If you are trying to hound me off SI, E, it's not going to work.
As to going " rather far to win the right to make deposits in her inbox against her will," I don't know what you think you know about that situation, but not all of it, I am quite sure, since I assume you are not privy to the complete record of private correspondence and PMs.
I was not demanding the right to make deposits in Poet's inbox against her will (a right which, I might add, both you and 'WinSmith feel free to exercise repeatedly against me, so obviously you don't think there's anything wrong with exercising that "right." ) I was not suspended for posting to Poet or for putting anything in her inbox.
I was suspended purely for writing a post to ANOTHER poster which included snippets from a post Poet had made. Poet chose to object to that, and Jeff chose to defend her.
Allowing Jeff to suspend me every time I might want to comment on something Poet had posted was a limitation on my freedom to post on SI that I was not willing to accept. What I "won," quite simply, was the right to post on SI according to the TOU without being treated differently from other posters. Basically, what I "won" was the right to use the membership I had paid for in accordance with the agreement I made with SI when I purchased it.
If you think that's somehow evil, or devious, or wicked, you are free to think so. I am satisfied that it was none of those things.
And frankly, E, I doubt that you would be willing, voluntarily, to accept a limitation that if you ever post to OR ABOUT me on SI, or cite anything I have posted, that you can and will be suspended immediately. Why don't you try that on for a month, and see how comfortably it fits on you. Starting right now. No more posting to me. No more posting about me. No more posting about anything I have posted. No more asking me to justify anything I have posted. No more challenging anything I post. You just let whatever I post sit out there, and do absolutely nothing about it.
If you aren't willing to live by those rules, then you shouldn't be surprised that I wasn't, either. Nor should you be surprised that the InfoSpace administration understood that such limits were unreasonable and inappropriate. |
