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MARTYR!!!!!111one


You should be happy for him, he got what he wanted.  Hopefully the bigger troll will get what he wants too.

Holy crap.

Is this permanent?

This is outrageous.

A lone buggle can be heard. The Atlas cries tonight.

In loving memory. This is awful.

I really don't see why this is a bad thing.

Anyone that "mourns" him and at the same time reported him at any point in the past is a douchebag of the highest order.

edit-obviously...it should go without saying...but I'm saying it anyway

I don't think I ever reported him, and even if I did it's irrelevant because I became a changed person through the power of Christ during his first banning and quite reporting people out of spite and started lobbying for the unbanning of Einzige and Libertas.

No great loss.

Of course you'll say it's irrelevant, you were the one being a douchebag (if you did report him).  You were a douchebag when you were reporting people out of spite and political differences, just like anybody else that does that.  It's good that you've asked Christ for forgiveness and that you've changed, it still doesn't change the fact that you did it.  Just like opebo is still a douchebag for reporting people and then bitching about the reporting system (assuming he still does that).  It's bad to report people out spite/political differences, it's several orders of magnitude worse to do it and then bitch about the system you're abusing.

dead0man look, of course I've sinned. Just as you've sinned. jmfcst has sinned. All the mods have sinned.


The difference is that I will not pretend that I am any better than others like you are. I am admitting my sin and my need for redemption. But the one man who never sinned, Jesus, was tortured and suffered on the cross in unjust persecution even worse than the unjust persecution that just occurred today. And through that we can be redeemed. Like that song that they played last Sunday "On Christ this solid rock I stand! All other ground is sinking sand!"

All of those who spit on and mocked jmfcst and actively took part in his persecution will one day have to stand before God in full knowledge of this, it is good for them that God is far more merciful and forgiving than they are.

But I am better than you, at least on this topic.  I've never reported him or anybody.  I'm no narc.The fact that you are even comparing the two doesn't shine a good light on your faith, but whatever.As I said, I never spat on or mocked him (by reporting his posts).  My conscious is very clean on the subject. 

(and by the way, you're getting really close to self parody here)

He asked me to forward this:

???!

Hasn't he done this before?

Got himself banned?  Yeah, but that was only temporary.

Even though I found his views pretty disagreeable his point of view helped round things out, and will be missed.

His sig now says this:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=1287

Wow why?

For the history books, this was the last infraction that broke the camel's back:

Goodnight, sweet prince, and may a flight of angels carry thee to thy rest

I don't think he deserved to be banned, but I won't miss him in any way.

I gave up caring either way a while ago, so, meh. Amazing that he lasted as long as he did, actually.

Wow, now I'll have to carry on the Christian mantra.  That's a scary proposition!

Why isn't he D-TH?

I don't see what's infractable there, but such things have come to be expected around here...


..if this is really it, which I find very hard to believe (jmf being one of the select few members who was here when I got here and remains(ed?)), I suppose it is time for that certain Green Day song.

I don't either really, but as the camel back breaking post discloses, planning on only trimming your sails when you pass 95 death points, is sort of like that Italian boat captain who liked to take his cruise ship close in to the harbor to show off to whomever he planned to bed that night. Except here, it seems per jmfcst's fond farewell notes, that in his case, it was done rather deliberately. We have quite an array of posters on the books now who chose to leave not with a whimper, but with a bang.

I do regret that I apparently was the unintentional siren who finally seduced him into crossing over the River Styx. I wish I had not made that post. :(

It was infracted for trolling, due to being a statement of how he planned to skirt and game the system.  It was a minor infraction, but when you're already at 98...

I got multiple opinions on that one, BTW.  It wasn't a unilateral decision.

This ordeal leaves me somewhat bewildered at what things are infractable and what aren't. I guess defining "trolling" is sort of like defining "obscenity". We know it when we see it.

Well that's unfortunate.  :(

I have always rather liked him.

With any luck, will Opebo be next? 

You are spitting on him and mocking him right now. It is good you never reported him, but you are still celebrating his banning.

And there is absolutely nothing even remotely offensive about that last post of his.

:'(

RIP Legend

RIP, Freedom Fighter :'(

Oh God...

Save us, jmfcst. You're our only hope.

We have been liberated.

Sadly, he will not rise on the third day :(

Maybe he'll make a sock.

By the way, technically he's only been muted.

Jmfcst's Episode IV: A New Hope.

It'd be so obvious though.

I thought someone died. That would be very tragic.

Who is going to be the brick wall I argue with now? :P

Anyways, hardly surprising. When you try to be just enough of a troll not to get banned then inevitably you'll slip up at some point and get banned.

Not at all, I honestly don't care one iota either way if he got banned or not*.  I'm making fun of those that think this is comparable to Christ dying on the cross for your sins.



