Wally wrote:
Soque (Enjoque) Pupette wrote:

I exercise my responsibility by staying withing the bounds of
my provider's AUP/TOS and the law; however, I refuse to be
constrained by some nutcase on a power trip.

What if you were to transgress your provider's TOS, and some nutcase on a
power trip got you booted? Would you accept responsibility for your
transgression, or would you assert that the power-tripping nutcase is the
only person to blame?

If I travel outside the bounds of my provider's TOS I *should* get
booted -- regardless who reports me or if my provider notices it
himself. But, *I* don't have to worry about it as *I* won't go there.


What if you transgressed the TOS of a series of providers, there being a
series because you were regularly booted? What if this happened for five
years, and you then deliberately transgressed your provider's TOS, knowing
that the power-tripping nutcase would again get you booted?

Someone that gets booted from a series of providers for deliberate
abuse and/or TOS violations over the course of a five year flameware
is a nutcase, too. Net-abuse and/or TOS violations are *not* justified
by being on the right side of an argument.


Do you think it's right that an online community, which essentially has no
active part in this on-going feud, should get trashed as a way of attempting
to coerce the power tripper to accept the blame?

This is a fair question. I'm glad you brought it up.

I think such a community should be self policing. Meaning: They should
take a stand against the injustices by a rogue netkkkop in their midst,
thereby quelling the need for a loud and boisterous protest of those
injustices. If they don't, they're complicit in the injustice by
allowing it to fester.

It may look like a thrashing, it may be called a thrashing, it's
actually a protest by folks that oppose rogue netkkkoping.

Frankly, I've never been fond of the "We'll turn your group into a
smoking crater" troll. But, I realize it's a troll. It's designed to
provoke an emotional reaction by kicking the natural (and powerful)
instinct of self-preservation.

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- Soque