Author: allan johnson
Date: 03:25:30 01/02/02
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On January 01, 2002 at 23:31:49, Christophe Theron wrote:
>On January 01, 2002 at 17:27:32, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Opinion:
>>Banning is not an act that should be done by vote of the CCC membership.
>>
>>Will we remove everyone who is unpopular? Unpopular opinions are necessary, as
>>they test out our ideas. I really like some of the posters who are less popular
>>than the others.
>>
>>Banning should be done by the moderators based upon their reasoned opinions.
>>
>>I notice that he has not posted here for a few days and that his old posts seem
>>to be gone.
>>
>>I suspect that the moderators may have already taken appropriate action (whether
>>banning, or kicking him out for a week or whatever).
>>
>>Aside from this board, if he is doing illegal things, then he should be arrested
>>and put in jail. But I don't think the board should act on his outside
>>activities. Of course, that is a judgement call, and if the moderators feel
>>differently, they should be free to do as they see best.
>>
>>Since the issue has now died down (one way or another -- maybe Gogi just knocked
>>it off...) then I don't see a lot of value in trying to have a trial by opinion
>>poll.
>>
>>Sometimes, posters just get off on the wrong foot. 'ERIC' springs to mind. He
>>started off with a flurry of stuff that was pretty odd, but he soon calmed down.
>>
>>As for passionate people -- I say the more the merrier. No sense turning this
>>place into a library. Of course, whatever anyone does should be within the
>>confines of the charter.
>>
>>And there is always CTF (which seems to be pretty well a free for all right
>>now).
>
>
>
>That's a lot of patience, philosophy and intelligence for somebody who most
>certainly does not deserve it.
>
>This place is quite strange. You can kick anybody in the ass and have a good
>laugh then watching people wondering "was it such a bad action?", "isn't it
>useful in some way?", "what is justice eventually?", "Should we take action?",
>"Do we have the right to take action?" and so on (watch the discussion
>degenerate into "is there a god?", "is there life on Mars?", "isn't Goran the
>inventor of the Rubik's cube?"...).
>
>We are weak.
>
> We are also human which means we can respond to different situations in
a multitude of ways. I personally don't see that as a bad thing.
Cheers Al
>
> Christophe
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