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On reflection, wasn't I the person who moved to have Kristan's maiden name removed from a post, on the grounds that it wasn't respectful to publish personal details without her permission? I'm not sure whether that comes under "sleazy" or "abusive"...
On Morpheus - Tom has said that he would, if he had been reading the Temple, have banned one of the RRM suits on the grounds of anti-Semitism (or more precisely placing hir right to share his theories over the right of members not to read material which could have caused profoound offence), but one odd thing about Morpheus is that so far he has managed not to bring the Jews into his theories, so we're back to the question of whether, apart from Holocaust denial and/or the propagation of theories about Jewish conspiracies, a regular pattern of posts judged offensive on other grounds is cause for banning.
Basically, whenever there is a natural disaster or act of terror, Morpheus will pop up and say "told you so!" He will be indifferent to the offence caused or the suffering of those who have died or been wounded or made homeless, and will simply not understand that there is any operating factor in play beyond his predictions being proved right. He will then be mocked roundly, which may actually cause further offence. That's a tricky one. Generally, if we start kicking people off Barbelith for being tossers, where do we stop? Alternatively, if we do, we need to establish what constitutes bannable behaviour. |
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