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Well, all aristarchus submissions on all and sundry are being rejected according to plan. That is to be expected. What is not is the immediate rejection of aristarchus submissions to keep them out of the view of web crawlers, lest it appear that SN was a hive of liberality and objective news! And, then, of course, when we least suspected it, the dumbest Soylentil figured out aristarchus' fiendish plan! Oh! Busted! My Bad! Mea Culpa! So now we are flooded in the IRC with submissions from some "nutherguy". Dude, if you are going to do this, at least do it under your own username!
But things have gotten testy, even on the Editor front. Now there is nothing like TMB calling me stupid, which really is no insult at all since I know he knows not of which he posts, but more the banning of editors by other editors, and where I least expected to see it. Marty B has always be the exemplar of fairness, a Rock of SoylentNews. God knows I had my differences with janrinock when he was EIC, but then, he is not all that bright. Now, however, I come across this, over the continued queue stuffing by Runaway, and his threat to shoot our esteemed Editor in Chief:
[01:23:59] tell that to the guy who said he'd shoot you. even in jest that shit's not exactly civil
[01:24:10] I wartnedf you
[01:24:14] .kick AzumaHazuki
[01:24:14] -!- AzumaHazuki was kicked from #soylent by Aphrodite!Aphrodite@dodekatheon.olympus.gr [(Bytram (martyb)) No reason given]
[01:24:31] ++ Bytram
[01:24:41] nutherguy: watch it.
[01:25:03] *sigh* I got it backwards, don't I?
So, Bytram "wartnedf" Azuma Hazuki, and then kicked another ed from the #soylent channel on IRC. Maybe Marty is having a bad day, or perhaps the influence of a certain Boomer Trump supporting Soylentil has become toxic to the point of causing dissension within the ranks of our dear volunteer editors?
Now, I am just a regular soylentil, besides being 2400 years old, and I have seen this many times before. I suggest that the cause of the friction the removed. It really is time we ban Runaway1956. I say this with great trepidation and regret, as it is an extreme action to take, but the survival of SoylentNews as a viable place for discussion is at stake. "Nutherguy" poses an existential threat to SoylentNews.
Discuss.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 26 2020, @01:15AM (4 children)
Since you can't help yourself on the taking things out of context front...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday September 26 2020, @07:47AM
See, I told ya! Nutherguy should have been kicked as well. Kicking people off Olympus, since the time it happened to Haephestus, has always been unjust, the God of Justice, Zeus, acting in a fit of rage and domestic abuse, which makes this episode all the more poignant. At least Haephaestus landed amoungst the Ethiopians, and learned some neat blacksmithing tricks.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday September 26 2020, @08:20AM (2 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday September 26 2020, @09:01AM (1 child)
Just that, I've never seen bytram is a bad mood before. Kinda shocked me. And, I thought Runaway should have been kicked, since he started it.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday September 27 2020, @03:46PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves