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« on: November 26, 2014, 05:49:14 PM »

...and why was he banned?

Also what's so good about him?
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« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2014, 05:53:00 PM »

lol.

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« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2014, 06:19:01 PM »

...and why was he banned?

Also what's so good about him?

Serious people don't like him.

He is a great poster.  The best.
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« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2014, 06:33:19 PM »

It appears the time has come in regards to the Opebo questions.

Oh no. Here we go. Sad
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« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2014, 06:36:13 PM »

Its pretty easy to find out for yourself if you use the search function.
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« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2014, 09:01:42 PM »

Piss off, sock.
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« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2014, 09:16:16 PM »

Nobody important.
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« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2014, 09:23:45 PM »

Welcome back, Dixie.
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« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2014, 09:35:41 PM »

BRTD's obsession with him makes me assume he must be awful.
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« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2014, 09:40:56 PM »

The best poster to grace these boards.
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« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2014, 10:02:38 PM »

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« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2014, 11:18:39 PM »

At approximately 11:05 PM today, Brodie Hellenes and Dixie Reborn were stopped by a Forum Moderation Officer due to suspected involvement with sock accounting. Hellenes attempted to attack the officer. Fearing for his life, the officer acted in self defense by firing two fifty point infractions at the suspects. Mr. Hellenes was pronounced dead at the scene while Mr. Reborn is in critical condition at Jew Leip Methodist Memorial Hospital - but is not expected to recover. The officer involved has been put on paid leave pending internal investigation.
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« Reply #12 on: November 26, 2014, 11:54:18 PM »

At approximately 11:05 PM today, Brodie Hellenes and Dixie Reborn were stopped by a Forum Moderation Officer due to suspected involvement with sock accounting. Hellenes attempted to attack the officer. Fearing for his life, the officer acted in self defense by firing two fifty point infractions at the suspects. Mr. Hellenes was pronounced dead at the scene while Mr. Reborn is in critical condition at Jew Leip Methodist Memorial Hospital - but is not expected to recover. The officer involved has been put on paid leave pending internal investigation.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.  Following the public outcry over this incident, the David Leip Moderation Department has elected to release the name of the officer involved in these events.

The officer's name is Bacon King, and he has been with the Moderation Department for four years.  To date, he has but one disciplinary action listed on his service record, involving a prior case of false accusations of socking.

However, our thorough report of the present incident indicates that Officer King acted appropriately, and correctly identified Mr. Hellenes as a sock account of Mr. Reborn.  From this, one can only conclude that when Officer King opened fire on the individual he identified as Mr. Hellenes, he was in fact merely mortally injuring Mr. Reborn's typing hand.  Emergency surgery conducted by Dr. Modadmin Nym90 is expected to leave Mr. Reborn in such a state that he will never again be able to grace this forum.

Officer King is suffering symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, and will be counseled by Moderation therapist Dr. Torie, as he attempts to continue with his life following this traumatic event.  He is set to be interviewed by George Stephanopolous to provide his side of the story within the next 48 hours.

This has been a trying time for all, and I understand that many of you are appalled by Moderation policy that force against socks is always justified.  However, don't you think there's a reason for that?


(too soon?)
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« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2014, 01:02:40 AM »

A good man taken from us too soon.
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« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2014, 01:17:41 AM »

BURN THIS PLACE DOWN!!!!
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« Reply #15 on: November 27, 2014, 01:23:41 AM »

No I am curious too
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« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2014, 09:09:30 AM »
« Edited: November 27, 2014, 09:11:05 AM by HockeyDude »


The poor should have equal access to the Internet regardless of how they use it.

This is absolutely ridiculous.  The public shouldn't have to pay for a poor person to further a destructive habit in the presence of children in a public forum.  Poor people face many problems.....lack of access to porn is not one of them.

Spoken like both a prude and a privileged - the poor definitely do have a problem about lack of access to pornography.

