# Huey Freeman is banned

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**Created:** [January 29, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huey-freeman-is-banned/828587 "2019-01-29T02:18:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huey-freeman-is-banned/828587/25 "2019-01-29T04:01:20Z")

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> You expect to have a group attack someone and as a consequence of responding the pitted gets banned with no warning? C’mon now. Huey called me names and I thought some of what he said was mean. However, it’s no meaner than a lot of other stuff that his targets who are now complaining have themselves directed at others.
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> This strikes me as unfair.

My personal thoughts, but if you think this was about him saying mean names, you’re wrong. Huey wasn’t here to participate in discourse or discussion. He was here to attack other posters. All he did was attack people in the Pit. That’s troll behavior.

Imagine if every time a poster shared some story of a personal nature, or some tragedy they experienced, Huey was there to take that element of sharing and use it to incessantly attack that poster in the Pit? Would that be okay? If someone has a kid who dies of cancer and shares that story, is it okay for Huey to use that kid’s cancer death to attack a poster (hypothetical) would that be okay? That they were better off dead because they wouldn’t have to deal with a poster? If not, then there is a line somewhere even in the Pit that is jerk and troll behavior. And if that was all they ever did?

That type of attack is destructive to community because it closes off any incentive to form community. Why bother participating when people like him will use any and all manner to attack you over it.

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