Hoyt banned from the gungeon. So much for the impartiality of the group host.

[Decoy of Fenris]

37. In regards to Hoyt's banning:

I don't often post here, but I do lurk fairly often. With that said, I'd like to take a moment to examine the downfall of Hoyt from the eyes of a watcher, rather than someone emotionally invested in the conflicts within the group as a whole.

Since I started observing here in the RKBA, there were several figures who stood out to me as characters so outrageously ludicrous that they could only be considered caricatures of actual left-wingers. Hoyt was one of these. His behavior was offensive, his character was deliberately abraisive, and his views were that of a lunatic-fringe element of left-wing ideology. This continued, from my observations, until he was banned from this group.

Hoyt disregarded civility, instead opting for direct and brutal attacks on a person's character based solely on whether or not they owned a gun and, failing that, would insult a DUer above and beyond tolerable limits. It didn't matter if the DUer was a longtimer, a newcomer, hell, the person didn't even have to own a gun. All it took for Hoyt to attack someone was anything less than a "Ban all guns all the time" mentality. Such attacks were common, egregious, and predictable. If Hoyt was proven wrong, you knew, for a fact, that his next post would be an insult, or something akin to "You hate life! You love the culture of death!"

It's a fact of the matter that although Hoyt was banned, the "anti" community hasn't lost anything. In fact, I would daresay that with Hoyt gone, the gun-control advocates within this group have gained a certain measure of credibility back, whereas with Hoyt onboard, they were largely seen as reactionary knee-jerk ban-happy fruitcakes.


I applaud the work of the host in taking one of the most necessary of steps: Removal of a disruptive element whose sole purpose, it seemed, was antagonizing the members of this group and causing both dissention and aggravation among it's populace. It's never easy to take steps that may be considered biased by one side or the other without being accused of favoritism, but Hoyt's uncompromising and infamous rants were contributing nothing but animosity.


TL;DR version:

Nothing of value was lost.