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At 6:36 you hit abuse:

Regarding #110 personal attack. please delete and warn abuser

Someone looked at your complaint and looked at the post. Here is the post in question:

To: Timesink
Does Rush sit in a dark office all day long secretly believing that it's all hopeless and "President Hillary" is a God-given metaphsyical inevitabiliy?
No, ace, and neither do I. But anyone who doubts the mainstream press will be in a constant state of orgasm if Hillary runs has no IQ.
110 posted on 02/07/2003 9:34 PM EST by M. Thatcher

I am sorry, but we simply don't see the abuse there. Not even close to being over the line.

At 6:41, you hit abuse on it again.

At 6:59 you hit abuse on it again.

At 8:48 you hit abuse on it again. This time you added in that you think favoritism is being employed:

Regarding #110 personal attack. do those with numbers under 10000 not have to obey FR ruleS?

At 9:21 you hit abuse again.

You were then suspended.

This isn't the first time you have made yourself a pest via the abuse button. You hit abuse 6 times over an extended period about this post a few days earlier:

To: Timesink
Ok. Since you had my last reply pulled, I'll try again so that I don't hurt your feelings. The use of newbie is incorrect as well as it is rude and indicates you don't have an argument.
308 posted on 02/05/2003 3:46 AM EST by hotpotato

I am sorry but we simply don't see any abuse there. Some thicker skin might help.

But if you go out of your way to be a pain, odds are your posting abilities will be suspended or removed. Sorry, AM.

But anyone who doubts the mainstream press will be in a constant state of orgasm if Hillary runs has no IQ.

Which part of "You have no IQ, ace?" is NOT a personal attack?

I am sorry but we simply don't see any abuse there. Some thicker skin might help.

Then perhaps you should remove the rule against personal attacks, or at least drop a Freepmail telling people why a given post is tolerated. And the way you delete posts (as 308 was) only to reinstate them later.

Oh, by the way AM, how come the checkbox on the Report Abuse page reads "Sign my name to this complaint (names on complaints are otherwise not revealed to moderators.)" when both your examples prove it's a complete lie?

(See, Skooz?)

Timesink, I'm going to way in publicly on this one because you're a great addition to FR.

Especially if you're "flaming" the "report abuse" button, a suspension was probably *good* for you too. I think what happens on any given day here -- by which I mean all of this -- doesn't matter *that* much, Timesink: it's still just cyberspace.

In short, if you want a reality check, I think you should take things less seriously and the Admin had a point. I know you're annoyed at the Admin right now, but they HAVE to be right at least about the "Some thicker skin might help." C'mon, so you were suspended. It's not this scarlett "S" anyone's going to put on your forehead.

In Shipping News, a great fiction author Annie Proux has a great line: she refers to her protagonist as having a "child's sense of morality." It was a compliment. But for the protaganist, it was also a weight. In that book, which I highly commend, it meant believing that if you're good good things happen and if you're bad bad things happen, and being shocked and outraged if bad things happen when you're good. I almost admire people who retain that kind of moral outrage. Call me cynical or call me aged, but I find it hard to get shocked or outraged or care so much.

A beer. I wish I could upload you a beer.