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drkarrow wrote:
MichaelWDean wrote:
Is there an actual way to ignore users on this board so their messages do not show?
Dunno. Would be nice. If it's not in the forum software's options, then it's not.
But I wish the moderators on here would ban weenies. It's NOT un-libertarian or "playing cop."
Your property, your rules.
If someone adds nothing but grief to a site, they increase the noise-to-signal ratio, and
decrease the value of the site. Both socially and
monetarily. Weenies chase off good people, which
lowers the price of ad rates, or the number of click-throughs. It's the site owners'
money going down the drain, not mine.
(I may seem overly bold making strong suggestions after only a little time on a site, but I'm a good person to have around. I make frequent, intelligent contributions to any fourm I'm on. I buy products from ads on sites I frequent. I'm polite. I recommend the sites to other intelligent, polite people. And I even spell check.)
But really?
The only place you can truly block someone is in your own head. And I can block someone named Il Duce easily.
Il Duce was the nickname of the Fascist dictator
Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was not only a murderous tyrant but also a first-rate
gun grabber:
"The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements of disorder and subversion. On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results."
--
Benito Mussolini, addressing the Italian Senate in 1931.
(From:
http://davekopel.org/2A/Mags/Italy.htm )
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It would be slightly cooler to call yourself "Barack Obama" or "Diane Feinstein" or "Sarah Brady" on a gun-rights site. I'll have no problem ignoring OCDO user
Il Duce. Anyone who would use that name is worthy of being ignored. (Even if he got it from a movie or one of his first-person-shooter video games instead.)
After Il Duce was executed, he was "hung upside down on meathooks from the roof of a gas station, then stoned by civilians from below.... The corpse of the deposed leader became subject to ridicule and abuse."
(from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini#Mussolini.27s_body )
This is someone to name yourself after? Well, feel free.
If OCDO user
Il Duce picked his name, on the other hand, in honor of El (sic) Duce,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Duce
the now-dead (stepped in front of a train while drunk) singer/drummer in The Mentors (who thought it was cool to name himself after the Italian Dictator, but was too stupid to spell the name right), I met that guy when my band Bomb
http://www.hitsofacid.com
opened for The Mentors at
TT The Bears in Boston, MA in 1988.
That El Duce wasn't a very impressive human, he was quite a sad drunk who crapped in his pants in the dressing room before their set that night. He was too weak to play drums well and too wasted to remember the words to his own songs....Not really worthy of naming oneself after.
MWD