Administrative notes: two bans
After some pondering, I’ve decided to ban qatzelok and Jean Naimard. Jean Naimard’s recent “you should get that big square head of your anglo-saxon arse” and qatzelok’s antisemitism have persuaded me that the level of discussion and the general tone around here are being dragged down by their presence. They are not interested in debate or discussion, but in trolling and haranguing. It’s tiresome. I’ve had enough.
Blork 16:06 on 2012/08/22 Permalink
+1!
jeather 16:09 on 2012/08/22 Permalink
Thank you.
Taylor C. Noakes 16:17 on 2012/08/22 Permalink
How about running a program that replaces words like ‘imperialist’ ‘Anglo-Saxon’ ‘block-head’ ‘Westmount Rhodesian’ etc with ‘rainbows’ ‘unicorns’ ‘puppies’ ‘cotton-candy’ ‘Ferris wheel’ ‘debutante ball’ etc.
Could make for some fun.
No\Deli 16:23 on 2012/08/22 Permalink
^Marxist Mad Libs?
Kid A 16:42 on 2012/08/22 Permalink
The Banhammer has fallen! *applauds*
Ian 17:01 on 2012/08/22 Permalink
I applaud this choice.
Alex L 17:15 on 2012/08/22 Permalink
I agree with you, Kate.
Marc 17:33 on 2012/08/22 Permalink
Ah so you guys got to hear from the infamous Jean Naimard. He’s all over the internet spewing his über, mega, hardcore, hardline nationalist diatribes. He’s 10,000x the separatist Jacques Parizeau is.
Kate 17:44 on 2012/08/22 Permalink
Yes, he hadn’t been here long, but it was enough.
William 21:18 on 2012/08/22 Permalink
Thank God. Well done Kate.
dwgs 08:25 on 2012/08/23 Permalink
While I am in complete agreement with the move, I’ll miss the ‘driving slowly by the car wreck while shaking my head in amazement’ entertainment value.
@Taylor C. Noakes +1.
Oh and you realize that they will both take this as a vindication of their respective worldviews ;-).
Kate 08:47 on 2012/08/23 Permalink
Yes, dwgs, I know they’re likely to do that – but I decided I didn’t care.
dwgs 09:02 on 2012/08/23 Permalink
Nor should you.
Tux 09:55 on 2012/08/23 Permalink
Good work, and kudos on being as tolerant as you were for so long!
cheese 11:14 on 2012/08/23 Permalink
Thanks for informing the blog about the banhammer Kate. I may miss some of qatzelok comments because they came from a place so far outside my experience. For example I had never heard of the arguments about the “ango hospitals” before. I did not know that people thought this way.
Jean N is another matter, when he found this blog recently I thought “uh oh”. I have seen his comments other places online and think he may suffer from some form of mental illness. LIke many others I’m glad he won’t be wrecking the atmosphere here. Thanks again.
Herve 11:40 on 2012/08/23 Permalink
Merci Kate
William 13:15 on 2012/08/23 Permalink
I think you guys are giving them too much credit (with the possible exception of the mental illness comment). I didn’t see any ideology there, I just saw pure trolling.