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his goal was always to WIN the internets via outlasting and having the last word even if a meaningless one...
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Couldn't that phrase equally apply to the posters that Kwikki was often debating in the politics thread and the clinic?  
Throwing around insults always risks incurring a ban of some sort.
		
 
		
	 
Horsesch!t.
Patrick may be masterful at oneliners but you can't say he was trying to win anything.
Now it was early in the morning but well past closing time so I may have been wrong about the drunkeness. More seriously, you saw how many people the guy pissed off while saying nothing of substance. You also saw me ask him repeatedly to post anything on topic and deal with post not poster. Those are also forum rules; they get stretched outside race threads, but usually by posters who've brought content. Kwikki reminded me of the yobs in UK pubs who get in a half-drunken state of desublimated aggression and come walking straight at you. 4 out of 5 when elbow checked before they make contact will offer to buy a drink. The fifth will get belligerant and say "what? who? me! I wasn't doing anything." I wanted him moderated and he wasn't doing it himself as the big boys in the politics thread do. The guy also tailed me across threads as is the new fashion.
@bigmac, I generally respect your sensibilities and intentions, but I'd dial the sensitivity training back from kneejerk on this one. Early in his foray to the politics thread kwikki told me to get off the porch and put a shirt on (or cover my wifebeater). Whiskey Tango jokes are all good fun if you've been a contributor. He hadn't. Shouldn't be a big deal if I crack wise about aged UK pub flotsam.
The fey passive aggressivity had to go, and I knew what he was doing so I ramped it up--as I said I would--full-frontal, to see what shook loose. I've no problem with a ban. I also knew Dan was on it. (And told blutto at least a month ago that he was a sock.)
(UK snipes aside, I have loads of brilliant, giving,  inspirational friends there.)
I depreciate the bans of Patrick and Scott.