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In reply to the discussion: The latest "banning" (NYC_SKP) is an interesting lesson on REPUTATION. [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)That when one of our members is suffering, even if it is a more trivial thing like being banned, the rest of us react. Some to celebrate, some to mourn.
For me, over the years, DU has been many different things. It provided me with valentine hearts at a point in time when life really did not seem to be worth it. It gave me something to do when an un-named and apparently un-diagnosis-able illness kept me so plastered with pain killers that DU was for a while my one and only outlet. (Within a week of getting a real diagnosis, the pain killers went in the trash.)
Friends have come and gone - some very fine people lost to the real tombstone, others to the less final DU tombstone. But those DU dispossessed are now on other websites (thank goodness for Wordpress, so we hang out at forums created by necessity when DU was not willing to be tolerant.)
I hope that NYC Skip is allowed back. I am glad to see people protest his loss. Like others are saying, this recent ban brings to light some of the idiosyncrasies about DU's style of management. What is the difference that someone can say something ONCE and be banned, overnight, while others continually harass and pester and pester and harass?
So I guess the policy is that you cannot be allowed one outright slur, but if the slur is implied, you can slur again and again and again!