In an attempt to avoid the chickens she laid coming home to roost, RSSchen has now become MizGrand. I think it is important that Dopers are aware of this name change now and in the future (if she has any here), so you know what kind of poster you are dealing with when she posts in the future. She is a pathological liar and not to be trusted. I don’t think she can contribute positively to any future discussions, because we cannot trust her. We all participate here on the basis that the people we interact with are honest or at least not intentionally deceiving us (which is part of why trolls get banned). RSSchen/MizGrand has proven her deceptive nature, and I do not think she belongs here.
You don’t just lay all your dirty business out on a public message board, post way too many personal things, change your story umpteen times, then get scared and run to an administrator to have your name changed to protect the guilty. That is pure bullshit, and she needs to go.
And if she does get banned, please don’t delete her posts/threads, like you do with other trolls and socks at what not-that would only be rewarding her.
Woah, what? What has she done - on this board - that is in violation of any of the rules or membership agreements?
She’s a liar - granted, but not against the rules.
She’s a drug addict - granted, but not against the rules.
She’s an adulterer - granted, but not against the rules.
She’s possibly (probably) mentally ill - granted, but not against the rules.
She’s (possibly) still in denial about her responsibility for her own actions and situation - granted, but not against the rules.
She’s not as smart as she thinks she is - granted, but not against the rules. Hell, it’s practically compulsory!
She’s not proven to be a sock or a troll or a jerk on this board. Any banning of her reeks of a good game of stone the harlot and I can’t get behind it. A decent and honorable population doesn’t kill one of their own simply because they are troubled and delusional. Make people aware of it so they know who they’re dealing with, sure. But ban?!
So, should we craft of a general policy of banning anyone whose life choices are distasteful to a large number of posters, or is this to be a one-time thing? :dubious:
I hope this thread isn’t closed, just because it’s useful to know RSSchen and MizGrand are one and the same (although it strikes as sort of vigilante mod-ism, but eh). But I don’t think she should be banned. Just ensure people know who she is.
That being said, aren’t you over-reacting a tiny bit? Banning?
I skipped over a lot of the relevant threads, did I miss the ban-worthy bits?
Unless I missed something big, (and I’ll allow that I may have) wouldn’t a more proportionate response be to withold trust as far as any potential romantic relationship or advice is concerned?
Or maybe adding <COLOR=“255,0,0”>A</COLOR> to her membership status?
This forum is really ban happy. Why should she be banned? Because she lied? How do you know that 90% of the people here aren’t lying about one thing or another? Because she posted too much personal info that doesn’t match up with previous stories? Again, there are lots of people who have done that.
If she doesn’t post personal info again and sticks to crap like where do I keep my birth control or do I have hair in my ass crack, what do you care?
Oh no, let me make it clear that I am in no way thinking she should be banned because of her sexual morality. That has absolutely nothing to do with it. I think she should be banned because she is trolling with our integrity, and trolling is indeed against the rules.
Well, I don’t actually think she should be banned, although I understand where featherlou is coming from.
This whole deal feels a bit like that fiasco back when I first signed up (and dinosaurs still walked the earth) where some woman (whose user name I don’t remember) kept starting threads about her dying son. Or dying cousin. Or dying aunt. Or some relative dying. And in fact posted from the hospital room as the person died. Riiiiight.
It’s creepy and manipulative and it does indeed feel like we’re being trolled.
But I don’t about banning. Shunning, on the other hand, I could get behind. I’m always in the mood for a good shun.
What does “trolling with our integrity” mean? My understanding of trolling (which might be wrong, of course) is that it’s posting something you don’t mean in order to rile people up (not the same as clearly being Devil’s Advocate or posting an unpopular but validly held position, or changing your mind later.) If you have evidence that she’s done this (like, for example, if you have reason to believe she HASN’T been cheating on her husband and just led us all on a merry dance for 10+ pages for her own personal amusement), by all means share it with the mods in a private email or hit the alert button on her post. Those are the proper ways to report bad behavior and effectively “ask” for a banning. This is just organizing a lynch mob. And I’m afraid, the Dope being the contrarian kind of place that it is, that you may find the mob turning to lynch you. Mobs, especially Doper mobs, are notoriously difficult to aim.
I don’t even know what this MEANS, but it still sounds like a bad idea.
MizGrand has the big red “A” (wow, how eerily congruent) on her now.
Let her work to remove it, just like we’d want to happen to us.
Remember START? That’s a poster that might have turned the corner. Maybe MizGrand can succeed where he failed.
It’s a message board, not an island colony. The more appropriate metaphor here is a big party. You don’t like one of the invitees, ignore her. Don’t complain to the host that she ought to be thrown out.
I don’t understand what you mean by “trolling with our integrity.” When we say trolling is against the rules, we mean a specific type of behavior, not any action that can be described using the word troll. Trolling for compliments is not against the rules. Trolling for trout is not against the rules.
Heck, why not just call it emotional terrorism and lock her up in Guantanamo? Terrorism is against the law, after all.