Moderators, come here, now!

[Asher]

It's not supposed to be worth something. Everyone makes fun of Canada, don't you ever go to the OTF?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by MarkG
you're not ignoring history here siro, you're ignoring an idiot....


bunny, seeing you asking for bans is rather interesting i must say...

That would be a poor second to what I'd really like to do, which would be to break his nose. I'm convinced that you get people who attain a certain transcendental degree of viciousness/stupidity at which point it's totally pointless to try reasoning with them.

This might be interesting, but it's not new. Three years ago I was asking why Joe wasn't banned. The brutal truth is that I don't come here to read racist, anti-semitic crap, and I doubt that anyone does. Let these anti-jew posts stand and they'll end up dominating the OT, in which there will be people arguing for and against them on principles. Then you'll get the odd evil little bastard tempted out to post. They hang around the OT and I can name them. Plus you'll get people trolling the issue for laughs.

Banning? It isn't nice, is it? I'd still do it though. Weed one or two irredeemable rats out and leave the forums a more tolerant and friendly place. Significantly, it looks like the latest troglodyte has already been IP banned from another forum, and while I've no idea of the ins or outs of that affair, it looks like holocaust revisionism was involved. That's beyond stupid- it's evil. Given my ignorance I'm not going to point any fingers over that, but in view of what the moron's posted here so far it's unlikely he'll feature on my Christmas card list.

Still, I can't ban anyone, and my opinions count for something less than diddly squat. I can do little more than hurl abuse at him. And I will.

Anyway. what's so "interesting" about it? Is it because I've been banned myself? Those bans were for hurling abuse at a homophobe and a pro-eugenicist. Spot any trends emerging?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by GP
oh...I thought the name itself pissed you off.

It does. I'm still going easy on him, though. I've got forlorn hopes that he might grow out of it.

[Sirotnikov]

Look, I would prefer the possibility to sit down and explain to him why his wrong.

And if he wouldn't listen, I don't think I'd break his nose like bugsy here.

Then I'd ignore him.

But I do want to make sure that his message isn't heard.

Because someone with less information or tools to judge reality can be swayed by this.

And it quite frightens me how casually and coldly and politely he said it all.

The nazis these days like to pretend they are the normal ones, and the people they piss off are "fanatics".

[Ecthy]

The nazis these days like to pretend they are the normal ones, and the people they piss off are "fanatics".

I'm so glad I'm normal. It's sad this site is full of fanatics though.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by MarkG
usually we dont ban people because they say stupid things

Perhaps you should make exceptions from that rule from time to time....

[Hydey]

I see the troll had the desired effect.

[faded glory]

Originally posted by Solver
Just who is that guy and where does he come from?

Sometimes I'm just so happy of my really rare visits to OTF.

ya its a wasteland for idiots. I stopped..wasnt worth the time. This particular guy was wierd. Was it him or Kilroy_Alpha, who said the Nazi's should fire up the ovens again, but not the jews, for the fags

[MBloomIII]

Wow! What's the point of moderation if not for weeding out hate-filled crap? Perhaps MarkG has a soft spot for anti-Semites? Interesting that no other Mods are showing support for the decision. I don't see how you can reasonably turn a blind eye to this. I would attempt to sum up my feelings, but Laz did so nicely.

[Felch]

It appears to me that this is a double standard. It doesn't bother Mark that people are spreading hateful propaganda on his site, in clear violation of the rules. If you're going to have rules, Mark, you might as well enforce them evenly.

[Solver]

Markos I'll ask the Jewish Community to go to Thesalloniki and arrest you .

[Ecthy]

While moderation shouldn't be political motivated, it should be there or keeping the site clean of inhumane flaming. And since this was not politically motivated but rather a flamefest, he should be banned.

[Mr. President]

How this man escaped a ban is beyond me.

[Solver]

Let's just face the fact that Markos has a couple of oddities... everyone knows he just loves the thread rating feauture, refusing to kill it, despite the multiple requests. This must be one of them.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
But I do want to make sure that his message isn't heard.

By posting all his posts again? Strange.
But reading your reasons, I can understand where you are coming from.


The hate **** the original poster posted is definately worthy of a ban. I'm glad MTG did it.

EDIT: Hopefully this makes more sense