The journey from there to here
Published on July 6, 2005 By Gideon MacLeish In Blogging

I know admin has their own policies regarding banning members, but I thought I'd throw in my two cents here.

I'm really hoping that in some future day when JU has "pay" features, premium users can choose whether to allow/disallow banned members access to their pages. I don't know the admin's criteria for reinstatement; frankly that's a matter between them and the offending member, but I do know that there are banned users whose input I would generally prefer to have on my page (and whom I would prefer to blacklist myself if I didn't want them on my page).

Yes, I'm speaking specifically of Myrrander, but no, I won't write a "Free Myrrander!" blog, because, essentially, it does no good. It's an admin decision, but I do want my two cents on the matter weighed in (frankly, I don't know ALL the reasons for his banning in the first place, but nonetheless, would prefer to see him in a position to directly respond to my articles). Sometimes, it doesn't seem the same without certain bloggers.


Comments
on Jul 06, 2005
It would be a decent feature, I agree.
on Jul 06, 2005
Excuse my being out of the inner JU loop, but what did this Myrrander do to get banned? I also agree about being a big enough boy to be able to blacklist yourself rather than having da man acting for you. From what I see, JU is fairly free and open to everything excluding of course things like pedophelia-loving and advocating (seriously) deliberate murder against a particular individual. Anyways, what'd she/he do?
on Jul 06, 2005
little_whip

Why is deleting all articles such a bad thing? Whether or not a blogger "quits" is their choice, and deleting all their articles is also their choice. I understand the point about talking trash upon "quitting," but I don't see what is wrong with deleting...
on Jul 06, 2005
"Why is deleting all articles such a bad thing? Whether or not a blogger "quits" is their choice, and deleting all their articles is also their choice. I understand the point about talking trash upon "quitting," but I don't see what is wrong with deleting...


Most people find it annoying because later the blogger enevitably promotes themselves as being moderate and even-handed. After you've seen them utter horrific insults, maligned people's beliefs, derided the people who have died for our country, etc., it can be annoying for them to look at you incredulously and say "prove it".

I don't have a problem with people becoming more moderate or re-inventing themselves. I absolutely hate it, though, when they think erasing an article takes the taint off of them.
on Jul 06, 2005
SJT,

It's not a bad thing in and of itself, but in the context of "I want to be let back out onto the site at large", deleting all of your obnoxious, inflammatory articles gives the impression that you are "whitewashing" your blog: hiding your true style in order to appear more acceptable, at least for the duration of the decision-making process. Especially since the articles were there for who knows how long, people could read them and comment on them, and only NOW that he wants to be unbanned is he removing the evidence of his incendiary activities. I don't know if I'd call it outright dishonest, but certainly it has a sleazy feel to it.
on Jul 06, 2005

Gid, I got to ask.  Why have the conservative (and yes even the radical ones) behaved themselves on probation, and the liberal ones flaunted authority?

Perhaps as I have been told, they refuse to accept any authority other than their own.  And that is a liberal malady.

on Jul 07, 2005
Excuse my being out of the inner JU loop, but what did this Myrrander do to get banned? I also agree about being a big enough boy to be able to blacklist yourself rather than having da man acting for you. From what I see, JU is fairly free and open to everything excluding of course things like pedophelia-loving and advocating (seriously) deliberate murder against a particular individual. Anyways, what'd she/he do?


He replied to a post by saying he wished the poster to die a very slow and painful death. And BTW it's "he"