GuitarBizarre

Oh, and to boot - it doesn't matter if sopsych is trolling or just a deluded, insane, arrogant misfit hellbent on attacking the mod team. He was a disruption, and clearly at the center of a massive ****storm that HE started. that's reason enough to remove him from that discussion and other similar discussions before we even consider whether it was his intent or not.

Its not against the rules to ban someone just because they're a gigantic dick that everyone hates. in fact, that's a good thing, and allows the mod team to make sure the community not only works but works well. there is a grey area regards whether someone is disruptive enough to actually be banned for it, but there should be no rule laywering around whether them believing what they say absolves them of responsibility for the ****storm it creates. it does not. The responsibility lies on the member with the controversial opinion to put it across without being a complete dickhead about it. If they can't do that then they have the option of not doing it, trying to convince people less aggressively, or being asked to leave. Or forced to.

it is absolutely none of the mods business to ensure that someone with a controversial opinion is allowed to espouse it and receive a favourable response, or even a polite one. Their job is to ensure that them espousing it doesn't start outright fights and that if it does, then the person or persons responsible for that fight are dealt with and the fight stopped.

Which is **** all to do with letting sopsych dig his own grave for 40 pages versus absolutely everyone else who cared to read, then trying to say "But he was only trying to help!" - well yeah, but, without wishing to invoke Godwins law, Hitler only wanted to help Germany. It doesn't excuse what he did to achieve that.

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