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You know, Skinner, just like JimRob, has the right to say who we wants to allow to use his site, so I'm not going to be joining the "reinstate Fat Che" petition.

The petition of course is facetious, tongue-in-cheek, as a mockery of how the DUmmies think such things actually effect changes in the real world.

I remember one time last year I got a warning from Jim Robinson, and it put the fear of God into me. It blows my mind that Fat Che had gotten not one, but several warnings, from my fellow alum, and obviously ignored them all.

I think it boils down to respect. Fat Che, like so many DUmmies, doesn't really respect my fellow alum, and my fellow alum lets them get away with it. And so naturally I am enthusiastic about this minor show of backbone, but as I've said several times, "Skinner"'s got to do a lot more than that, if he honestly wishes to respectablize his creation.

"Fat Che, like so many DUmmies, doesn't really respect my fellow alum, and my fellow alum lets them get away with it."

In reading about narcissism through kevkrom's earlier link, this isn't surprising. I don't think anyone would argue the narcissistic behavior shown at DU. And narcissists don't respect criticism. Nor do they honor authority over them. This goes to the core of the community that's developed, and to the core of the problem in regenerating it.