BluesStringer
Les Brers
Sorry I didn't see that when I replied to him, but that's something I'm just not in the habit of checking. I admit I'm somewhat surprised to see this. Although I considered Blueshell horribly misguided and even delusional, he wasn't nearly as abusive as some other members have been around here lately. There's been some seriously deep loathing and hostility of the type that would make Heinrich Himmler proud in some threads around here of late. It's not exactly a revelation to see that in internet forums, but I confess I'm a little surprised to see it tolerated here. Or at least so far anyway.
Yep, I've watched that too. You've done a much better job of avoiding real rule-breaking kinds of discourse than I could even contemplate, so that's all I've done is watched.
I'm still not convinced that Blueshell is actually banned. More than a month ago I got a PM warning (not from Luke) for using the word "idiot" in one post with a thinly-veiled threat of being banned if I were to ignore the warning. My reply to that warning was to list all the instances of Blueshell using that exact word in this thread, which numbered nearly 20 back then (probably more now), and I got a bit indignant about the warning of one use of the word considering that it seemed like selective enforcement when compared against Blueshell's ubiquitous, nearly daily use of the word. He didn't get banned for that, though I imagine he did get warned because, though I don't care to go looking for new-since-then-instances of using it, he at least slowed way down since then. When I saw the "Banned" label under his nick this morning I reviewed his recent posting history and didn't see anything vulgar or more vitriolic than he's been throughout this thread, so that's why I'm skeptical about it.
Doesn't matter though really. Whether banned or not, now that I've called into question the reality of that possible ban, he likely wouldn't come back under that same name anyway. And if he was really banned and wanted to keep pushing buttons around here, he'd also just re-register under a different name and pick up right where he left off. No one will ever convince me that that's not exactly what Treo did even though he wasn't ever banned.
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