Yes. How sad that someone risks threats of violence to stand up for the constitution

because, really, it's all about the delicate, easily hurt feelings of your invisible sky-man, and the fact that several million acres of tax-exempt church property in this country on which to post proclamations of biblical yammering isn't enough.

Something NEEDS to be done about all the zombies & sock puppets. Seriously.

I've been saying this for a while. Some people brag at other sites about their multiple identities. There's one particularly prolific ex-du'er who specialized in creating flame-fest threads, whose other specialty seems to have been fielding a veritable army of "you go, girl " sockpuppets.

Of course, "she" is banned so I'm sure "she" doesn't post here, anymore.

I'm sure.

But like I said in another H&M thread; talk of "banning" is meaningless if there are no teeth in the TOS about returning from the dead or playing the 3 faces of Eve game.

"and so I said, I will need this much additional stretching in my sphincter

...to accommodate the concomitant growth of my cerebral containment vessel"

Folks.. we're DOWN TO THE FINAL FOUR CONTESTANTS. Can you taste the Excrement?... Er, Excitement?

We need to acknowledge that Sticky Ricky is doing us a great service

he's actually articulating, out loud- force rape victims to remain pregnant, outlaw contraception, etc.- all the crazy fucking shit the anti-choice movement actually believes, but usually knows better than to say any time there's a camera nearby.

this whole god-damn thread is doing it. Don't be facile.

Oh, yeah, let's play the game where we pretend we don't know what this is all about. Give me a fucking break.

Chris "I'm voting 3rd Party... again!" Hedges can fuck himself.

And he can take Ralph Nader along for the ride, too. Given all the money Nader has taken from Republicans over the years, they ought to be able to afford a real nice go-fuck-themselves vacation.

No, my point is that if the admin doesn't deal with the zombies and the sockpuppets

'banning' is meaningless.

So, really, if you want this to be taken seriously, then the TOS needs to be clear that everyone is allowed one "life" and one name, and the MIR team needs to figure out a technological way to put a stop to clark kent constantly changing into superman.

Otherwise, your concerns CAN'T be addressed through the TOS, because the TOS has no real teeth.

I posted my opinion on that downthread.. What I'm saying here, though, is that "banning"

is essentially meaningless when members have a green light from the TOS to "keep coming back" like this is a 12 step meeting.

Or when they have an essential green light to keep a closet full of alter-ego identities that they can slap on every time they find a phone booth to change in.

These are real problems, and on DU2 at least there was an appearance of trying to deal with them. As things stand, I have no idea if the MIR team is actively engaged in trying to keep the dead from returning, or even if that's something that is considered a rule break.

So "banning" is essentially meaningless, although I do understand that some people might be attached to their username and/or post count.

"No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle.. even, and I want to make this perfectly clear

...even if they DO say Jehovah"




Monty Python's Life of Brian should be required viewing for DU: especially when we're dealing with the irony of people having locked threads for using a word that they're complaining about the use of, being allowed and not locked.

Topics will include: "Coping With Love- While Groping With Gloves"

"Love Potion #9, 6 oz. or less"

And

"Is that a box cutter in your carry-on, or are you just glad to see me?"