Thank you! Sensible and simple rules that should apply across the board at CZ imho - I am glad to see you post them here. No one should ever have multiple IDs posting and voting. As you say, slay the message not the messenger, and nowhere on any forum should anyone dip to mudslinging and name calling - much less going beyond that and making personal defamatory attacks.
Edit - one can only surmise where four negative votes come from that would disagree with anything in the above paragraph. Obviously the many headed hydralike "trouble" is still lurking. Remain ever vigilante good moderator!
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In case you missed it I have suggested in the WM forum that the best way to handle the problem would be to put all new members on initial moderated status long enough to make sure they were not out to create problems and to warn existing members of infractions at the same time as putting them on moderated status. Perhaps that is not feasible or advisable here.
To answer your question - Dangerous Bacon was a much more civil sort, but he had been repeatedly warned about being a mainstream troll and ultimately he was banished from all support forums as a result. I had nothing to do with that. In fact, I made an appeal on his behalf when he was on the verge of being banned prior to it actually happening. In the end, he would not listen and got what he deserved. The reason he was banned altogether is that he ultimately stooped to following Corinthian's example, after seeing him get away with it, and posted that I was responsible for killing people - not that my advice might kill people, but that it had killed people. Once again he had been warned not to cross that line and once again he did not listen. In my opinion, and that of numerous moderators, that is going too far.
Speaking of Corinthian - in my opinion, you should say hello to the fellow you just replied to. If anyone has any doubts who he is, take a look at his posting history. A virtual Corinthian clone when you look at the forums, topics and posts:
http://curezone.com/forums/s.asp?f=762&ob=d&c=0&t=150&m=%2364753
If he is indeed Corinthian (we will know soon), then he is once again in multiple violation (and btw his first post here has already been hidden) and he will once again be TOS'd out, in the process putting the big lie to what he has posted. Yet again.
IMHO.
DQ