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Jokes aside. I don’t think Fayguy is such a bad guy, it’s just that sometimes he floods the boards and argues for the sake of arguing.
Still, you gotta abide by rules.
He had more than enough warning so his banning is totally fair and reasonable.
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I don’t think he’s a bad guy either. It was a good idea for him to get his own space for renegade journalism, and I’m glad it attracted like-minded people and it grew so quickly. Since he got it he’s been more often polite to me than not, but who wants to be associated with someone who thinks its funny to repeatedly anger your friends, you know? That’s just not cool. He’s a smart guy, he knows that, but he’s an infector by nature so he just doesn’t care.
Listening to him rant about political freedom in the middle of threads about spaceships is kind of like watching someone stand up and talk about football during a church service. While people may be interested in talking about football in the parking lot or while watching a game, they don’t go to church to discuss it.
(I’m not interested in either, myself, but you see what I mean…. about the sacred turf that is sci-fi cult 😉 )
I can’t take credit for the “pissing on the floor” analogy. It’s an old expression applied to people who like to mark their territory by offending other people. We used to use it to describe an acquaintence who thought it was funny to break his beer bottles on the dance floor so the DJ would have to stop playing a song he didn’t like while someone turned on the lights and cleaned it up. I think I saw Nursewhen or Streudel use it once or twice, too, ’round these parts.
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