You’re barking up the wrong tree. Please address your pleas for reinstatement of a banned FReeper to someone who can do something about it, and that would be the moderators.
Press the “Report Abuse” button on any post and make your case to the mods. I did not and cannot ban anyone, nor can I reinstate. I am not a mod and do not have any more sway with them than you do.
Pardon me, but pshaw to that. You're a Freeper in long-standing, and you head the ping list for zotted "trolls." When you ping your list it's loaded with flashy graphics and remarks on why said zottee was banned. People take you at your word and rejoice when the air is cleansed.
That's a fairly significant power. Why not check out the posting history to make sure if the zottee was legit or not before dancing on their grave? A lot of erudite posters have been hit by lightning from mods with itchy trigger fingers and posters hitting abuse against someone who rails against their "pet" issue. Genuine conservatives have been zotted from this site for promoting right-wing politicians in a respectful manner (Santorum, anyone?); for hailing the value of human life over animal life; for promoting pro-life policies, but being anti-global war; even way-back-when, for being anti-illegal immigration, anti-Rove or anti-Bush; and now for being against the homosexual agenda which is part of a greater leftist anti-family agenda. Does that sound conservative, consistent or even sane to you?
If you have enough pull on this site not only to run a banned-poster ping list but also to state WHY THEY WERE BANNED you can't just dismiss it as, "I just ping the list; I don't zot."
Have you ever researched the zottee's posts and remarked, "Well, thanks for the alert on the zot, but maybe somebody jumped the gun on that one. I'll ping the list and see what everybody else thinks about it [instead of telling them what to think]."?
If a poster is a genuine troll, it's easy to tell who true disruptors are. Scottjewell was a "newbie" but if he was a "pro-homo troll" he sure was going about it oddly. (That's what you called him in your ping, isn't it?) There's a current poster who posts on homoagenda threads, and I know he's a flaming-troll because of his exaggerated, hysterical invectives. That guy should be gone; not scottjewell. So how about wagglebee, littlejeremiah, DBeers, massmike, scripter and countless others who have posted articles and comments against the pro-homosexualization of society?
Scott's comment on the BSA now being viewed like the Catholic church due to molestation charges was not pro-homo or anti-Catholic; it stated an opinion. He posted a lot of relevant articles on that certain issue, articles that came from both right and left outlets (know your enemy, right?). His posts were always informative, supportive of true marriage, never sarcastic or intended to have a double meaning. If that's what a troll is defined as, then this site needs more trolls like him.
On second thought, I have just come to the epiphany that this site does not practice what it preaches. So what's the point? Carry on.