Napoleon Memorial Thread #RIP

[Torie]

I think some leniency is in order with regard to the length of any ban that may be forthcoming. Napoleon was always great to me and did not behave in any way that would be otherwise ban-worthy. Others have been allowed to come back after a reasonable timespan, and I hope the same is the case here.

I appreciate your point of view, and appreciation of his "admirable" skills at incorrigibility, but alas nobody, absolutely nobody,  in the Cave shares it. Hamilton has even less of a chance of coming back "legally" than jmfcst, and, despite BRTD's indefatigable campaign on his behalf, jmfcst's prospects of a resurrection on the Fahrenheit scale are either at, or asymptotically close to, minus 452 degrees, i.e., absolute zero. 

[Torie]

Life is not all about my personal gratification Morden. Just most of it.

[Torie]

. . . the limited number of actual rules we have around here.

And that's about 75% of the problem (that you guys allow attack threads is ridiculous), and is probably why there's such resentment for the authority structure in some quarters. The other 25% of the problem is that some who actually cross the thin red line get to come back after a month, some after a year, some never.

When it comes to prospects for reinstatement, socking (other than for innocent ministerial reasons or based on ignorance) moves a poster towards the "never" category at warp speed.

[Torie]

I don't get you people sometimes. Napoleon was pretty clearly a psycho in spite of being a fake persona. That he turns out to be Hamilton makes him maybe the most banworthy poster ever. Just because you were fooled by a sociopath you want him to come back? Incomprehensible.

The sock iteration caused less waves than the genuine article (the genuine article was getting close to causing a mass Mod resignation was my impression, and, as my further impression, did precipitate DAVE making some substantial administrative changes, much to the dismay of some Forumites - so give Hamilton credit for being a change agent). That's the content of the Brief. It gets traction from those who prefer that the Forum be as near the edge to DAVE just shutting it down as possible.