cShaggy wrote: 
I'm not sure if banned is entirely accurate.  Up until now the convention for the truly well over the line offensive posters (like our old friend Mark for instance) has been to put a "DD " in front of their user name and immediately delete all their forum posts and song comments.  RT's account, like several others who seem to have left of their own accord, has been changed to "(former member)".  In the later cases their posts may or may not be deleted but are often difficult to find as they get confused with all the other other "(former member)"s.  Romeo's MO was more to try to come as close to the line as he could yet not go too far over and still be as annoying as possible.  Hopefully he has lost interest in us and will not be back. He had put himself in self exile in the journals for a little while before his last little fling.  He/she may just be revamping their act before rejoining us in a new package though.

 

'Lily' is on track. Best let this thread die. I never read anything untoward from Romeo, but I'm not on here every day of the week. Bill and Rebecca have laid out clear expectations for this site, and I'm supportive in their right to "ban" whomever for whatever reason. Collectively, we seem to be a pretty intelligent bunch with a shared taste of music. So eventually, wouldn't/shouldn't the riff-raff get kicked to the curb? Or just leave? Anyway ... I'm done with this thread.
/M.
 

 lily34 wrote: 

 cShaggy wrote: 
DINGDINGDINGDING!!!
 
Give the man a cigar. Now.  Leave us let sleeping perverted foot fetishist creepos lie.

..i never saw anything disgusting by the ol' `tuma..inane, sure, but why's 
  that a crime??..actually, he was most conciliatory (it seemed) whenever someone
  griped about his posting-style (& that's all it was..like i say, sorta a personal meme
  he had going)..

..unless he was posting here in the forum & being particularly vile..i dunno..haven't
  seen that either, but i'm more of a casual forum-ite..

bokey wrote: 

 Coaxial wrote: 
No thank you.

 lily34 wrote: 
RT was banned for things like this.

 Umberdog wrote: 

 Umberdog wrote:  fuckoff asshat.

that's worth reading.

 lily34 wrote: 
I have never ignored you. That would be rude. Besides, someday you might say something worth reading... and I wouldn't want to miss that.

 Umberdog wrote: 
i like it better when you and i ignore each other. let's go back to that.

 lily34 wrote: 
Can we please stop trying to rule it over each other? I doubt it.

Reminds me of a Tears For Fears song. 

can we please let this thread die already? lord...

 oldviolin wrote: 
Is not.

 Umberdog wrote: 
Sorry, but this is total BS

 kurtster wrote: 
You're right, Kurtster. The social paradigm often confuses me. We need to be mindful of our fear of words and the intolerance of our peers. At least we no longer burn people for crossing the line. We just cast them down and out to get that warm fuzzy feeling of seeming better than they are... more civilized or something.

The word freedom used to be commonly linked with another word ... responsibility.

ie.,  with freedom comes responsibility

an uplifting notion, not an excuse or opportunity to lower the bar.

another exercise of freedom is to allow someone enough rope to hang themselves.

 cShaggy wrote: 
Because freedom is a pipe dream. You know what they say about self expression? Well it only works when you're like everyone else.

 cShaggy wrote: 
Check his disgusting posts out and draw you own conclusions.

Of course hopefully BillG scrubbed his filth away. He pretty much made the song comments section unbearable with his inanity.

 michaelgmitchell wrote: 



..banned?..whyfor?..i sorta liked his hotel room inanity..was like his personal meme..

..why the banning?..