: (  RIP.   (Did anyone ever notice that he said "the poor" and not "poors" in one of his classics?)
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« Reply #17 on: November 27, 2014, 09:56:34 AM »

At approximately 11:05 PM today, Brodie Hellenes and Dixie Reborn were stopped by a Forum Moderation Officer due to suspected involvement with sock accounting. Hellenes attempted to attack the officer. Fearing for his life, the officer acted in self defense by firing two fifty point infractions at the suspects. Mr. Hellenes was pronounced dead at the scene while Mr. Reborn is in critical condition at Jew Leip Methodist Memorial Hospital - but is not expected to recover. The officer involved has been put on paid leave pending internal investigation.

Bacon King is like The Onion: he's always spot on in his humour.

just wanna say...called it
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« Reply #18 on: November 27, 2014, 10:51:58 AM »


He was a poster who joined this forum about the same time I did, and was pretty close to my age, so I always could relate to him.  He sported a Blue Missouri shield and I a Blue California.  Politically, he was a bit of a fascist and a plutocrat, far to my right--I was a newly-minted Republican at the time, and a fairly centrist one--but he was a sort of liberal Republican with regard to issues not immediately affecting his pocketbook, as was I.  (I have since reverted back to being unaffiliated, which was my normal state for most of my adult life.)  He supported Republicans from as long as he could remember and spoke openly about duping the great, unwashed masses in order to get them to vote against their own interests and in favor of his.  He was comfortable exploiting religion and culture in order to achieve his ends.  He had a generous remittance, some sort of allowance, from his parents and never really worked.  In fact, he clearly regarded himself apart from the "toiling class."  Once, when I was in my office posting here I mentioned Thai hookers--I can't remember what we were discussing, but it came up--and immediately he became very interested.  He started saying that he was in Thailand at that moment, in fact, and often spent time among Thai hookers.  My comment somehow opened a floodgate.  He instantly became the authoritative source for all things Thai, which was especially useful during the recent Thai protests.  (He supported the old regime, of course.) 

During the summer of 2004 I disappeared from the Forum for about four weeks.  I was in Hawaii.  When I returned I noticed that he had a red Missouri shield.  WTF?  I thought I knew him well.  WE had both been posting here for six months by then.  I asked him about the red shield and he explained his "epiphany" to me.  (Over the years I began to figure out that his "epiphany" consisted of his parents threatening to cut him off from the money because they did not approve of his lifestyle, which they regarded as nefarious.  He had been schooled in the classical liberal arts tradition, at no small expense, and had not really made a way for himself in the world.  He was a consumer of their largesse and contributed nothing to their society except embarrassment.  In short, he was forced to get a job.)

For what it's worth, I do think that his philosophical conversion was real, even if brought on by economic circumstance.  Of course, he still maintained his decidedly Victorian attitudes regarding race, gender, and class, but he became more sympathetic to the "toiling" classes once he became one of their member.  His rather libertarian regard toward issues not directly related to his pocketbook did not seem to change under his epiphany. 

He was a very entertaining poster.  I regarded him as one of the most interesting posters here and most of us enjoyed his posts.  One poster in particular evolved a sort of religious devotion to opebo, and still exhibits signs of hero worship toward him.  I'm not sure how healthy that is, but I have no psychological training so I won't expound on that.


I do not know, really.  I was also on vacation when all that happened.  I was absent from the forum for nine days during January of this year.  I was on a scuba-diving trip to Saint Lucia.  From what I can tell, he was banned during the very first day of my absence, and that there was great calamity among the regular posters here, but it had died down by the time I returned.  In fact, it was only gradually that I figured out that he had been banned.  (The prevalence of Red Missouri shields was mysterious at first, but I surmised that it had something to do with opebo.)  I was astonished to learn that opebo had been banned!  First, I don't support any banning.  Secondly, why him?  He was a knowledgeable poster, if disagreeable at times.  He had been posting here for ten years.  More importantly, he was a Democrat, and a supporter of the Democratic candidates.  If he were a Republican it would not have been quite as surprising--more than a few good posters have been banned because their political ideologies are too sympathetic to the GOP--but for a old guard poster and a Democrat to be bounced is quite surprising.  One day, in May of this year, Grumpy Gramps explained to me, over dinner in a small restaurant near where I live, that it appears to him opebo had been banned for supporting underage prostitution.  He likes young girls, and ocassionally young boys, but I don't really think that's reason enough to ban him.  What I really think is that he pissed off one too many moderators.  He had a long-standing feud with Gustaf, for example, and Inks and a few others bore his wrath from time to time as well.  Even level-headed moderators like Al (formerly Realpolitik), had reason to dislike him.


