>>>>>I wonder, this thread has become way too long and is currently dealing with its 20th off-topic issue. Shouldn't we start a new one about this issue?
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>>>>No. This is still not the longest thread in history of UT, and probably not the best case of thread drift. I also think that moving to a new thread works if done right away, within the first dozen messages in one direction of a drift. If done later, they both keep their separate lives, and further zigzag in unpredictable directions.
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>>>Yours and John Baird's (ignominious, I had to look that one up in the dictionary) plea miss emoticons like :) and <g>. But I see the humor nevertheless.
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>>>Having said that, isn't it WORTH a separate thread, a more focussed thread with serious replies? Or is it just me who's too serious here.
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>>No. Its not. There was no humor implied in my last response. I don't care to hear anymore about Naomi's plight on other forums. I could care less if MSDN has a policy of discrimination against sites that are not non-commercial. I could care less if Foxite bans people after many warnings. Naomi was told not to post links to the UT so what did she do? She posted that it came from the UT. She couldn't differentiate between the spirit of the law and the letter of the law and suffered the consequences. She and the rest of you need to suck it up, forget about it and move on. This horse is a bloody brown spot on the carpet.
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>John, you're really cynical, negative and wrong here. First, it's no longer about Naomi, it's about the relationship between fora and that affects us all. Second, Naomi was not banned after many warnings. She was banned after one warning and after that warning she made no serious reference to the UT. She was banned for nothing worth a ban.
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>Your reaction is a typical case of the principle that if one gets punished, there must have been at least something that this person did wrong. The idea that this is a just world afterall. If a woman got raped, she'll almost certainly have done something that induced it.
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>It is exactly this kind of reaction, this 'blaming', that Naomi feared for. And it is that fear that motivates people to try to get justice done. It is exactly your kind of reaction that makes it almost impossible for people like Naomi 'to suck it up, forget about it and move on'. You have not done her a favor.


I think that this should have been treated like we were treated in Catholic School. If one person did something wrong then everyone was punished. It this case everyone should have been banned! :)