# Ah, milroyj, we barely knew ye. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 13, 2005, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660 "2005-05-13T11:28:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/221 "2005-05-15T22:44:13Z")
The banning really doesn’t seem all that justified to me either. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/222 "2005-05-15T23:18:41Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Not so much a refusal as that I had simply approached it from a different perspective. (Frankly, I’ve only skimmed the thread looking for issues addressed to the staff, so I have probably not paid enough attention to the slurs directed at **milroyj** –something I will now do.) Fair enough. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/223 "2005-05-15T23:28:34Z")
**Lib** , I understand what you’re saying, but then, wouldn’t it also apply that we can’t criticize anyone who’s ever died, because they can’t defend themselves? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/224 "2005-05-15T23:29:08Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > But when people call him names, everything from “buffoon” to “creepy piece of shit jerk”, and declare him to be “nasty, angry, mouthy, and derisive” — these things are about the man. He literally cannot respond to people who characterize his posts as accusations of child abuse. That is not about moderation, but about him. And your refusal to acknowledge the difference amounts to your tacit participation in, and institutionalization, of the bashing. Perhaps my longheld respect means nothing to you, but if you continue to let this go on, I will think very differently of you from now on. I don’t get why this is such a bad thing. If I call **milroyj** a fuckhead in this thread, I’ve made some terrible breach of ettiquette because he can’t respond. But I can go ahead and call George Bush, Andrew Jackson, or my Uncle Lou fuckheads, even though none of them can respond, either. What makes the former so much worse than the latter? Especially when you consider that there’s nothing that’s been said in this thread that hadn’t been said to **milroyj** face more times than I can count? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/225 "2005-05-15T23:49:52Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I don’t get why this is such a bad thing. If I call **milroyj** a fuckhead in this thread, I’ve made some terrible breach of ettiquette because he can’t respond. But I can go ahead and call George Bush, Andrew Jackson, or my Uncle Lou fuckheads, even though none of them can respond, either. What makes the former so much worse than the latter? Especially when you consider that there’s nothing that’s been said in this thread that hadn’t been said to **milroyj** face more times than I can count? No, I think **Liberal** is right. It’s gauche to attack a banned poster when they can’t defend themselves. Since the debate over whether **milroyj** ’s banning was justified has spilled over into some straight-up bashing of **milroyj** as a poster, I’m going to close this thread. Anyone who wants to continue the discussion of whether or not **milroyj** ’s banning was justified is welcome to open another thread, but I ask that any posters who choose to continue the discussion are asked to refrain from negative comments about **milroyj** which are not directly related to the discussion of his banning. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660.md?page=11)