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The End
After two years of running this site, I have finally banned someone for their comments. Previously, I had banned people for ‘viagra spamming’ and for random drive-bys filled with nothing but obscenities. However, JadeGold has now gone too far, and the website will be a better place without he/she/it.
In the past, JadeGold has accused me, repeatedly, of being a McVeigh supporter, has questioned my motives and intent for everything I have ever written, has engaged in a pattern of intentionally dishonest debate, including shifting the topic of every thread so that it has nothing to do with the original post, continues to insist that Bush is ‘your President’ and other idiotic nonsense, has talked extensively of a military background while showing no evidence of any military knowledge, as well as a variety of other really annoying behaviors.
One of the side effects of having JadeGold post comments here is that decent lefties (like Kimmitt) get tarred with JadeGold’s obnoxiousness, and I find that there is just a genuine air of hostility with every thread because of Jade’s asshole behavior. The final straw, however, was this bile directed at Steve Malynn, who spent a number of years in the military, including in the NationalGuard/Reserve:
As I’m always interested in the gouge provided us by weekend warriors–perhaps Steve could enlighten us as to why he thinks the folks in Samarra were ‘Saddam fedayeen.’
I’m always profoundly interested in what a weekend a month as experience can provide us.
That is it. I am done with you. You are banned. Goodbye, and now go cry to anyone who will listen at Eschaton or the Daily Kos or elsewhere that I am intolerant and censored you. I really don’t give a shit, because I know that this site will be a much better place.
Demon be gone.
Now- all you right-wingers, with the real asshole gone, I expect you to clean up your acts and be respectful to the lefites who do post here in good faith.
*** Update ***
Some have suggested the ban be temporary. I am fine with that. I will unban he/she/it on 1 January 2004 in the spirit of the New Year. If he/she/it behaves, he/she/it can stay and play.
Blog Troubles
Not sure what is going on, but I hope to have this fixed soon. Not that you can even read this, anyway.
Lack Of Poss
Sorry for the lack of blogging, but as you have probably observed, this site has been having some maintenance problems. Things seem to be working now.
Also, watching the Rams destroy the Steelers yesterday took the wind out of my sails.
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Jackass Spammers
Apparently I am not the only one who got spammed last night by the ‘Lolita’ Spammer. When I woke up this morning, I had to manually delete about 30 spams and block the IP. Really annoying.
*** Update ***
I got hit again, this time by “Preteen,” as did others. Same first parts of the ip address as last night, just the last two digits varied. Is there anyway to ban that whole string?