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@Patrick

The uncivil limit is unfortunate. Trolls can keep posting the same thing over and over because you hit a limit and can't keep rightly marking them as uncivil.

Yes, it's a dilemma. It could also work the other way where one user marks comments as uncivil over and over.

Thinking I should have deputized users who can liberate civil (or edited to be civil) comments from jail.

Ok I volunteer...

Patrick says

Thinking I should have deputized users who can liberate civil (or edited to be civil) comments from jail.

Everyone,please don't say anything that my tender can't deal with.

For the children:
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But names will never harm me.

joeyjojojunior says

It is uncivil to ban someone from your thread and then continue to insult them because you know they can't answer. So I marked them rightly as uncivil.

Grow up.

You were the one who intimated that I was stupid by responding you would only use one word syllables, instead of adding context to your post. I banned you for attempting to de-rail the thread. I can only take so much of your off-the-cuff rants, without any pretext of ever reading the linked data.

Any one who wants to can read that thread and see there were ZER-O personal attacks against you.

joeyjojojunior says

because you hit a limit and can't keep rightly marking them as uncivil.

That feature works exactly as its supposed to. It prevents butt-hurt people from censoring patnet. Patrick should have revoked your uncivil privileges, that was blatant abuse.

NuttBoxer says

That feature works exactly as its supposed to. It prevents butt-hurt people from censoring patnet. Patrick should have revoked your uncivil privileges, that was blatant abuse.

lol--the only butt-hurt person was the one who banned someone because they had a different opinion. God forbid someone smarter than you try to teach you a bit about history.

Nuttboxer obviously isn't a fan of free speech.

And just fyi--

The Civil War started because the North wanted to keep the United States whole. Not to eradicate slavery in the South. So your points about how Lincoln's opinion evolved on slavery are pretty much irrelevant.

Patrick says

Yes, it's a dilemma. It could also work the other way where one user marks comments as uncivil over and over.

Thinking I should have deputized users who can liberate civil (or edited to be civil) comments from jail.

Or you could just make your life easy by deleting the accounts of the worst trolls.

Dan8267 says

Or you could just make your life easy by deleting the accounts of the worst trolls.

Should we have a vote on which accounts to ban? Which do you suppose the most people would consider trolls? I know this guy who posts long winded rants, has a history of posting disgusting gay porn, constantly feuds with other users rather than having a civil argument, and bans everyone who doesn't agree with him. Sounds like troll #1!

Quigley says

Should we have a vote on which accounts to ban?

Why not just literally give the patrick.net domain to the trolls? Do you think all 11,116 registered users are going to vote? The ballot box would be dominated by the trolls and their alts. This is obvious.

If you want PatNet to die by being taken over by troll, then by all means go ahead.

Quigley says

disgusting gay porn

Do you think there is non-disgusting gay porn?

Quigley says

and bans everyone who doesn't agree with him

Can't be me. I'm friends with as many people I disagree with than I have banned, and I've only banned for trolling and propaganda. The fact that you don't differentiate between trolling and disagreeing is your problem. For me, it's easy.

We all have differing opinions about posts and posters, Dan. If you missed it, that was my point. Your troll is someone else's hero. And you are definitely a troll to many others here. Asking for authoritarian solutions is just like when the Jews got behind the philosophy of eugenics in early 20th century Germany. Then Hitler came along and applied that very authoritarian (and vile) thinking against them.

If you don't watch it, you'll be hoisted on your own Nazi petard!

joeyjojojunior says

lol--the only butt-hurt person was the one who banned someone because they had a different opinion.

NuttBoxer says

I banned you for attempting to de-rail the thread.

You know one of the signs of insanity is lying about reality to make yourself look right...

"You know one of the signs of insanity is lying about reality to make yourself look right..."

Like this?

"NuttBoxer says

I banned you for attempting to de-rail the thread."