so what if not me but Vellfire was admin and she decided to ban him? would you be making the exact same accusations? what if Drule banned him? what I'm trying to say is it's too easy to claim I'm just doing this out of personal reasons and dismiss what I'm saying about how this forum shouldn't give legitimacy to this sort of thing.

And like I was saying, you can cut out what the guy is saying and make him look like a fool without banning him. Dada could have changed every single one of his posts to Dr. Martin Luther King quotes and closed the topic (if he didn't drop it after being warned then ban him), it would have been pretty funny and more than effective.

i got the impression from dietcoke and a couple others that inri was being funny, clever or what he was saying was somehow not that bad, and that was what made me go aw fuck that crap.

no, but I think you're arguing I did this not because of some broader argument pertaining to what is or isn't an acceptable level of discourse generally, but because I personally don't like the discussion. that's not the case. there are tons of viewpoints I find legitimately disgusting, but only a few particularly egregious ones are worth taking action over for the reasons I outlined.

the reason why I ask you if you'd argue the same thing were it someone else is to point out that this would mean no admin could ever have made this decision lest they be branded  as being personally too involved to make a levelheaded decision out of concern for the forum. you keep falling back to this idea that I'm just abusing my power to limit and restrict everyone to a personal, arbitrary moral code because I don't like seeing certain types of discussions.

I'd love to argue more but I'll be leaving on vacation soon. then again I don't think there's much else that hasn't been said.

yeah.

it's because I personally found him annoying.

it couldn't POSSIBLY be that he's a completely awful person who calls black people ghetto rats and believes racism doesn't really exist and all that's wrong with minorities can be blamed entirely on their own inherent stupidity. that's just not conceivable. it couldn't be that konix linked to a video of a black guy being executed irl on the racist forums inri says he visits and he said the video was pretty funny. OUTSIDE OF THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY.

the one shit that really sucks about this place is that a mod or admin cant make a fucking move without it causing an uproar. you're allowed to dispute shit and make a complaint. dada heard you, you didn't manage to sway him, case closed. you can't have your cake and eat it too

nyway like i said, you filed your complaint, it didn't sway dada to change his mind, end of story. this back and forth is completely pointless. you're both just saying the same thing over and over now. like it or not, dada is an admin. this is how he wants to run the community. it's his job. if enough people complained or made a strong enough case i'm sure he (or some other staff) would've reversed the decision, but that didn't happen. nobody is forcing you to be here. you don't have to put up with this or drule's shit either. for better or worse they are who own and run the site and this is how they are DOIN THANGS. constantly harping on every minute staff decision is kind of trademark gw thing and it is fucking terrible (i'm certainly no innocent in this regard, but at least i've seen the error of my ways). just let it be. was inri really worth all this trouble?

For example, I can name currently active members who are able to get away with making sexist remarks for hours on end and NIGGAS SO BLACK HE CAN STEAL MY TV IN THE DARK-type jokes on IRC without receiving so much as a comment in the presence of some of the people who have been antagonizing Inri in this topic.