The Locking of the Avril Thread

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P.S. No one is ever really anti-censorship. Otherwise we'd have animal pron and kiddie stuff on sale and we don't want that. nor do many of us want bullfighting/ fox hunting etc (oh how we laughed when the Tory government who approved two private members bills to outlaw such "threats" to our society as uncut videotapes of "Driller Killer" complained about a ban on foxhunting being an attack on personal freedom). I'm certainly not anti-censorship. No one is.

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After a barrage of insults and grandstanding and general obnoxiousness on his part, yes. And personal attacks. VERY personal attacks, and not against me, he didn't really start those until late last year.

May I remind folks that at one point we did have the board set up as best we could so that for a good number of users we wouldn't and didn't have to see his messages? And how so very very enjoyable that silence was. Unfortunately it couldn't be maintained but even though he didn't cotton onto that for months, he DID NOT GO AWAY -- even though he was effectively and thoroughly ignored by the best means possible at the time.

Well that's easily explained Ned... It wasn't until late last year that you joined the ranks of those people who refused to meet him over a beer.

I guess you're right. When Calum posts to other threads than his own, it's mostly threads like this which are about him. We're stroking his ego much more than he deserves, especially considering how long this all has been going on.

I'm not going to post anything to any Calum-related debate anymore, perhaps everyone else should try the same.

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Until the newer board members join in...and wonder what's going on...and more arguments break out...and those with longer memories say one thing or another and there's more debate...

Right after I finish photoshopping his head onto this picture of a penis.

If I may, please refer to John's quite lovely metaphor up above regarding broken windows and wanting to break arms. Which I find far more applicable to this situation than a stack of Milton quotes.

Really, what was there to debate about this person, EVER? I suppose it's near impossible to lock someone out of the site completely (is it?), but locking/deleting/ignoring their obvious threads is a no-brainer. Me thinks some of you have too much time on your hands and no idea of what to do with it....

When he did ever offer to repair a broken one?

Really, what was there to debate about this person, EVER?

Ask Momus, he seems to adore the little darling.

Like Jsoulja says, there is NO debate here about the person. That much is apparent. Do I need to restate my point up above again about what grates?

That might not be important to him in this discourse. I don't claim Nick to be a close friend or even a friend as such, that would be a ridiculous assertion -- we are acquaintances who have had a few meetings along the way. But even a slight acknowledging from him that we're all not positioning ourselves as objects of figurative rhetoric on the board would be nice. I'm not asking him to change his ways, oddly enough, but it'd be something if he realized that it'd pretty damned strange to expect us all to change to his.

They're not mutually exclusive at all, and the fact that Momus replies to your Do I need to restate my point up above again about what grates? with his comment about Berners Lee designing the web to control what people say just seems to me to be a refusal on his part to admit that he understands what you're talking about. Hence, he's acting like a wall.

(Momus, I do believe you to be an intelligent fellow, so I take for granted that you do hear what Ned's saying. I don't think I'm putting you behind any walls as a result of my opinion.)

A) Read my threads
B) Post on them

I don't see why on every thread I put up you come in with some smarmy comment. I find it confusing and really quite sad. Don't you have any girls to speak to?

But some people on this board aren't. I don't think that "the antics of the Scotsman in question are completely harmless", because they have in the past, made the board into a place where I didn't want to be, and I really don't think I'm the most thinned-skinned type here, nor that I'm alone in this. Calum has been behaving himself lately, but to view trolling as an act that doesn't lastingly and negatively alter the medium itself is kinda ludicrous.

If he were a judge I do think that would be wise of him.

However I do think you've (perhaps inadvertently) gotten his goat by appearing not to empathize with his feelings (whether or not you agree with his position).

(I do think this is your normal posting/debating style, though, and I'll admit to being frustrated with it myself at times, but I wouldn't suggest that you don't have a right to continue in your preferred manner. There are also plenty of folks here who I find far more frustrating than I do you.)