I am fucking glad he’s gone and hope it’s for good because I had given up participating in many threads due to him. He was just tawling for attention. Good riddance. The board is a better place now that his stupidity will not drown out more reasonable voices.
Bali probably sat poorly with the Mods after this train wreck:
For post-modern posters, truth depends on who said it
Zuma, Random, I had assumed, perhaps falsely, that it was the Bali thread. I guess I just thought since it was his latest, it was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
I’m certain the Staff will make a post telling us generally why, so speculation is of limited value.
I just never got into debating with decemeber. I guess because he didn’t really push any hot buttons with me. It was interesting to note how well he kept his cool and remained far, far more polite and reasonable in his text than most of his critics, even after having been gang-tackled on nearly every OP he made this year. I’m not saying the gang-tacklings were right or wrong; I don’t want to get into that, especially as I don’t know enough to say. Maybe being an outsider to most all those debates, my opinion has some bearing, though, as it always appeared to me a a very disinterested outsider that he was being baited, goaded, and attacked from every angle.
Once again, I’m not arguing that he did or did not deserve it. I’m only discussing appearances here, which are, of course, decieving.
His ability to keep cool under that sort of non-stop conflict was admirable. I would have burned out long before, or else pulled a “Jay and Silent Bob” and started showing up at people’s houses to kick their asses.
This doesn’t always happen. Sometimes they act without comment.
I agree, after his official warning for lying he restarted the protesters against Bush encourage terrorist thread again.
The old december was a bain on the fight against ignorance. The new december seemingly deceided that actively lying was fine if you were on the right side.
BTW, somebody needs to come off the cross. :rolleyes:
I think I had better see if I can do a quick search for december’s very last post, and link to it. To spare the hamsters’ suffering heart attacks as we all satisfy our morbid curiousity.
TwistofFate - Sure, that’s what they want me to believe - and then, zap!
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Shodan
I’d say it’s a combination of the two. The misattributed Clinton quote drew the attention of the Mods, then the (possibly intentional) misleading Bali timeline did him in.
I usually stay out of these threads but I’m another who feels this place will be duller for the loss of december. I almost never agreed with him but I can’t recall seeing him do much that was banworthy. There’s usually a good reason for these things so it can’t hurt to hear why he’s gone.
You get shot with a 1920’s style “Ray Gun”?
Yeah I think that’s it.
You know a thread is going well when you get Jay and Silent Bob quotes.
Conversely Una, you wouldn’t have ever started a OP like the one linked by Squink. Take a read. Would you have put up with such behavior?
Howyadoin,
Yep, it’s hard to run a proper circle-jerk when everyone wants to use their left hand except that one annoying bastard that insists on using his right… Glad to see order has been restored. Please carry on, nothing to see here…
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Umm… they seem to given him a little extra bit of rope there and told him to go and sin no more re the little bait and switch trick he pulled (or he would be banned) so it must be something else.
Gaudere’s post in that thread
I see this and similar assertions a lot, and they baffle me. Which of these statements is ruder?
A: Fuck off, asshole!
B: Considering, sir, that you have contributed to the grisly murders of thousands of people and that you encourage attacks like those on the World Trade Center, I wonder: how do you live with yourself?
For myself, assuming that statement B is untrue, I consider it to be far ruder than statement A. December excels at cloaking horrific insults and accusations in superficially polite language. Rather than making him polite, it simply points further to his fundamental dishonesty.
Daniel
I’m sorry to see him go. He made utterly ridiculous partisan ultra-conservative points that were shot out the sky like clay pigeons blasted by nukes. They were helpful reminders of why I’m not a conservative.
IANAMOA but IMO as a poster, you have no worries: you don’t troll, you state your opinions with strong feeling but respect for those who disagree with you, you don’t play annoying games contrary to the function of the forum.
With particular and understandable exceptions, the Admins. don’t ban based on content, but rather on an unwillingness to abide by the rules of the board. Your opinions may be minority ones, but you express them in a gentlemanly fashion and within the rules.
What’s to worry about?
You misread the situation. december certainly got attacked from every angle, but the baiting was done by december himself. No-one forced december to post inflammatory and dishonest OPs.
wow. This place won’t be the same without him. Though I occasionally agreed with him, most of the time I thought his opinions were poorly thought out at best. Still, I’ll miss him.
I’m not in the least bit surprised. It’s damn shame, because - like Collounsbury, Satan and Danielinthewolvesden - he was intelligent, articulate and had interesting perspectives. He’s the sort of person I come to this site to commune with. But he wasn’t content to debate as a person “fighting ignorance”; he wasted his time and ours by being a propagandist. There were several occasions over the last 18 months or so where I thought he just might have turned away from it - coinciding, no doubt with warnings from staff - but a guy with 7000+ who posts as he has in the last month is just determined to stomp on the thin ice.