The Care and Feeding of Trolls

[Marcus]

To what purpose is your ludicrous response directed? I ask that with all seriousness.

I’m simultaneously poking fun at myself and heckling Binger’s insistence that I be banned.

Oh. So, a comedic interlude. My apologies, I thought you meant 'purposeful' in a different way.

Getting back to the topic:

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...You know full well who is trolling, and you've identified it as such yourself. Bending over backward to be fair in allowing free speech should end when the 'free-speechers' clearly and repeatedly acknowledge they are here to destroy a community.

Can the moderators PLEASE do some research into trolling, the damaging effects of trolling on established communities, and the relationship between trolling and the abuse of free speech? Shades is being taken advantage of here. His free speech position is not well thought out, and he's a sitting duck for the abuses trolls look for when attempting to take down communities.... I understand he is not mentally in a position to deal with this now, all the more reason to let others handle it. The captain can get well without sinking the ship.

[Philo Sofee]

...Shades is being taken advantage of here. His free speech position is not well thought out, and he's a sitting duck for the abuses trolls look for when attempting to take down communities. ... I understand he is not mentally in a position to deal with this now, all the more reason to let others handle it. The captain can get well without sinking the ship.

I heartily agree. He needs to delegate authority now.

We PROMISE we won't compare him to the Mormon prophet who delegates authority either, but delegate it he truly ought to...