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Tell me why people like Sven7 get away with pretty much any lazy rhetoric, including literally repeating the same senseless 4 word question several times in lieu of writing a real post? How is it that when he complained about my desire to "censor" him for spamming the thread nobody reminded him of the irony of being a staunch supporter of government censorship? Honestly, tell me how this works.

Look at his behavior in this thread and tell me it's perfectly fine. I mean this seriously, you're a user with gigantic amounts of karma, certainly more than I'll ever have. If you think it's OK, I'll cede that I clearly had the wrong idea about how this place should work, and I'll apologize for overstepping.



It's not fine, that's why his repeated cheap shots about 'do you have kids' were removed. On the other hand, two wrongs don't make a right - the notion of permanently banning him from participating doesn't make a lot of sense either.


Two wrongs? You're really asserting that stating my opinion was at least as bad as his behavior? Granted, it's probably a good thing I don't have the power to actually ban someone, but I think I did a reasonable job of at trying to explain the rationale behind my wish. And why doesn't the notion of banning make sense in this case? People have certainly been hellbanned for less.


Stop taking it so personally. All I did was point out that your request was somewhat ironic, now you're projecting your anger at him onto me.




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