There are steps one is not happy with. I value his technical knowlegde and think he was not trolling. As I have expressed earlier I think he intended the best - from his POV. But I feel that the way he poured it was not tolerable.

In these sense, yes, one have to stand a point and fight this behaviour.

Lutz

>The majority has spoken. Rick has been banned.
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>>Yep, and if Rick is banned we lose a person who actually has some pretty impressive technical abilities here. No offense to anyone else, but how many others here have his knowledge about C/C++ and I have found that very informative.
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>>>>>>It happens that I love baseball and discuss it here sometimes, usually with Tamar. If I were to work baseball into a million posts then that would be objectionable, too.
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>>>>>Then you would be asked to move it to sports category. You would agree and comply, of course. And we could then choose to read your sports posts or not as we like. Or, on the other-hand, we could just get irritated with your opinions about sport and ban all sports posts from the UT ... because, after all, this is a technical forum, not your personal sports, political, and music forum.
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>>>>Just make sure you don't throw out the baby with the bath water...
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>>>I agree with this principle. However, the dropping of this category was obviously done on the behest of one or more members who found it objectionable. However, the posts were (1) confined to a specific category which one can choose to read or not, and (2) the forum system allows one to filter out a members posts entirely. But it seems these two options were not sufficient and could not prevent us from reading these posts, responding to them, and taking offense with them. Apparently, we needed to totally shut the offender up, once and for all, because I am not capable of not-reading something and do not know how the twit filter works.