Somewhere a bridge has gained its Troll back.

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680. Thanks...

I appreciate your response.

The admins were notified about quinnox's inappropriate action - by several hosts, as far as I can tell. However, since there was no expectation that the admins were available, I think hosts then used the F&G group to urge those who had acted inappropriately to undo what had been done (since the locking host was no longer online, that turned out to be futile).

I don't recall seeing hosts being harassed to take action (except for the locking host, who was the only one who COULD take action). And the posts wherein people argue that some hosts ignore certain alerts/alerters is tangential to this particular event - though I think it was triggered, in part, by the frustration caused by quinnox's abuse of the system.

Clearly, there are problems with the current hosting process, which were brought to the fore because of the actions of a troll (who had disrupted in the F&G group before, remember). Again, any fallout quinnox got, he earned.

As for the gravedancing thread, until there is a clear prohibition against them, I think they will continue to pop up - and people do seem to "enjoy" them, for whatever reason - just look at the number of replies.

The bottom line is: quinnox was trolling with those posts, and any negative treatment he received in those threads was wholly deserved. This isn't just "the ends justifying the means" - this is the "means being appropriate" at the time - he was called on his trolling, and he doubled down, so he was called on it repeatedly. He was NOT a victim.