We are pleased to welcome the new friends who have joined our close-knit internet community since the election of our lord and savior, Barack Obama. We realize that the President’s Abortions for All plan, which exists only in your head but is nonetheless real and scary to you, angers you greatly, and we’re always pleased to provide a space on any and all posts for you to vent your frustration at the expense of any other topic we might wish to address. Really, we love it. This blog is all about you.
That said, we have a few rules here to keep the peace. The official PAB banning policy is as follows: banning is done at the discretion of the blogger whose post you are shitting on. The good news is, like most liberals and progressives, we’re a bunch of pussies and rarely do anything so confrontational as banning a complete stranger from our text-kingdom. Banning is also usually preceded by lots and lots and lots of warnings, de-vowelings, pleas for less jackassery, and the like. You will almost never be banned without plenty of notice and justification before hand.
UNLESS you do something like the following:
- Threaten to kill, rape, stalk, or harm people
- Publish personal identifying information about yourself or others
- Be a racist and/or sexist and/or homophobic jerk for the pure glee of being an anti-pc sexist, racist, homophobic jerk
and new for 2009:
- hijack the screennames of regular commenters to be a douche
We are much smaller than Pandagon, and hope to avoid the mandatory registration policy that name-hijackers have driven them to. Please assist us in this and we will continue to allow you to vomit all over our comment threads to the very limit of human endurance.
Thank you.
I don’t want to either; commenting on Pandagon and Shakesville is a pain in the ass now.
Is that what’s driving the trolls out? I wondered. Even I got one! And I get, like… three visitors a month, tops.
All hail our new abortion-happy ruler, I guess. ^_^
Banning is also usually preceded by lots and lots and lots of warnings, de-vowelings, pleas for less jackassery, and the like.
Don’t forget photos of Sabo’s and my cats, and manifestations of the hypnotoad! The cats love helping to maintain decorum. Marinetti, in particular, is all about decorum.
I’ll confess: I don’t really understand the hypnotoad. (But then, who does?)
The hypnotoad is a glorious example of the true cutting-edge philosophy of our time!!
Or, I’m a Futurama fan, so it was a placeholder once, then it just caught on as troll deflection.
(Why do any of these memes start?)