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Merrick
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Re: No treatment for you, fatty...
Dec 07, 2005, 15:16
It's not a matter of having attitude. There's a lot of strong opinionated buggers on here, and that's generally all to the good. We should be able to come here and have our ideas tested and chew around issues a bit.

But if someone comes on a forum specifically dedicated to 'direct action and righteous talk' and opposes direct action and being 'self-righteous' they're in the wrong lpace. That in itself isn't a reason to kick them off, though.

If they make one point, then instead of dealing with the reasons why it doean't stand up they just restate thier first point with increasing levels of insult and abuse they are making no positive contribution. More, they discourage posts from people who have valid points to make but don't want to be insulted.

So it becomes a choice between banning those who can't follow a line of argument/dish out abuse and effectively barring those who don't want to be the target of that abuse.

And it's not a matter of not reading posts by that person; to get to such a stage they will have already have been seriously abusive, they have changed the nature of the forum, and, like I said, knowing the abusive person is there will discourage people from initiating threads.

There's a high level of worthwhile thought and exchange here, and a large number of us value the forum highly. It takes some maintaining in order to allow it to continue to the same standard, especially as more and more people get the internet at work and are sat bored in front of a computer all day.

We're pretty good at chilling people out ourselves when they get overheated without the need for moderators, pretty much everyone here has strong opinions but also a better side that can be appealed to if they've flown off the handle a bit.

Occasionally, however, there's gonna be someone who won't have any of it. People are not readily banned here. As ToneStone and OghamSunFace were the same person, as was Lemon/Manao/Hongman/Kalamasi, that's three in the last couple of years. Having talked to people who frequent other forums, that's pretty amazing going.
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