He was human, of course, and therefore sentient.  In all humanity there is goodness, and this is no less true of opebo.  Hamlet put it best to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern:

What a piece of worke is a man! how Noble in
Reason? how infinite in faculty? in forme and moving
how expresse and admirable? in Action, how like an Angel?
in apprehension, how like a God?



How like a God was opebo.
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« Reply #19 on: November 27, 2014, 11:33:35 AM »

If he were a Republican it would not have been quite as surprising--more than a few good posters have been banned because their political ideologies are too sympathetic to the GOP

Has this actually ever happened?
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« Reply #20 on: November 27, 2014, 11:36:05 AM »

If he were a Republican it would not have been quite as surprising--more than a few good posters have been banned because their political ideologies are too sympathetic to the GOP

Has this actually ever happened?

Maybe sympathetic to the very, very far GOP right ala StatesRights.
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« Reply #21 on: November 27, 2014, 11:45:14 AM »

If he were a Republican it would not have been quite as surprising--more than a few good posters have been banned because their political ideologies are too sympathetic to the GOP

Has this actually ever happened?

Maybe sympathetic to the very, very far GOP right ala StatesRights.

I thought StatesRights left on his own, no?
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« Reply #22 on: November 27, 2014, 11:50:57 AM »
« Edited: November 27, 2014, 12:02:16 PM by angus »

If he were a Republican it would not have been quite as surprising--more than a few good posters have been banned because their political ideologies are too sympathetic to the GOP

Has this actually ever happened?

Maybe sympathetic to the very, very far GOP right ala StatesRights.

It happens regularly.  The only time it ever really bothered me was with jmfcst.  Like opebo, he was a long-term poster, and he could be equally annoying.  Unlike opebo, jmfcst was well educated in technology and had no trouble getting around static and dynamic IP blocking.  In the first few months after he was banned, jmfcst created many alter-ego accounts, ghostposting under several different aliases just to show that he could.  He writes code for a living, in fact, so it isn't surprising that he had no trouble getting around the ban.  He eventually got tired of ghostposting and stopped creating alias accounts.  He and I exchanged emails for a while after he was banned and I let him know when opebo was banned.  He was heartily surprised by that as well!  (opebo and jmfcst seemed to have some deep personal understanding to which I was not privy.  For example, there were a few jokes that opebo made and only jmfcst understood, and vice-versa.  If this forum is Life, and their banning represents Death, then they are soulmates now.)  

Generally, if your convictions cause you to be against same-sex marriage, for example, you will be suspect.  This has been the case since the "banning" mentality started around 2007.

Also, if I recall correctly, Statesrights was not banned.  At least I do not remember him being banned.  He was bizarre, at times, and intentionally provocative--for a very long time he kept in his signature a painting of a US president being assassinated--but I did not think he was banned.  Someone can correct me if I am wrong.  

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« Reply #23 on: November 27, 2014, 11:51:57 AM »

If he were a Republican it would not have been quite as surprising--more than a few good posters have been banned because their political ideologies are too sympathetic to the GOP

Has this actually ever happened?

Maybe sympathetic to the very, very far GOP right ala StatesRights.

I thought StatesRights left on his own, no?

Yes, StatesRights was never banned.

The only poster I can think of for whom this could be said to be even remotely true is Derek/barfbag, who was partially banned for his very stupid views, but to say he was banned for being too Republican sympathetic is hilariously wrong. Furthermore he was definitely not a "good poster".
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« Reply #24 on: November 27, 2014, 11:59:49 AM »


But are there any examples? Other than jmfcst, who pretty clearly wasn't banned for being a conservative...
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