Keep in mind, this is largely the same mod staff that tolerated Clothahump for nearly 20 years and Starving Artist for the better part of a decade. The are numerous posters here who are basically just shitty trolls; Huey is far from the most prolific or obnoxious. I’m rarely happy to see him post either, but at least he keeps his shit mostly contained to a handful of threads, most of which are by or about him.
By comparison… Recently, we had a thread where a regular poster here got sick of the trolling of another member and decided to emulate their style. It was really on-point, too! In my eyes, it rather conclusively showed that this style of debate is designed to be intentionally infuriating and drive the conversation off course, and that the more we tolerate it, the worse the board gets - regardless of whether they’re doing it to troll intentionally or if that’s just how they post.
Another poster got so sick of a different poster’s nonsense that he posted this.
(To which I can only say: fucking cosigned, although I’m a little shocked that didn’t grab a warning.)
After 9 pages of this crap, the lone moderator action in the thread was to say it was on super special lockdown. This wasn’t a pit thread. It was in elections. Not that it would somehow be better in the pit.
Say what you will about Huey, he’s far from the worst around. If you avoid his threads, you can basically avoid him completely! That’s kind of odd for a troll, right?