Today we are releasing a revised version of our terms of use that explicitly lays out appropriate behavior for our site. We have also made improvements in our ability to ban and suspend users.
By making that last change we have banned our first user from the site. The user we have banned goes by the moniker “bbbbmer.” Our operations staff has had to remove more than 50 comments from this user, and has sent the user more than 40 e-mails and one official system warning. More than 10 users of varying backgrounds have e-mailed us to complain about comments this user has made. For more than any other reason, we are banning “bbbbmer” because he has single-handedly degraded the quality of conversations on our site, primarily through personal attacks and instigation.
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Check out bburg's eloquent comment on sacpress:
Democracy is not efficient. It is messy, troublesome, and sometimes maddeningly slow. It requires the ability to compromise and sometimes to graciously accept defeat. But it involves the people in their own government. Beware those who would bring "efficiency" to government by removing the people from the process of governance, and allowing leaders to turn their backs on the people they serve--except at election time, when they are expected to vote for the candidate whose supporters can afford the most advertising.
I found out thanks to Channel 40 of all places. And while I just be used to KJ being a knucklehead, it was ridiculous.
I'm surprised it's taken them this long to ban commenters. And while bbbbmer can be obnoxious, I wouldn't have guessed that he'd be the first one ejected.
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We might need to make an honorary addition to the "Sack 60" post, though, if commenter "mulvaneyp" on this thread is who you'd expect him to be.
Burg for Mayor! Write in campaign!
-omf
Cosmo Garvin did a nice recap of the tantrum:
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/snog/blogs/post?oid=1444624
unrelated... I'm sorry...
there are two tickets available to Pavement in Stockton tonight due to unfortunate circumstances. Fortunate for you, however, these tickets are Lower Balcony Row B seats 10 and 12... which happens to be right next to the Maxwell bro's!!!!!!!!! interested? get in contact with a Maxwell bro.
oh yeah... $40 a piece.
additionally, i have free tickets to michael jackson lazer spectacular. Friday at 10pm at memorial. major lazers...
nick
cpfoureight@gmail.com
I believe it's one ticket now. Must be the sweet prospect of sitting next to a Maxwell bro! So sweet that a Maxwell sister couldn't resist.
-heckamax
PS If you hate Maxwells, you can still buy the ticket and just deal with it. Somehow.
hey everybody-
southwest is having some crazy deals that end at midnight tonight. i just got a round trip ticket to san diego for a hundred bucks, total!
Speaking of KJ, this job listing turned up in my RSS feeds. Why is it not surprising that the ad is more about touting his public profile than the actual job?
I actually caught the last 45 minutes of this City Council meeting on tv on the 22nd, Johnson is a dick but they all acted like children. KJ was the most whiny childish public figure I've seen in a while, the City Council is like freshman year in high school.
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