Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
On 28 Aug 2007 at 14:57:16 -0700, "George
Herbert"
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Either the system works... we are mostly
honorable people, and have
enough honest and principled people that if something seriously
sinister started someone would stand up and publically announce it and
call for it to end.
...and get labeled a "troll", his messages summarily deleted as
trolling, and eventually he gets banned, then any subsequent person
who expresses similar ideas gets labeled a "sockpuppet" and banned
too, even more summarily. And the clique pats themselves on the back
for defeating another bad guy.
I don't think that's a fair description of what goes on at all.