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Charming though your stream of consciousness is DD, perhaps "it's like a witchhunt, it's like a lynching. Oh. No, it isn't." might not add a huge amount of clarity. Also, DEDI is still active on the board, as this discussion so far has made quite clear, so I am unsure where your last paragraph came from.
Now. Bear in mind that in the greater scheme of things Scarlet_156 didn't actually do anything that bad - she made some utterly cretinous posts in a few threads, which she then failed to support, and then started popping up whining about how nasty British people were, and then started a pisstake thread about the British sailors held in Iran. Annoying, but not awful. Some Islamophobia and other tosh, which she then did not respond to questions about.
The issue there is not that she did anything particularly bannable, but rather that she was irritating and gave no evidence that she was ever likely to contribute anything of any value to offset that. Not that this is hard and fast, of course - we had some idiots claiming that the Fetch's gematria was sufficiently interesting to put up with or indeed explore his ideas about the Holocaust not having happened.
So, the knowledge that she was never likely to do or say anything worthwhile makes the mild irritation factor of most of her posts more irritating. See dragon, also.
Morpheus was a bit different, as he regularly behaved in an actively offensive way to people and made offensive statements. He would then disappear for prolonged periods of time, so there was never a sustained level of irritation and he did not really reach the density of a troll.
DEDI's recent activities have not been trollsome, particularly - they have, however, shown no real ability, before willingness even becomes an issue, to interact with other people on Barbelith in any positive way. He has not apparently registered or understood anything that was said in the BDSM thread, and there is no evidence that he will. I don't read his contributions to the Temple with much attention, but he appears primarily to make long, incomprehensible posts and then disappear.
So, the issue here is not really that someone is currently trolling, indulging in harrassment, or indulging in any of the -isms that might get a head of steam behind a banning thread, but that someone is being annoying, is not responding to any requests not to be annoying and does not give any reason to suggest that any further contribution will be at best more improved than "less annoying", and also that he has in the past, as Ganesh said, presented us with a very clear case of harrassing and abusive behaviour for which he probably only escaped banning for by climbing down. The case for morpheus actually trolling was much clearer than Scarlet_156, although sufficiently diffuse to be less obvious than DEDI, but a number of factors - I imagine not least that it seemed _less_ emotionally damaging to wait for him to disappear again than to go through the effort and upset of a banning thread. If banning remains such a production, this will no doubt be the saving of many a borderline troll.
There's also the question of one's limitations, in terms of wit or mental health. The otehr thing about morpheus was surely that at least some of us, at least some of the time, just felt sorry for him - see 33 and Paranoidwriter as other examples of same. |
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