[serious] Off Topic Moderation Input - Part 2

[MikeH]

But he was on a "if you post any more racist threads we're going to ban you" warning.

[The Mad Monk]

He said he had already lost his job because he couldn't get to work.

[The Mad Monk]

I still feel bad for him, though he was racist and posted a lot of rubbish. From the sound of that deleted post, he was in bad shape, financially, and upset. Not that that's an excuse for his utterly nonsensical misuse of the n-word, but I do feel a bit bad for him.

I agree with this.

[Kidlicious]

HC, because this is the internet.

[MikeH]

He was banned for calling them dumb? Really? Auto thieves don't really make my list of smart people. Maybe they are and I'm wrong. I'm just stating my impression.

He's posted a lot of racist threads, which I've been deleting so it's possible you lot haven't seen them. Repeatedly posting videos of black people fighting where he calls them animals that kind of thing. And out of that phrase you quoted it's not the word "dumb" that was the problem.

[Hauldren Collider]

I don't believe a word he says about his real life.

Why?

[SlowwHand]

He's not. Sloww's racism has been overt for a long time now.



QFT

You're full of crap, no matter what color you are.

[KrazyHorse]

I don't believe a word he says about his real life.

[Jon Miller]

He had paid off the truck and so didn't have insurance.

Admittedly, when I paid off my car, I also dropped insurance.

I don't know exactly what his intentions were (although from all his posts, I can guess), but we don't care about intentions here. What matters is what he did, which was post another racist thread. I renamed the thread and suggested we ban DFG. Later, MikeH deleted the thread and agreed that DFG should be banned.

I also hope he gets things straightened out so he can care for his family.

JM

[Elok]

Beats me. I don't recall reading anything to that effect, but like I said, the thread wasn't alive for a long time. Maybe he was afraid he couldn't afford to wait until he collected his insurance claim and got the truck back in order.

[loinburger]

I take it he didn't have insurance?

[Elok]

Looks like I missed all the fun.

Not really fun. Somebody trashed his truck, he started a thread ranting about how "******s" had ruined his livelihood, JM said there would be consequences, the thread and DFG have both disappeared.

[Hauldren Collider]

I feel bad for him too. He was a pretty disgusting racist, but I still feel sorry for the fact that he's going through a rough patch, and that he's having trouble supporting his wife and kids. That doesn't change the fact that he deserves a ban for this.

[C0ckney]

I still feel bad for him, though he was racist and posted a lot of rubbish. From the sound of that deleted post, he was in bad shape, financially, and upset. Not that that's an excuse for his utterly nonsensical misuse of the n-word, but I do feel a bit bad for him.

i agree with that assessment. the guy was going through a tough time from the sound of it, i feel for him.

on the other hand, he's made a lot of racist threads here and the ban had been coming for a while. it's not as if it came out of the blue.

[Elok]

Possibly. I only peeked at the thread once, but given DFG's history of cluelessness about racial sensitivity, I wouldn't be surprised if he genuinely thought there was nothing wrong with using the word for a white guy. Too late now though, the thread's deleted.