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Exactly. It's inconceivable how SailorBoy has been banned and Balance and the like continue to spew forth their vitriol. It doesn't make sense.
I don't come to a forum like this for group think. Its great to see people's ideas challenged. Yep, SailorBoy has a certain style, but hey, we aren't marrying him. We're just trying to gain bits of knowledge to help our investing skills.
SailorBoy has contributed plenty in this area from my perspective.
And of course, if you don't like a particular posters style and content, well, its dead easy to pop them on ignore as Snow Leopard did to me this morning. Thats completely appropriate.
But to get the guy banned ? Really disappointing.
Ol' Sailor had a sense of humour but couldn't read the room. I thought many of his points were interesting, possibly correct, and almost all poorly delivered. It doesn't surprise me that he got enough backs up to be voted off the island, I'm not sure I agree that he should have been, though.
Yeah nobody is trying to argue that SB was very polite.
But very bad call by the admins banning him I think. He does make very valuable contributions and banning him because of ‘offended’ a few people is absurd.
If you don’t value his contributions and just find his posts hurt your feelings - add him to the ignore and move on. But don’t go whinging to the admins that he is a naughty boy who wasn’t nice to you. Jesus.
And agreed that guys like Unbalanced and Waa_Waa are absolute trolls but don’t seem to be banned for it. How is that fair?
Glad to see the back of SR. Any thread he was involved with quickly became a string of deprecating abuse and insult. Clearly suffering some need to try and humiliate people. Blocking him is not an appropriate response. People like that should not be provided with a platform. Offering some useful insight is completely negated if you are going to offend everybody in doing so. Would you accept racist remarks? Foul language? Insane ramblings? Hate speech? Well then - there are some limits to the extent that you can offend people. Ñot saying that SR is guilty of that, but those posters saying that it is a crying shame for SR to be blocked are simply displaying a very high tolerance for boorishness.