The glee people take in banning people is pretty pathetic.
I noticed one newbie posted some goofy article about arafat not too long ago. Thread pulled with 'no thanks' and he was banned.
Couple hours later, someone with some clout I guess posted the same thing. Everyone laughed about it and thought it was an amusing article.
Well, during the immigration debacle, I think there was serious unfairness.
Good, honest, true American types were being labeled nazis and extremists, and many left, while somewhat radical liberal free for all advocates stayed and continued what I and many others considered abuse.
But Jim and the mods seemed to have let it even out, for which we can all be greatful. I, for one, almost left.
I guess the only unknown is about the mods. Who knows? Maybe somebody will get banned because one of the mods got a speeding ticket or something. It's a somewhat arcane part of being a member.
Even after all the work, I wish there was more that could be done about thread duplicates. Colin Powell gets a headache and suddenly there's 45 threads about it.
Maybe there should be a "thread post suspension" status for newbies and abusers, etc. One where they can reply to posts but not start a new thread.
I think I saw and was reading that thread. I refreshed and it was gone!
Another thing that gets lost in the shuffle is that a lot of the 'newbies' actually are re-treads, trolls who have been zotted before, who try to get a new sign-in name and come back to continue trolling. They are banned on sight.