A quick search takes me to this thread, which makes it clear that liberal was suspended by the admins for one month. So, the status was not voluntary but neither is it a banning. TubaDiva is not specific about exactly what led to the decision, but does mention “recent events”. It is certainly reasonable to conlude that the “I’m dying” post was a contributing factor, but it is also possible that the other factors were involved.
It is clear, though, that the staff has not concluded that liberal is a troll, since the punishment for that would be banning.
Oh . . . and in case you were expecting me to start a PIT thread about the suspension. I see no need. Whatever impelled the mods to take their action, they managed to express their position without spitting bile in a man’s revealed wound.
Defending him? He hardly needs me to do that (or at least did not when he was able to post).
I have criticized 2 posters for their lack of human compassion. This defends liberal exactly so much as it defends you or I or any other poster who might next become the target of their spite.
If you are referring to the other thread, there I counseled liberal to not change his posting style in an attempt to please his vocal detractors. About that posting style, I don’t think my description could be fairly classified as a defense or a condemnation, except insofar as I did not find him to be deliberately hurtful. My exact words were:
In that thread, I also counseled those detractors to exercise responsibility for their own board experience and simply not respond to posts that they find objectionably off topic. Those posters, in the midst of their own righteous attempt at instilling “proper” message board behavior in liberal, found it horribly self-righteous and presumptive of me to dare recommend that they change their own message board habits. What this indicates is left as an exercise for the reader.
Ya know…if it wasn’t against the rules, I’d acuse you of being a Liberal sock.
NOBODY but, NOBODY, besides Liberal has posts that long that have nothing to do about a fucking thing.
If I’m out of line, then please feel free to tell me. If he isn’t Liberal, then feel free to ram me in the ass for assuming what should have been obvious to everyone…
Wow, what a telling retort. You certainly have demonstrated the quality of you reasoning and the depths of your insight.
Don’t worry, though, I wouldn’t dream of ramming anything in your ass. The thought of inflicting further brain damage upon you is simply too tragic to contemplate.
Possibly that they enabled him to spend more quality time with his loved ones rather than in pointless and interminable arguments on a anonymous message board.
Not quite correct. Lib can’t answer immediately, but once his suspension is up he’s free to answer in whatever way he chooses.
Suspension does not equal banning. Not unless the one suspended continues upon his/her return to engage in the same conduct that led to the suspension.
Since you are in a mood to pick at nits, my sentence was exactly correct. "Nothing like calling a man names when he cannot answer, I guess." The word “when” indicates a specic period of time in which a post cannot be answered. The meaning you would like to critique would be more appropriately worded, “Nothing like calling a man who can never answer you names.”
But thank you so much for showing up and illuminating us all with that little bit of misguided pedanticism. These demonstrations do so much to foster the idea that language can be used with precision and clarity.
