Both of you calm down. Don’t bring a personal feud into ATMB.
JohnT, can you honestly not see the difference between ‘Nobody talk to Max S’ and posts where your arguments are described as being poor? That’s the very definition of ‘attack the post, not the poster’.
On another topic, remember this, every time you - or anyone - reports a post it is reviewed by all three of us independently and any of the three of us - Tom, Bone and myself - are empowered to act unilaterally. It’s a good chance that if there no action then the post you reported doesn’t cross the line. And lest you accuse us of political leanings and bias you should know that the three of us are all over the place politically.
On the ‘whistleblower’ thing? We actually discussed it - the full mod loop, not just the three GD and Elections mods - and decided that the name was out there. Given that it was fair to discuss it. Don’t delude yourself that having it on the SDMB is somehow going to be the thing that forces the issue at the Congressional level or move the actual media needle in any way.
In terms of the economics of trolling I have no comment. I can say that I’ve had long, substantive conversations with the powers that be - both Ed and, following his departure folks who replaced him as management - and not once has such a thing been brought up. We - at least I, the others can chime in if they have a different experience - have little knowledge about the finances and economics of the SDMB and there’s no indication that’s going to change.