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What else are they supposed to do? There's no user union and the rules say if you get banned, then create another account, so banning them for "ban evasion alts" actually doesn't make sense. And if they get death threats / death wishes from one aggressive user who likes to verbally abuse people in arguments, then I can't fault them for wanting to come back and argue for themselves, especially when other people wouldn't want to wade into that personal shitstorm to defend them for fear of catching that verbal abuse or bans.
Also, burning that flag is for you because it's for humanity, and besides, a lot of our future actually pivots around Palestine, it's not just a regional issue.
The site has no means of permabanning a user because the IP of users is scrambled when created. Which is fine, vpns would make IP bans worthless anyway. So I agree that "ban evasion" holds very little water. (I wish there was a "by referral only" option for allowing account creation, but that's another topic). This, it would seem, is an issue z is happy to exploit.
But is it really that hard to see how deceptive it would look if you had an alt and used it to comment "T34_69 was right and should never have been banned"? That interaction I linked doesn't seem deceptive to you? The other user clearly didn't appreciate the deception. Another user just told me z DM'd them pretending to not be zposter. It's just strange behavior.
My understanding is z and nik have been beefing for a long time. It's probably worth it to read their back and forth history to get the full picture of their engagement with each other.
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Yeah I hear that, but a white boy from mayo city posting on a niche web form from his couch isn't exactly the vanguard. There are more deserved voices then mine in this space, so I yield to them. I'll use my voice offline where it has more material impact.
The only reason I'm bringing up Zs deceptive use of alts is to try and separate their long history of being agro from their alignment on this specific issue. They were not banned for their take, they have a history of being agro and have been banned in the past for a variety of things.
But they'll keep making alts, and we should just be OK with that because they "have good takes" or are "ahead of the curve" or whatever.
If we want to keep them honest, just press them on COVID
Ha, yeah. Or just ask them how they feel about nik.
These two definitely have some well seasoned beef.
Fair points, I'll look into those when I have time / attention span again. I've probably only seen like 5% of their entire posting here. For the time being though,
Yeah I do agree with that actually, it sounds reasonable unless and until I find something concrete that changes that.