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Precisely - that's kind of a problem. In the meantime, all we have is where it was left:
I spent quite a long time talking with Mod, explaining that if he had any legitimate concerns that he wanted to talk about that he could talk to me directly and I would look into it, but he refused to take up that offer, chosing instead to start contacting people left right and centre with a 'revolutionary' agenda which basically consisted of writing shit everywhere and pissing everyone off. After I specifically asked mod to cool things down for a few days, he promised that his suit would be 'dead' for at least three days. During this time, I was forwarded correspondence that during this time he was just writing posts, getting other people to put them online (I might be wrong in this - but I believe sentience's thread was one of these) and continue to try persuade people to join in with his little campaign of rampant infantilism.
I made it clear the other day that I wasn't going to let this board be hijacked, blackmailed or pressured by people name-calling, trolling and spamming, and I meant it. I'll let the members concerned back on the board when they've apologised honestly for their behaviour and demonstrated that they're able to act even vaguely like adults.
I was inclined to leave him be as long as he successfully didn't start stirring or picking fights. Unfortunately, he has not been smart enough even to do this - he's created a situation where we have to deal with it. I warned him several times that he was making it impossible for him not to be treated as a troll. He is apparently unable to comprehend the idea that he has been banned, and was only allowed back on unmolested because we were being nice. Regrettably, he appears to have decided that this means we are weak, and intends to take advantage of it.
It's a real shame, but we do have a modus operandi for dealing with people who have been banned and sneak back in with a new fictionsuit, then make it impossible for us to ignore the fact that they are the banned party. We minimise their ability to interact with Barbelith, usually by deleting their posts where it will not damage the integrity of threads irreparably, until Tom is in a position to take further action. As such, right now, since Modzy has demonstrated again that he is not able to shake his obsession with me and other posters, I am treating his posts as, within those structures, fair game for moves to delete. Of course, if my brother and sister moderators don't agree with this, and choose not to agree the deletions, or only to delete or move to delete when they find a post of his that is insulting or abusive, that's entirely their choice.
However, let's not piss around. Modzero/Godog/the cat's iao *is* banned - it just happenes that the login name he is using has not yet been shut out of Barbelith. In the absence of a "ban user" button, I as a moderator am happy to use those powers I do have to enforce this ban, by removing his unwanted presence from threads and from the board, until either Tom is in a position to add this login name to the other login names that have been banned because they belong to him, or M/G/tci decides to apologise to Tom and start behaving like he means it, or Tom tells us to act in another way when confronted with banned posters sneaking back in with false moustaches.
That's pretty much where we are now. Again, I hoped this thread would give him an incentive to calm down, but he is not emotionally equipped to cope with any sort of moderation from within himself, and as such moderation has to be supplied from without. That's us. |
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