitwit" posts as I refer to the threads he posted before I instituted the ignore feature.Maybe things would've been better served by "taking him out back and slapping a little sense into him" figuritively speaking. I can tell you in the going on 7 years i've been around here on and off there have been MANY members banned,"eliminated",intimidated or harassed into leaving for what seem mostly to be site politics,it's happened under each different set of site owners for whatever their reasons were.So,we can all be shown the door if we displease the powers that be,as owners that's their right,even if it isn't "right".
 
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