*and to be super honest, if the biggest issue Dave has is making sure the site is acceptable in middle schools and the like, banning Rev Jim isn't going to change things a bit

It is time to state the obvious: jm was in the closet (as a Santorum fan).

And even more obvious: he'll return.

You remember that scene in Spartacus don't you, where the real one stood up when the Romans asked who was Spartacus, and as he stood up, the men on either side did too, and said "I'm Spartacus" in unison with Kirk Douglas, and then his entire company stood up and did the same thing. Here of course, we have more than one company in residence. :)

He'll be back.

The real tragedy here is that we now have 0 members bathed in prayer to try and knock sense into Bushie.

Hats off, gentelmen.
The era is gone.

I liked Jay and his weird sense of humor, unique point of view and his commitment to his principles. However, on several instances years back he did cross lines and was personally offensive to and abusive of fellow member(s).  I could see why some others are not shedding a tear on his departure.  Tbs, I think this place is a weaker site in his absence. There is a continuing trend of good or at least unique posters leaving and being replaced by what I find to be inferior posters.  You also lose another voice on the right. So the echo chamber gets bigger, and the standard bearers of the conservative  point of view on this site are trolls like Winfield. Sad.

JCL would beg to differ and why would sense need to be knocked into Bushie.

Sigged.

That was actually a concern of mine.

can we have word on whether a ban has gone through or he is simply on "mute"?

I beg your pardon, who says I don't need sense knocked into me?  Some sense has already been knocked in. See the last page of my Update thread for the defining post.

He has been banned.

You don't just ban someone who has been here for a decade. Who cares if he reached a certain number of points within an extremely stupid system? The mods need to do a better job of utilizing discretion based upon the dynamics of the forum and not adhering to inane rigidity when this place clearly transcends such.

Bless this post.

He met the certain number of posts twice

We've lost a troll; nothing more, nothing less.

Oh, I was going to agree to this, but it seems jmfcst forced the issue himself. It does seem as if he was having to balance between this and his family duties [shrug].

+1

You're talking about someone who has been around for twice as long as you, and when you consider that for close to an entire year after coming here your posting history was around 80% stuff like this...

BRTD let's think about this for a moment. In the run up to the last days, I suggested to jmfcst (more than once) that he just calm down, and get over his mod thing. At that point, he was maybe at 75 death points or whatever. You would have thought he got the message. What did he do? Well he went to a Board with a gay moderator, and posted sh*t with the word "homosexual" painted in red (and he himself admitted that it was over the line, or at least accepted the score of death points he got).  That got him to 95 death points. So I ask you this. Given that factual pattern, isn't it the most reasonable surmise that jmfcst wanted to leave, and rather than just going quietly in the night, chose to make himself a drama queen?  

One has a responsibility when here, to try to work with others, and fit in, and respect the rules, and when something goes awry, handle it as an adult. None of that happened here. Sure it is sad and all, and I like jmfcst, I really do, but in the end, his behavior was really narcissistic. It should be a good lesson for all the youngs here to ponder. No matter who you are, it is never all about you, and you won't do well in life, if you don't make reasonable compromises, exercise self restraint, and carefully pick your shots, where you want to make a stand. Rather, you will be more of a crash and burn artist.

If he really wanted to get himself banned, he could have simply asked outright.  Like that one kid from Colorado or somewhere whose username escapes me right now.  He put up a thread in the Atlas saying "please ban me", and Nym did so.  Very little drama.  But no, jmfcst preferred to troll his way out for several years instead.

Svensson.

While the banning of Jmfcst is truly tragic it makes me wonder how much mourning would be shed for him if he joined in say October of 2011 instead of when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

Hmm.  That's not really relevant, BRTD.  J was a troll; his length of tenure here and my past posts do not justify you attacking me, nor do they combine to make him no longer worthy of a ban.  He was a troll, deal with it.

Among all the bans that have been enacted since I joined, Jmfcst is certainly not the most undeserved.

This is a tragedy.

to take another angle on this, does anyone else wonder exactly what he does all day now?  surely he has returned to read some evidence of the hysteria he left in his wake, but... he would spend countless hours 'trolling', arguing against various walls and rocks about the New Testament, and now... gone!

If Jay were a left-wing troll, you'd celebrate his banning right now.

Such things don't bear thinking about.  But I can tell you that in my case I play more online chess.

I was gone for several years. What are "death points"?

Annoyingly popular user nickname for infraction points, which one accumulates when one makes an infracted post.

Don't take it personally.  I do it because "death" has fewer letters in it than "infraction," and the key work is easier. Honest! Try the "ract" key sequence involving three different fingers if you don't believe me. :)

Mikado - Instead of whining about the term death points find out who Win32 is  because if he was here several years ago he's made a second account given the few posts he's made.