Thanks for posting that.

So much for the denials of selective treatment; that log pretty much put an end to that nonsense.

The whining about wishing for civility over truth and fair treatment really got my attention. This from a person who can gas for hours about hard work and tenacity and ‘the desire to build a better mousetrap’ being all one ever needs to succeed.

You hypocrite.

Where does the personal responsibility enter into all this? IE: if someons posts, and I get ticked off and react in a way that might get me banned, how is it another’s fault for how I have chosen to respond? When did someone else get to be the one I blame for my choices in emotions and reactions? I can’t HELP myself? Is that not the argument of every victim?

Behavior good for the rest of ‘our’ residents? You elitist, you. Who said you get to decide for me what is good for me, that I need to be thought FOR, that the expression of a wide variety of thought, and indeed from the inane to the ridiculous, is BAD for me and therefore needs to be limited?

It’s not a republic? That from a person who is such a vocal supporter of republics, af free speech, of unlimited creativity, of inalienable rights?

I’m honestly ashamed at my own gullibility again, for believing the words spoken by those oh-so-vociferous supporters of freedoms. Seems this only applies to them.

me: “The software obviously can’t determine nor care whether the administrator is blocking an IP for legit reasons or not.”

See above. I don’t deny that you’re correct about that. I wasn’t applying the terms to anyone specific…except maybe all the automated programs that attempted to post multiple “free porn! free drugs!” links in my own blog.

As for having stated the obvious…anything that is read or written by me at 8 in the morning when I’m less than awake should be taken with a grain of salt.

Elle, is there any reason why you felt the need to write a patently obvious “FYI”? What would make you believe that I didn’t already know what you just wrote, and in fact knew it for the last years of my life, long before I came to SL?

We all know that sites take IPs. Duh. That’s just how it works. And we all know there is software and logs and all the rest. My purpose here is not trying to um “educate” myself on the facts of how these obvious things work. My purpose is to QUESTION their validity and their MISUSE. I don’t know why this subtlety doesn’t come across, every time. I know that Cristiano is busy puffing himself up now over on his blog with 12 references to him supposedly already “setting me straight” on the IP issue. But I’m here to QUESTION their use and MISUSE. This constant literalist tekkie can’t-see-forest-for-trees problem really stumps me!

You also handily talk about “spammers, griefers, and trolls” using all these jargonist terms from Internet communities and games, especially MMORPG fan forums. But I don’t accept these terms as legitimately applied. I certainly don’t believe I’m a troll or griefer because I persistently engaged in polemics — polemics is what you used to call “trolling” in a bygone era of print media and oral debates f2f, and in those olden days, you honed your skills of rhetoric to engage in polemics, you didn’t undermine the entire art of polemics itself by calling anyone who engaged in it “a troll”.

I don’t accept these givens, Elle. I believe these terms are too easily bandied about, and are vaguely defined, and are overbroad, and involve overreach in many cases. What is a griefer? Do we honestly have a really solid body of data on this to determine a community-wide, acceptable definition?

cocoanut

I think you are right, Montserret. It is so incredible to me that people can post to support Prok only using an alias.

It is also incredible to me that people have told me in world that they would post to support me, but, well, you know. Or, but, well, they don’t want to get “ripped to shreds.”

I wonder how much power all those people could have – to take back the forums, to object to the draconian new rule, and object to the hounding and hectoring of people on the forums who say things those who “run” the forums don’t want to hear.

coco

as i experience this particular kind of gaming and role play, the more i think that it is a kind of lucid dreaming. i also think that it de-sensitizes people to certain kinds of activities and behaviors.

i think it is time to question technology.

Coco, if you’re going to pretend you’re someone else, at least make an effort to camouflage your stupidity.

And if you hate bullies, you shouldn’t being licking prok’s boots. he’s the biggest bully around. Shame on him and shame on you for supporting his tyranny.

Catherine

I <3 Ray Bradbury.