Screw it . . .

[Zagatto]

Not all people are equal = not all posters are equal = you should be a little flexible with your bans, you don't need to treat everyone exactly the same. Treating a reaction from Vicious and the crap BE posts as the same is just plain stupid in my opinion.

You disagree that all people are not equal? So you're telling me that me (or you for that matter) and those 20 or so lazy-ass indians that live next-door to my girlfriend sucking up my tax money through their unfair use of welfare are equal people? I don't think so.

Where to start with this... I'm stopping home for 15 minutes just to respond to this so it wont be left hanging.

I guess the first problem would be defining a "crap" post. It's easy to make a few clear definitions regarding things like insults and hatred in posts. Beyond that it gets to be very subjective.

What if I find your anti-Kerry posts to be "crap" because they offend my political sensibilities or multipaks posts drawing lines between people he believes to be the same as "crap" or Morgorath's posts about his girlfriend to be "crap" because they offend my sense of what a relationship should be or JJs posts about online games because I feel people are wasting too much time playing video games these days? Do I get to treat them differently because I just don't like the way they post?

I believe all people deserve the right to be treated equally with their posts. As long as I can define a set of rules then I will apply those rules to everyone. I have no way of knowing for sure what the intent behind a post may be so I have to judge it entirely on the words in that post.

Sure, I know that BEs comments were offensive to a number of people but they fell within the established rules of the forum. I don't want to make more rules... I really don't like them.

gah... I'm out of time... I have so much more to say... you can start to get a sense of where I'm coming from though... expect more later... I don't forsee much sleep for me tonight.