Allegedly, on or about 06 November 2013, Joe Zeff sent:
I'm beginning to think that the problem was started by complaints
from
one or more offense thieves. (That's a person who takes offense when
none was offered.) This was followed up by heavy-handed moderation by
one or more moderators who not only didn't have the time to do the job
correctly, but were too eager to reject posts that didn't meet their
unreasonable standards. And, I can remember posts from other members
on this list that used far more offensive language against him than he
ever used, and almost nobody objected.
Do you really think they'd bother to moderate someone who hadn't done
something to deserve it?
Do you really think that they'd go through the continual effort to keep
on moderating them, rather than relax it after a while, if the person
didn't keep on doing whatever it was?
He got a blunt response, from a moderator, on this list in public, after
his recent, "goodbye cruel world," message. That he'd been told what he
had to do, and refused to.
The ball was *always* in his court. And other people shouldn't have to
go out of their way, at all, not in any small amount, to have to avoid
abuse. He chose to do what he did, and chose to keep on doing it.
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George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.