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Except that that stops it being a banning thread, although it's a bollock of a banning thread to start with, and turns into - what, a catalogue of grievances, to be trotted out at some point when we have the power to ban?
First up, that power is not going to be conferred, or more precisely nothing that has happened so far suggests that it will. Banning will remain a matter of somebody contacting Tom directly and hoping for the best.
Second up, I've explained how one might go about banning Alex's grandma so many times now that I am beginning to suspect that nobody actually wants to ban him. Collecting instances of his running battle of offence taking and giving with whomever else is involved is not going to cut it, especially because taken out of context the responses can themselves seem disproportionate. So, let's try again.
Banning on Barbelith took place generally as a result of spamming, suit hijacking, holocaust denial or harassment. Certain behaviour is so offensive that it counts as harassing even if the people involved are not clearly identifiable as targets - so, one can harass by making outspokenly racist, sexist or homophobic statements even if one is not makign them intentionally about anyone on the board. AG is not doing any of those things. He is, however, behaving in a way that is clearly upsetting to some other users of Barbelith, and seems unwilling or unable to moderate his behaviour - for example, by not posting in the Temple. So, the argument would be that this upsetting behaviour is either malicious or pathological, and in either case that if he cannot undertake to or abide by an undertaking to stop doing it, he should be removed from Barbelith.
If we are banning for causing some people offence, of course, and being unable to shut up, I have a list of people who ought to be banned, for their own good or the good of the tattered remnants of the community. That's editorial, however, and also too late. |
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