I've Been Banned At timblair.net!
Quite an accomplishment, if I do say so myself. I've jumped into the pit at LGF and even once at vodkapundit and did they ban me? Nope. But post a few comments at timblair.net questioning some peoples conservative views and BAM! I'm an "unoriginal, boring troll". I posted a few comments in response to a post of Mr. Blairs concerning Cindy Sheehan's visit to Oz. My comments start at #82.
Here's the email I sent to the admin of the blog, replete with embarrassing spelling and syntax errors, and her response:
If it's not too much trouble, could you let me know why I've been banned from even cisiting timblair.net ? I'm sure you're very busy, and exactly disposed to to doing favours for someone whose views don't quite mesh with yours, so I won't get worked up if you don't respond. It just seems a little, well, odd, seeing as how Mr. Blair, in the post that I commented on, actually included a comment on how Bob Debus seemd to be stifling dissent.Anyway, thanks in advance if you have the time to reply, and all the best in the future if you can't.kodos423
The response:
Because you're nothing but a troll -- an unoriginal, boring troll. If you have such a burning need to get your opinions on the internet, get your own blog. Your dissent hasn't been crushed. You haven't been prevented from saying whatever you want to whoever you want. You haven't been put in jail or threatened with bodily harm. You merely have been prevented from bothering people on a forum you don't own using bandwidth to which you contribute not one cent. By the way, you haven't been banned from "cisiting" (sic) Tim Blair's site. You can read it any time you like. You just can't comment. I realize that to compulsives the inability to make their important thoughts immediately known to people is akin to being stricken with blindness, but that's not my problem.
So, what was it that I wrote there that caused such righteous indignation? Here's my very first comment:
82.Meh, Cindy S. is such an easy target for the right, in the same way that people like A. Coulter are for the left. She makes it that much harder to talk about the war.By the way, how’s everything going with that? Oil pumping like crazy? Potable water and electricity for all? The civil war/insurgency/unrest winding down? Gosh, with successes like those, it’s a wonder attention-hungry nutcases like Sheehan have any audience at all...oh, wait, I guess failing to ignore the staggering failures in Iraq, or failing to blame them on everyone but the people responsible makes me a nutcase.Posted by kodos423 on 2006 05 23 at 08:51 AM • permalink
Yeah, okay, so I'm clearly not there to preach to the choir, but I've seen much worse, as far as comments on a blog go. Plus, I didn't even curse! A few intrepid souls responded, a couple of them raising some good points, but one response in particular caught my eye:
92.#90 You wouldn’t know anything about it. You’d never put your hide in harms way. You haven’t a clue about what you are whining about. Have you been to Iraq (and no, seeing it on the news doesn’t count)? Have you been in and around or otherwise within 1000 miles of Baghdad? What qualifies you to make these judgments of yours? Your typical leftoid “dissenting view” is nothing but argument baiting. You are a liar and a fraud to claim innocence here. Piss of troll.Posted by Texas Bob on 2006 05 23 at 09:24 AM • permalink
A fairly common ruse employed by the right to shut down discussion of the war - if you haven't been there, you have no right to comment on it. Great. So, I'm assuming that people commenting at Mr. Blair's blog will be saying basically the same thing to him whenever he posts about Ned Lamont, right? I mean, it's not as if Mr. Blair can vote in Connecticut, so according to Texas Bob's logic, he is unqualified to comment on that particular election. I won't be holding my breath on that one, though.
I should also add that if it turns out that for whatever reason, Mr. Blair can vote in Connecticut, I will update this to reflect my error and admit to being either a fuckwit or a dropkick, Mr. Blair's choice.
Another amusing aspect to this is that in the post I was banned for commenting on, Mr. Blair quoted Bob Debus, the New South Wales Attorney General as saying:
"Those people who seek to criticise parents of a child who has died, let alone one who has died in a war, should just walk a mile or two in their shoes,” Mr Debus said.
Mr. Blair's response?
Looks like Bob is attempting to shut down dissent.
But hey, according to the admin that banned me from commenting at Mr. Blair's blog, my dissent hasn't been crushed. Which is certainly true. But that admin sure attempted to crush my dissent. The administrator of timblair.net has undeniably inhibited my ability to express a dissenting view, albeit only at timblair.net. I know, it's hardly the end of the world, but it's just funny that I would get banned for my comments on a post by a conservative who singled out a non-ocnservative and accused him of attempting to shut down dissent. It's really not the bannage that's worth noting, so much as the naked hypocrisy. Or the stupidity. It's totally possible that the admin isn't smart enough to understand how silly it looks to ban someone after they responded to a post that included that statement. But maybe I'm the stupid one, perhaps I missed the part where Bob Debus threatened to prevent people from saying whatever they want to whoever they want. Maybe I missed the part where Debus advocated putting dissenters in jail or threatening them with bodily harm. Anything's possible, I guess...
Anyway, now that any hope of actual debate or dialogue has evaorated, I can finally dismiss them in a manner truly befitting them:
Fuck them. Fucking dumb-ass ignorant hypocrites. All the yelling and pouting in the world won't make your lies about this war magically become the truth. And all the indignation your pointy little heads can muster won't make you any less hypocritical than you obviously are.
