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Permalink Reply by Christopher McGuire on May 2, 2010 at 12:23am

Mario, I feel exactly the same way. I'm taking the positive angle, though, and having some fun with it. I take it you're talking about the 'What is the Meaning of Life to an Atheist?' thread...

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Permalink Reply by Mario Rodgers on May 2, 2010 at 12:27am

No. I'm talking about the guy who keeps coming here with a different disguise every time to post his "Pull the plug on atheism/Lamb power" diatribe. Sheesh I don't even remember where the whole thing came from, but I know it's a copied response.

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Permalink Reply by Christopher McGuire on May 2, 2010 at 12:58am

Ahhhh, ok. I thought you were talking about something else...

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Permalink Reply by kvnvk on May 2, 2010 at 4:27am

I'm talking about the guy who keeps coming here with a different disguise every time to post his "Pull the plug on atheism/Lamb power" diatribe.


mmmmm... lamb.... had lamb masala for lunch at work earlier, very, very tasty. :P

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Permalink Reply by elaine kilshaw on May 2, 2010 at 6:24am

Perhaps we can make this person an atheist although it seems he just escaped from a mental hospital. I havent seen this post. Has he nothing better to do, perhaps help the poor children being abused by priests.

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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on May 2, 2010 at 1:41am

Hopefully they are archiving the posts and not deleting them outright.

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Permalink Reply by Galen on May 2, 2010 at 1:47am

Uh, maybe if they'd stop deleting it, he wouldn't feel the need to keep putting it back up. I've seen several anti-atheism posts get tweeted automatically and then I follow the link here and it's been deleted. If I were trying to spread a message and people kept deleting my message, it would only piss me off and make me try harder.

Besides which, WE shouldn't be in the practice of censoring people.

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Permalink Reply by Nelson on May 2, 2010 at 2:03am

Galen, the guy goes around to different atheist forums, blogs, and communities spamming the same bullshit over and over. he apparently threatened PZ Meyers with physical harm. there's every indication that he's not just willfully ignorant of the nature of reality but is also actually deranged in some way or another.

anyway, he was banned the first time for failing to keep to our community guidelines. the first thread he posted was peppered with insults as they all are. his aim is not to discuss the content of his posts here but merely to troll. once he was banned he then sent messages containing more insults (suspended members have the ability to send site admins a message after being suspended). since then he has registered at TA multiple times each day in order to post the same nonsense and level more insults while violating the community's guidelines and, occasionally, entertain the admins with insulting messages (suffice it to say that he seems to be quite preoccupied with our bladders and frequency of urination).

as intellectually bankrupt as his nonsense his, if he had stuck to the community's guidelines in the first place he never would have been banned. once he started harassing us we could hardly then let him stay on site as that would set a precedent that a banned person can simply harass the community until the site's moderators give in and let them stay.

there's no censorship going on and there's no reason to allow this person's forum posts remain nor any reason to allow him to be a member here.
just wanted to put you at ease and provide a little context so you understand.

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Permalink Reply by Galen on May 2, 2010 at 4:14am

Actually, I just happened to see the thread for the first time. I would like to retract my previous statement. It was completely nonsensical. I couldn't decipher any hostility (or anything else) from it, because it simply made no sense at all. Might as well have been posted by a spambot.

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on May 2, 2010 at 8:37am

The threats and hostility were delivered via private message to admin.

Here is an example of what he sent to PZ Myers.

God told me to MURDER you... pz and his entire family will burn in HELL...
police won't save that fucker from me...

you will be executed without mercy...

you have forfeit your lives...
and the police wont save you...

see, the entire university is going to be destroyed because of blaspheming PZ...
this will be sent to every member of the University...

police won't save that fucker from me...

did you know that blasphemy is punishable by DEATH and I am here to execute all of you?

Also, to point out the sheer volume of stupid, PZ said that he "gathered together all of the crazy posts he made over the course of one evening, and printed them out in very small print — it made for a small 61 page book, which would be impressive if it weren't so repetitive and vapid".

That is a lot of crap that I prefer not to have cluttering up T|A with.

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Permalink Reply by Gaytor on May 2, 2010 at 6:02am

David Mabus = 30,400 hits in Google. Dennis Markuze = 587,000 hits in Google. Considering the other names, how many times has this guy hit sites? It's all this guy does. I'm guessing he's mentally disturbed and on gov. assistance because who else would waste a life doing this? He's a "good Christian" spreading the word.

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Permalink Reply by Owen on May 2, 2010 at 7:39am

I don't know how Ning works backstage, but is there no IP ban function?

Re: Censorship, this guy isn't in it for any kind of debate or reasoned argument. By removing his threads we're not intending to censor any debate about religion - we are removing a forum member who is abusive and who spams.

As a side note, I do enjoy the chance to entertain a reasonable debate with religious believers as I find the whole subject of religious belief and practice fascinating. Unfortunately, the ones who make the effort to seek out an atheist forum are more often than not the equivalent of the atheist who seeks out a Christian forum in order to troll it, and that doesn't do anyone any good.

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