To: rrufff who wrote (4847 ) 9/15/2003 12:52:22 PM From: Lazarus_Long Respond to After the second suspension, I purposely stayed away from a poster who I believe has severe mental problems. He has posted among other things that the Jewish religion condones pedophilia, necrophilia, has called posters he feels are Jewish "hook-nosed," "rats" and other assorted niceties, made reference to "matzoh balls" as anatomical as opposed to culinary, etc. He is vehemently against the Iraq war and often times seems to hate everyone, including himself and certainly the USA. Instead of responding to that poster, I commented to others that this person is a bigot, in fact a "self-knighted" one in reference to his moniker. When this poster read my posts, he decided to post to me again. I, at first, asked him not to do this giving him a reference to SI bob's prior requests or "commands." He persisted and I did respond but with fairly mild stuff. He even offered to meet me "in person" and continued with posts using religious stereotypes. My concern is that SI bob seemed to do this rather arbitrarily. Using the hockey analogy, I got the whistle for the retaliation or even 3d man in AFTER seeing my teamate being slashed. So, maybe the referee is always right because you don't want chaos, I can see this. However, this other poster's content has been so vitriolic, so hate-filled, so stereotypical "fighting words", that many have questioned his sanity. Those posts still exist. Si bob has been notified of them by me and by others. I may be wrong and would love to hear pro/con from others. I believe strongly that I was suspended for basically commenting that someone is a bigot, perhaps in a colorful or sarcastic way, while trying to avoid that person with direct posts and yet that poster continues to post and is apparently sanctioned by the powers that be here on SI. It makes it difficult to determine what is "appropriate" under the TOU as determined solely by the resident administrator and owner.
