I saw that last reply before it was deleted by the mods. It was pretty bad.
One thing I’ve noticed in my six-plus years as a FReeper is that odd behavior follows the temporary banning of well-known screen names. The former Willie Green, once a sort of tinfoily but pleasant fellow, as far removed from any kind of grand government largesse as one could be, emerged as a monomaniacal, one-note drone for high speed rail, Amtrak and trains in general. Not the same person, imho. The same happened in my opinion with the former B-Chan and many others whose screen names escape me at the moment.
How this occurs is not something I’d be able to spell out, but I have heard repeatedly of people with old signup dates and large posting histories being offered money for their screen names. Maybe some old timers continued to bear a grudge and deliberately traded their FR identities for compensation?
Maybe that explains the odd behavior of our Pissant? It was almost like he was being coached by another banned FReeper who was quite obviously an operative and made no bones about it, who would benBob J, reputedly of RightHaven infamy, who was zotted after threatening to sue JR right here on FR, lol, I saw that one happen, too. Talk about chutzpah. That was the most well-deserved and righteous zot I’ve ever seen here, and I’ve seen quite a few.
The long and short if this is that there are a lot of games and scheming going on with certain identities here. At least that is the impression with which I’ve been left, and Sarah Palin inspires most of it of late, all to the negative.
I don't believe any of this. Pissy has always had a certain feel and bullheadedness. He got frustrated that folks just didn't see things the way he did.
Ultimately, he began to cling to those who seemed to support his ideas not noticing that he had made himself indistinguishable from the DUmmies.
What is also clear is how ineffective his efforts were. Just like the Alaska Bloggers, ultimately, hate spewed in attempting to "take down" a person who does not richly deserved this rebounds on the source.
Folks who see FR as a territory to be "owned" or controlled have one after the next been disabused of this perspective.
People come here to make sense of the world, not to have opinions pressed upon them. The perspective that it represents provides boundaries for a certain mentality to exist here and not be shouted down as in so many other places. Yet, even here, especially here, we have boundaries. Boundaries because every word is "on the record" and will be used against the whole Conservative movement and boundaries because only civil and rational discussion is worth the time it takes to read and participate.
People think they can buy influence, but in all reality, you have to have a message and it resonates or it doesn't. Its that simple. FR is a nexus of analysis and on some levels this is quite scholarly. As a group, we are not easily fooled, though each of us has been the fool more than once.
Some here folks live to find moles and provocateurs, useful idiots and agents who might attempt to play such games, where would they find their fun if there weren't a stream of volunteers to test them? Its all part of the mix.
Pissant was one of us. This is why so many second, third and fourth chances. But, ultimately, he became a stranger who's actions could only seen as malice and even that carried some value, but in the end, you have to understand that he was driving folks away, heck I was considering just avoiding him by avoiding FR and that is what the mods must respond to no matter what or this forum will be lost for all, and they did.
What did he get banned for? I didn't see an opus...