Opinion of the rebanning of Libertas

[Adam Griffin]

Horrible Banning. Apparently all it takes to get banned anymore is people constantly quoting posts with three-letter 'S' words in them until enough mods and/or Nym notices.  If Atlas leadership were in charge of a real-life state, then it'd charge abuse victims $300 for their kits.   

[Adam Griffin]

The slut-shaming in this thread is ridiculous. So what if he responded to attacks without impunity? He had the right to, and he shouldn't have had to explain or justify it to any damn person. I tried telling him to be more succinct with his replies (like "Why don't you go drink some more potatoes, leprechaun?" or "the reason you all are trying to rally a ban cry is because you have no lives") but he didn't listen.

The overall point, however, is that he shouldn't have had to listen to other people's advice on his defending himself or the BS coming from critics. The Ban Squad knows exactly how to get someone banned and they do it.

• One or two influentials start attacking
• Start bitching about it in IRC and PMs
• A dozen start attacking
• Bandwagon effect; it spreads forum-wide
• Creeps start digging through post history and quoting the least flattering ones (bonus points if they contain content that will flag Dave's Google ad accounts)
• Combination of all of this leads to ban

They knew he would continue responding in the way he did, that a backlash to "Old Libertas!!!!11" would arise (how everyone is saying, "oh well he defended himself relentlessly - he hasn't changed so time to ban again!"). The only thing he's guilty of is not succintly telling every last one of you detractors to fyck off and eat a big ol' bag of dicks.

[Adam Griffin]

I'm also not aware of any conspiracy - I'm an IRC regular and don't recall any discussion to that effect (even if Libertas was/is hardly flavour of the month there) - not that one would have been needed.

The point isn't that there's a "conspiracy" in there; the point is that it's a medium through which flames are chronically fanned in these cases, based on the whims of a few dominant chatters and absorbed/brought back to the forum by a bunch of impressionables who want to be cool kids. I popped in late the other night for a couple of hours and saw three separate instances of "boo Libertas" chatter (and this was after he was banned).