Quote from: DooMAD on July 09, 2019, 03:36:08 PM

Quote from: vokain1 on July 09, 2019, 02:39:36 PM

"Nuisance" is a totally subjective term.

Rules, however, are far less subjective. The rules say that registering new accounts after you get banned means that those accounts get banned too.

Quote from: vokain1 on July 09, 2019, 02:39:36 PM

This is a public internet forum for the exchange ideas. Did AnonyMint ever go out and doxx people, harassing them outside of words on this forum? I, for one, appreciated his voice. The loss of people like him was why I had no real interest of recovering my account. I bring up that bit because it says a lot about the nature of those running the place. Crypto sites for the discussion of crypto are supposed to be a more or less free community. The same type of people that would pocket forum donations would ban someone with inconvenient opinions/voices like AnonyMint.

As has been reiterated numerous times, it's not the opinions that got him banned, but how he chose to express them:

Quote from: theymos on May 04, 2017, 03:27:36 AM

It seems that the underlying offense which caused him to initially get into trouble (and often the thing which causes his alts to get noticed) is excessive multi-posting. But when he was warned and/or temporarily banned for this minor thing, he kept evading his bans. This forum cannot operate unless its few rules are followed, so ignoring the warnings and temporary bans that you receive and continuing to do the same stuff is unacceptable. People who do so are not welcome here.

His bans will not automatically expire, and any future alts we see from him will be permabanned. I may manually reconsider his ban if he promises to actually try not to break forum rules. The rules are not meant to silence anyone, but to keep the forum usable and fair. When someone multi-posts excessively, it monopolizes a thread in a way which harms everyone else's ability to communicate. Based on his posts in this thread, I think that he will just continue to break rules if unbanned, so I will not unban him at this time.

Quote from: gmaxwell on July 22, 2018, 01:22:55 AM

I think the people concerned about AnonyMint's "free speech" in this thread are being duped into being pawns in AnonyMint's efforts to shut down the freedom of others to communicate and associate. AnonyMint is clearly free to post whatever he wants on his own site (and any other site that can stand him). You're free to discuss his "ideas" with him there, if they interest you. But when the forum invites AnonyMint to post without restriction, other people aren't practically able to have the discussions they want to have-- he drowns them out and buries them under toxic stink. If a community can't choose topics and participants then anyone who wants can shut down a communities ability to communicate.

If this isn't obvious to you yet, consider a silly analogy: I think we can all mostly agree that people generally ought to be able to operate their own bodies as they see fit, without other people restricting how they use them. But then we have a public pool that the community likes to use and since it's a public pool we all agree everyone ought to have equal access to it. But then comes AnonyMint and for whatever reason he insists on using his autonomy over his bodily functions to deficate in the pool and refuses to cut it out. Some people can't smell it and aren't worried about pathogens and don't mind. But a lot of people do mind and won't get in the crapped up water. So his "freedom" to use the pool without restriction on his conduct ultimately denies others the free use of the pool that they ought to be able to use. If the pool operator won't keep the crapper out, then people will go off to use other shit free pools... and leave the original one for people who like shitting in the pool and the few who don't mind it.

Reasonable people can usually disagree about exactly _where_ the line should be drawn. But the principle that sometimes you've got to set and enforce limits to create a space that people can actually enjoy should be something we all agree on. In AnonyMint's case, I think almost everyone would agree his conduct has been consistently far over the line, but I think his abusive conspiracy theorizing rants strike a resonance in some people and blind them to how intolerable the guy actually is...

In short, his ban makes free and open discussion far easier to attain.

I asked earlier, isn't there a mute button? I don't want for central mgmt. to decide for me what they think is noise and what isn't.