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.
I’ve seen what I’ve seen as far as well-known FR screen names with long posting histories returning from a temporary banning completely changed and advocating things that are somewhat at odds with the stated mission of FR, dalight.
Does this apply to the former FReeper “Pissant?” I do not know, hence the use of the word “maybe.”