No action has been taken yet, Bruce.
DrVolin wrote:But eyeno does uncloak in the post you point to, and further down in the thread as well. He has carefully built up a naive persona. Even his avatar is classic naive art. But sometimes he can't keep the sophisticated writer with an agenda out of his posts. He's disciplined enough not to do anything obviously bannable. But as you see from the responses in the thread (and from the trajectory of previous such threads), Riginters generally don't fall for his line. This is self-regulating, and your interventions ensure that it is.
What bothers me about letting this stuff ride is the way in which it moves a sort of Overton window here on the forum toward mild acceptance of "reasonable" pseudo-innocent discussion involving sources and viewpoints that conflict with the mission statement, whatever that might be, but presumably anti-fascism. But you're right, the crowd mostly here isn't falling for it.
My opinion is that we should probably suspend or ban next time eyeno presents a problem.
But YOU GUYS ARE ALL SMARTER THAN ME CANT WE LEARN TOGETHER AND I DONT EVEN
The most dangerous traps are the ones you set for yourself. - Phillip Marlowe
