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In reply to the discussion: The latest "banning" (NYC_SKP) is an interesting lesson on REPUTATION. [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)(and I have said nothing so far) is that the threads and posts on this subject have now reached numbers that probably exceed the discussions of 9/11 at the time it occurred. You'd think that Los Angeles had just been bombed.
So let's step back. My observations have been that equal numbers of defenders and detractors have posted on these threads. So for what you perceive as "grave dancing" by the latter are matched by the number of "cult of personality" posts (if we're going to assign negative phrasing to posts on an equal basis) by the former.
This isn't the end of the earth. It's just an Internet squabble. I'm sure SKP will probably be reinstated after an appropriate "rest" period. I doubt that the admins' actions were taken on the basis of the post in question alone, but rather after a certain number of incidents.
I don't often look at names of posters when I read a post. I look at content. So I don't even have a picture of SKP or his "reputation" one way or another.
I just think: another day at DU.