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Pastimes : SI's Apple trolls, their methods and motivations
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From: Heywood4010/4/2013 9:52:17 PM
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Apple Tankwatch

After seeing a fellow SI member banned from Apple Tankwatch for name-calling, I understandably became curious about how a board that was founded on the concept of name-calling and whose most frequent contributors make a specialty of namecalling could justify banning someone else from engaging in the same type of activity.

Here's how it works. The Apple trolls on that board are free to insult, denigrate and name-call all of humanity in their quest to make Apple appear to look bad. They do this on an hourly basis.

If someone responds to them in kind, they are banned.

Their rule is simple. Namecalling of SI members and their families is prohibited.

That means all the monkeys flinging feces there are free to fling them at any and all things related to Apple, but no one who wishes to speak up on behalf of Apple is allowed to fling any feces back.

In the spirit of fair play, I'm offering those who have had their free speech suppressed on the Apple Tankwatch board equal time here on this board for anyone who wishes to fling the troll's feces back at them.

My rules are simple, too.

No one posting on this board may insult, denigrate or name-call anything related to Apple.

Everyone posting on this board is encouraged to engage in the same sort of behavior the trolls on the Apple Tankwatch board do, by insulting, denigrating and namecalling all Apple trolls, their friends, family members, pets, cars, hobbies, favorite colors, favorite foods and whatever else you can think of, while staying within the guidelines of SI management.
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