[AppyPappy]

Many bannees are one-trick ponies who try to use FR as their personal pulpit for their pet paranoia. Mojo, Nav, Don Morgan, Cinderella, etc may have given you fits but at least they didn't bore us with endless litanies on the same worn-out subject.

I quit going to the drug threads because of the temper tantrums. You can't talk to those people rationally.

I still like the moderating-down method. Instead of deleting the message, you knock it down below the level of the standard reader. They see their message but everyone else has to drop a level to see it. Ignorance is bliss.

[strela]

I quit going to the drug threads because of the temper tantrums. You can't talk to those people rationally.

Same here (although I occasionally lurk in them, strictly to observe the pathology). I'm already hip-deep in flamewars in Usenet - I use FR to take a break from them.

Hey Jim, can I have a ride in your black helicopter sometime? (snicker) Judging by the shrill and hysterical accusations of the tinfoil hat crowd banned by you and your yoeman staff, you must be doing something right. "You can judge a man by the quality of his enemies."

Keep it up.

[Corin Stormhands]

I quit going to the drug threads because of the temper tantrums. You can't talk to those people rationally.

I left the religion forum for the same reason. And, admittedly, I threw a few tantrums of my own over there. But I was accomplishing nothing - even on the "good" days.