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	Name:	Lifer -
	Subject:	Back in the day...
	Date:	8/23/2012 9:10:35 AM

... I was banned for life, not one time but many times for much less offensive cr@p than Kizma posts these days. Each ban kept me off the forum for about 5 minutes.

All I did was call an idiot an idiot and call out others on inane and sometimes racist, or in one case a totally self serving guy from trying to hijack the forum for his and his groups' own personal agenda. And in the fullness of time, most of the other regulars came to realize that I was right all along. At one point there was entire cabal of 'regulars' that rallied together to achieve the bans. Now I am the one still here, and those guys are rarely, and in some cases never, heard from here.

The point is, Bruce has given us the ignore feature, use it. His 'banning' anyone is nothing more than an annoyance to those that would choose to abuse the privilege of using the forum. The only real way to achieve a ban is to do it by IP address and Bruce for reasons explained years ago will not use that method. Even that method is only a little more of a fete to overcome to those of us with a modicum of computer literacy, as a new IP can be obtained in a matter of minutes if one knows how.

Kizma is Kizma. He and I have had our differences, but he is a nice guy in reality. I know him personally but will not disclose his identity. That is for him to do, if and when he chooses. Stirring the puddin' is a long held tradition here. Some of us are better at it than others. Some of us overlook it better than others. He enjoys creating controversy, and others enjoy reading it when he does. If you are not one of them, use the ignore feature.

I think one of my favorite quotes is in order here: "Never try to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time, and annoys the pig".