Should JerryLogan be banned?

Quote: JerryLogan

Doc, that teleprompter point was a real dagger, wasn't it.....

Sorry, Jerry, I must have missed your point. I've been out of town a few days and have been trying to catch up on the forum the past hour or so. I noticed that the Wizard had a post that seemed to relate to a request I had made a couple of weeks ago, so I tried to acknowledge it. I'm not sure what teleprompter you are referring to.

By the way, while some members of this forum have been quite offensive in their comments toward you -- in some cases, even more offensive than you have been toward them -- I think this post is the first time I have ever directed any comment to you. Have I overlooked or forgotten something I have said to you in the past? I only ask because I didn't understand your post and wondered whether you meant you were aiming a dagger at me during my absence.

In case it is not clear, my interest in the prospective "Ignore" feature is that if one person or a group of people start flaming or making outrageous comments, I would like to be able to just banish (from my screen only) that pile of garbage they post and read only the useful stuff this forum has to offer, without having to wade through filth to find it.

If I weren't the smartest poster here I'd buy that first para.

Welcome back. Get some rest.

I think the host (or hosts) are being more than generous with an ignore feature.

Even the biggest free speech conservative TV or radio advocates wouldn't continue to let a single vainglorious caller dominant their show with insults and general abuse. At least, I bet, not one. Fortunately for them, they can just disconnect people like Jerry if they keep calling.

(Yet, of course, not one of those TV or radio hosts would probably admit they believe in limiting free speech.)

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Quote: rxwine

I think the host (or hosts) are being more than generous with an ignore feature.

Even the biggest free speech conservative TV or radio advocates wouldn't continue to let a single vainglorious caller dominant their show with insults and general abuse. At least, I bet, not one. Fortunately for them, they can just disconnect people like Jerry if they keep calling.

(Yet, of course, not one of those TV or radio hosts would probably admit they believe in limiting free speech.)

I was reminded recently that this forum had some of the most intelligent, math-minded folks around, yet many of these purported geniuses for some reason continue to waste time on "forum banning" threads....when they instead could at least try and answer some of the questions I've posed about people being banned FROM CASINO GAMBLING. Please share some of that superior intellect in a productive way, and stop rxWHINING!

Quote: Nareed

No, it doesn't.

No private citizen, or group of citizens, or even large corporations, can pass a law limmiting speech and freedom of the press, nor to establish a religion or any of the other things contained in the First Ammendment.

Huh? Nareed, I didn't know you were a former justice of the U.S. Supreme Court hiding out in Mexico... :) Private citizens can and have limited free speech on their properties. In our own backyard, look at the Venetian trying to ban the porn slappers from their sidewalk. As a matter of fact most states are divided on whether the First Amendment extends to the private sector (cf. Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins et. al.) Sorry to sidetrack the discussion but it's probably better than talking about Jerry ad nauseum...

Quote: teddys

Huh? Nareed, I didn't know you were a former justice of the U.S. Supreme Court hiding out in Mexico... :) Private citizens can and have limited free speech on their properties. In our own backyard, look at the Venetian trying to ban the porn slappers from their sidewalk.

Well, the First Ammendment bars Congress from making any laws restricting, among other things, freedom of speech. That means no private citizen or corporation can violate it.

Second, a property owner can, and does, decide what speech he will permit on his property. TV and radio stations, for example, make such decisions all the time.

So certainly the Venetian can ban porn slappers from its property. If the sidewalk is its property, it can ban them there, too.

Why don't you two get a room. What you need is Sheriff Joe to do a sweep for argumentative individuals who likely cannot remain married or have lifelong friends because of it.

Quote: JerryLogan

Why don't you two get a room. What you need is Sheriff Joe to do a sweep for argumentative individuals who likely cannot remain married or have lifelong friends because of it.

Cute, Jerry. Once again you've shown us that whatever progress you make on this board as to productive comments, you can't help taking two steps backwards.

Quote: teddys

Cute, Jerry. Once again you've shown us that whatever progress you make on this board as to productive comments, you can't help taking two steps backwards.

Not a lot of tingle when the shoe's on the other foot, is there.

Quote: DorothyGale

I completely disagree with you. Calling him "it" strengthens him because he is dehumanized and therefore permitted to behave as a misanthrope.

The best way to "call" a troll is by name ... in this case Ray Cagno. Once his identity is made public, you better believe that puts pressure on him.

--Dorothy

This post is epic fail. It's Rob Singer, you fucking moron.

Quote: RussHaley

You fucking moron.

Ah, at last, someone who knows me better than my own mother, RIP.

--Dorothy

What do you all think? Would I get a different result if I re-ran the poll now? :P

Quote: JerryLogan

By a pretty simple mind.

That might do it, Jerry. Lets see what the Wiz rules.

Quote: EvenBob

That might do it, Jerry. Lets see what the Wiz rules.

Which of Jerry's posts did you lift that from?

Quote: Nareed

What do you all think? Would I get a different result if I re-ran the poll now? :P

Well, good grief, the poll went 3:2 AGAINST last time--was Jerry not in full bloom then, or something? His posts on this thread seem very Jerry.

Quote: mkl654321

Which of Jerry's posts did you lift that from?

My mistake. He made it at the start of the thread, thats where my browser went. DRAT!