Oh, Lord, just what I need....a compliment from Gargoyle...


As far as the BNP goes, I think it is very important to be vigilant - but I also think it is important to be rational and civil, not hysterical and abusive. I don't think it would be worthwhile to reason with the BNP, but nonetheless I think our responses should be rational. Constant streams of profanity and name-calling and bullying party followers, just tends to draw "outside agitators" because they know they can find a place to fight here.

As for the Facebook problem, look at Jeri's post about it above. As far as we can tell, the person responsible was the same one who was responsible for the alterations of the Mudcat Wikipedia entry, and was the same person who trolled under a variety of names here - long before the BNP ever came to prominence. There's a good chance our primary "BNP" antagonist, isn't a member of the BNP at all - he's just a troll who made suckers out of a lot of hysterical Mudcatters. Now, if the Mudcatters could have just been smart enough not to respond....

People angrily demand that we remove offensive posts, and accuse us of negligence if we don't - but what good does it do to remove a post when a dozen people have already responded to it in the first ten minutes? Sorry, but I still subscribe to Max's belief that this community has to police itself.

-Joe-

P.S. Gargoyle, please contact me by e-mail. People have asked me to pass things on to you. -joe@mudcat.org-