NB: I hope the links work, because despite what the admin wrote in the email, when I try to visit the blog, the only thing I can see is a message that the system is offline for maintenance. If they don't work, I'll try to add them from a different log-in.
Here's the email I sent to the admin of the blog, replete with embarrassing spelling and syntax errors, and her response:
If it's not too much trouble, could you let me know why I've been banned from even cisiting timblair.net ? I'm sure you're very busy, and exactly disposed to to doing favours for someone whose views don't quite mesh with yours, so I won't get worked up if you don't respond. It just seems a little, well, odd, seeing as how Mr. Blair, in the post that I commented on, actually included a comment on how Bob Debus seemd to be stifling dissent.Anyway, thanks in advance if you have the time to reply, and all the best in the future if you can't.kodos423
The response:
Because you're nothing but a troll -- an unoriginal, boring troll. If you have such a burning need to get your opinions on the internet, get your own blog. Your dissent hasn't been crushed. You haven't been prevented from saying whatever you want to whoever you want. You haven't been put in jail or threatened with bodily harm. You merely have been prevented from bothering people on a forum you don't own using bandwidth to which you contribute not one cent. By the way, you haven't been banned from "cisiting" (sic) Tim Blair's site. You can read it any time you like. You just can't comment. I realize that to compulsives the inability to make their important thoughts immediately known to people is akin to being stricken with blindness, but that's not my problem.
So, what was it that I wrote there that caused such righteous indignation? Here's my very first comment:
82.Meh, Cindy S. is such an easy target for the right, in the same way that people like A. Coulter are for the left. She makes it that much harder to talk about the war.By the way, how’s everything going with that? Oil pumping like crazy? Potable water and electricity for all? The civil war/insurgency/unrest winding down? Gosh, with successes like those, it’s a wonder attention-hungry nutcases like Sheehan have any audience at all...oh, wait, I guess failing to ignore the staggering failures in Iraq, or failing to blame them on everyone but the people responsible makes me a nutcase.Posted by kodos423 on 2006 05 23 at 08:51 AM • permalink
Yeah, okay, so I'm clearly not there to preach to the choir, but I've seen much worse, as far as comments on a blog go. Plus, I didn't even curse! A few intrepid souls responded, a couple of them raising some good points, but one response in particular caught my eye:
92.#90 You wouldn’t know anything about it. You’d never put your hide in harms way. You haven’t a clue about what you are whining about. Have you been to Iraq (and no, seeing it on the news doesn’t count)? Have you been in and around or otherwise within 1000 miles of Baghdad? What qualifies you to make these judgments of yours? Your typical leftoid “dissenting view” is nothing but argument baiting. You are a liar and a fraud to claim innocence here. Piss of troll.Posted by Texas Bob on 2006 05 23 at 09:24 AM • permalink
A fairly common ruse employed by the right to shut down discussion of the war - if you haven't been there, you have no right to comment on it. Great. So, I'm assuming that people commenting at Mr. Blair's blog will be saying basically the same thing to him whenever he posts about Ned Lamont, right? I mean, it's not as if Mr. Blair can vote in Connecticut, so according to Texas Bob's logic, he is unqualified to comment on that particular election. I won't be holding my breath on that one, though.
I should also add that if it turns out that for whatever reason, Mr. Blair can vote in Connecticut, I will update this to reflect my error and admit to being either a fuckwit or a dropkick, Mr. Blair's choice.
Another amusing aspect to this is that in the post I was banned for commenting on, Mr. Blair quoted Bob Debus, the New South Wales Attorney General as saying:
"Those people who seek to criticise parents of a child who has died, let alone one who has died in a war, should just walk a mile or two in their shoes,” Mr Debus said.
Mr. Blair's response?
Looks like Bob is attempting to shut down dissent.
But hey, according to the admin that banned me from commenting at Mr. Blair's blog, my dissent hasn't been crushed. Which is certainly true. But that admin sure attempted to crush my dissent. The administrator of timblair.net has undeniably inhibited my ability to express a dissenting view, albeit only at timblair.net. I know, it's hardly the end of the world, but it's just funny that I would get banned for my comments on a post by a conservative who singled out a non-ocnservative and accused him of attempting to shut down dissent. It's really not the bannage that's worth noting, so much as the naked hypocrisy. Or the stupidity. It's totally possible that the admin isn't smart enough to understand how silly it looks to ban someone after they responded to a post that included that statement. But maybe I'm the stupid one, perhaps I missed the part where Bob Debus threatened to prevent people from saying whatever they want to whoever they want. Maybe I missed the part where Debus advocated putting dissenters in jail or threatening them with bodily harm. Anything's possible, I guess...
Anyway, now that any hope of actual debate or dialogue has evaorated, I can finally dismiss them in a manner truly befitting them:
Fuck them. Fucking dumb-ass ignorant hypocrites. All the yelling and pouting in the world won't make your lies about this war magically become the truth. And all the indignation your pointy little heads can muster won't make you any less hypocritical than you obviously are.
NB: I hope the links work, because despite what the admin wrote in the email, when I try to visit the blog, the only thing I can see is a message that the system is offline for maintenance. If they don't work, I'll try to add them from a different log-in.
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