Buxtabuddha...
Why did @Buxtebuddha get banned? I am disappointed with this decision, I don't think he deserved it. Someone recently alerted me to it and mentioned he had some great posts in the past few months. As I haven't been active, I thought I had to come and check it out.
Like this post for example - https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/186710 . It's rare to find such incisive comments which get to the heart of the matter. This place quite often is filled with people who put only a finger in the honey pot - my God, it's rare to get one who puts his whole hand in there. Most people just want to pretend to help, instead of providing real help. I think we should accommodate eccentricities, not exterminate them. Extermination of difference will only lead to the degradation of this community.
I mean who cares that he told @Maw to go suck his own Johnny Walker? Even the White House Communications Director used to say the same thing... And maybe it was actually good advice...
Anyway, just thought I'd let everyone know my thoughts. I don't think acting in this manner will be productive for our community in the long run, that's all. Thanks. *vanishes*
Comments (44)
And he got kicked out too. We're just following Trump's lead. He is the President after all and deserves our loyalty.
What about the title?
Quoting the word "sarcasm" makes it seem that you're being sarcastic in calling it sarcasm. Now I don't know what to think.
So, what's the norm here if we're talking about eccentricities?
There is no norm, they are eccentricities.
Eccentricities exist on a spectrum of deviating from some norm, no? So, what's the norm?
By eccentricities I referred to actions which are peculiar to an individual (such as some swearing is to Buxta), but which are otherwise irrelevant - they don't cause any harm.
Depends on the context. But, I had nothing against Buxte, just that he became increasingly hostile and grudging against a particular moderator, upon being notified that he was put on 'probation', which is a horrible thing to tell someone on an online forum, and hope we can do away with it, if at all possible.
Come on, did you or the moderators really expect Buxta to stop? Then he wouldn't be Buxta anymore. So I don't buy this. Whoever gave the warning did not expect him to stop, and gave the warning on purpose, knowing the end. People here are not dumb.
So, we ought to be more tolerant to people who become increasingly intolerant to others opinions? That's not a stable equilibrium by any means.
I don't think he was intolerant, I think it was just his style.
Telling someone to suck your whatnot kinda makes the point clear, in my opinion.
Maw doesn't swear? Are you kidding me!
That's what happens when you're not around for awhile :rofl: Maybe I was spared because I stopped posting roundabout when Maw made his return.
Well I'm second-guessing myself now, but I'm almost positive I've seen him drop expletives here and there. I do it too occasionally. One possible difference, perhaps, is that I don't think he (Maw) directs them at others as insults.
Anyhow I'm bummed Buxte is gone as I felt he made some valuable contributions to this forum.
That's a good point though about making possible concessions to the idiosyncrasies of certain longstanding posters. Or even newer but high quality ones like my old friend, Thanatos Sand. But I also get the need to be consistent with the rules and not apply them selectively.
Yeah, I just meant that I wasn't around, so I wouldn't know. I added to my post:
Quoting Agustino
Hmm, you guys must do an excellent job on covering that issue because that would be inconsistent with my mental picture of Buxte as he had a low view of Palestinians from a topic in the shoutbox that I followed and in my view started this whole issue. If true then it was a typical case of stopping a troll from getting his fix.
In other words, I agree with the decision given the above.
And there was discussion in the mod forum where the mod who banned Buxtebuddha asked several times if there were any objections. And this was the second time we had such discussions over the past year or so. The last time some mods stood up for Buxte and we didn't ban him. This time no one did and we did. It was an extended process. I might add that only about one in ten of Buxte's posts was of any quality at all imho, so I don't feel we've lost in that respect. Although, we have lost some diversity, I guess.
EDIT: I see now that he announced it in the Shoutbox anyway.
Lol, why didn't he just leave the site on his own? Darn, I liked him too.
He was an addict, apparently. :) Yes, good guy, genuine. His last discussion was a bit of an unfortunate idea though. None of us are paragons of reason to the extent he might have hoped.
(Cross posted).
Must have been haha.
:lol:
No offense intended, guys, but while I do have some addictions TPF is not one of them. And I love the place. I like to think I can come and go as I please. Denial?
:up: :razz:
You are. :yikes:
What we see here is confirmation bias. Buxte was low quality racist troll, but he was a pro-life low quality racist troll.
That's all Augustino ever needed to give his endorsement.
Ugliest turd in the bowl? :vomit: No, that's right, that honor went to Buxte! Joking, of course... :wink:, should not speak ill of the 'dead', right?
Do you mean "in lieu of getting paid, the moderators receive the occasional exquisite pleasure of executing an errant philosopher? Like, in the good old days they'd have burnt Buxtebuddha at the stake in the market square after Mass? This being the new times, the youth-perverting philosodeviants are merely expelled from our august company and sent out to beg from the philistines?
Is that what you mean?
Now, I'm not sure what I meant. :smile: