Posted on 08/03/2002 10:16:57 AM PDT by justshe
(Regarding the answer to stopping the 'in-house wars')
The answer is for everyone to just stop doing it.
I know that is hard for some, because things have gotten to the point where now things are personal. There are wounds in some cases, and in others there is anger. Makes it really hard for people to stand down. Unfortunately, I am pretty sure it has been planned this way.
Earlier tonight thanks to a tip from someone who I wish I had listened to earlier, we discovered someone who had at least 8 different accounts. One bashed Horowitz, Swaggert, and Art Bell. Another bashed Keyes. Another posted as a rabid Keyester. Another posted as a Klayman basher. Several seemed to have a thing for mocking Registered.
What was the guy's game? Here is a graphic and caption off of the profile of one of them:
Yes, he wanted to get people fighting to where they would walk away.
One of this guy's incarnations posted a piece or two from anarchist website strike-the-root, which to me hints to what his ideology is. It would also explain why he had a knack for going after the DC chapter folks. I recall nrkybill (anarchy Bill) had some issues with you all. They are not the same people, I don't think, but if their ideology is the same and their main targets are the same, then it is possible that there is some connection.
Obviously, the goal is to drive people away. This is not happening on just one side, it is happening on all sides. It is a form of disruption that relies on the cover of good people engaging in flame wars with them so that the disruptors seem part of the mass rather than the agent provocatuers that they are.
There are two options, really. People can help us out in finding them by refusing to take part in the flame wars and being understanding when a person gets sent to the cooler, so that eventually the real problem children are rooted out.
And the other option is to let them win by letting them drive you away- with you being people from every single conservative faction we have. Rest assured though, if that one happens, if you make another home and it starts being successful, they will come there and do it to you there.
I've asked this before. I'll ask it again. (And this is not aimed at you, ... but at the forum). Please stop it with the personal attacks. One can have a rip-roaring take-it-to-the-mat political debate with someone without getting personal, without resorting to childish taunts, and still not have it be bland.
And the best thing that one can do otherwise is to use a little self-enforcement. A Bushie telling a Bushie to knock off the insults is going to probably work better than a Keyester telling a Bushie to knock off the insults, and vice versa.
My flame suits are back on, so everyone have at it again. But please at least think about it. Thanks, AM
I wish Yahoo had people as diligent as ya'll policing some of the stock BB's I frequent.
Kudos
As you said, your email *was*.
Just realize, if you had sent that FReepmail to most other FReepers, they would have had you suspended for it.
I don't want that to happen.
So in the future, consider the difference between on-topic debate and personal insults.
And no, I don't even want you banned.
I've got a button for that....but it's surely going to get me a timeout.
In a technical discussion, your technical experience is *VERY* on-topic.
So please don't flame me again for bringing it up. And don't flame anyone else who brings it up. I do not want to see someone else get you in trouble.
And Registered and I have discussed in the past, that we thought he not only had several different accounts, but was also a liberal disrupter. I kept my mouth shut simply because I wasn't sure.
I had noticed several times that "ned" had posted cryptic messages inside his own, that pointed to the fact that he was also humblethefiend.
I sent him a Freepmail informing him of his obvious mistake.
It does not explain, or excuse, 8 accounts with most of them having hundreds of posts.
Thanks, AM
Registered and I were aware months ago, that humblethefiend and ned were the same person.
Bwahahaaaaaaaa... I want a 1 millisecond ban too! Why is SwingBoy special?
If yer wondering whence, check this out... It has been cracking my happy a$$ up for the past hour... BWAHAHA!
Connect the dots, ned also claimed to be a Bush Republican, so what's your point?
The point is that the guy obviously had some serious problems, that I am not going to go into.
ned, humblethefiend, etc. was not a Keyes Republican and was not a Bush Republican. Do you remember who ned's favorite author/philosopher was? It was Thoreau, a Transcendentalist. That should be self-explainatory of his worldview.
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