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Why I Just Blocked Ken

Nov 1, 2009
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This morning I had prematurely joined a group which appears to have originally been created to unite all the bloggers that have blocked Ken from their blog. Now, I am a bona fide member of that group. Below are my reasons for deciding that Ken has abused his privilege to post on my blog:

Ken attempted to access the blog of a fellow blogger who is also my friend. When Ken realized that this person's blog is private, thus inaccessible to uninvited visitors, he sent my friend an offensive email. I considered his actions and the content of that message to be insulting and a form of harassment.

Within the comments section of my Banning Policy post Ken harassed and insulted somebody else. He clearly ignored the warning that I gave him in the Banning Policy post.

Ken also violated Vox's Terms of Service:

7. CONTENT AND CONDUCT RULES AND OBLIGATIONS

Should Content be found or reported to be in violation with, but not limited to, the following terms, it will be in Six Apart's sole discretion as to what action should be taken.

You agree that you will not:

(a) upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy (up to, but not excluding any address, email, phone number, or any other contact information without the written consent of the owner of such information), hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.

Not only have I seen evidence that Ken violated some, or all of the terms which are in bold and underlined text on my blog and in two private messages (One sent to me, the other sent to another recipient), I have also noticed a pattern of such abuse on several blogs. This is more reason why I blocked Ken a short while ago.

I decided to join the group I Blocked Another VOX ***Hole, which appeared to have been originally created as a group to unite the VOX members that have, or will block Ken. I discovered this link at the blog, Here Be Trolls and in the first post that was made to profile an obviously notorious troll, Ken (a.k.a., ken863). I am not at all surprised to see that Ken was the first troll profiled there. I am, however, shocked to see that he has still managed to avoid getting banned by VOX and subsequently losing his blog and account, considering the apparently vast number of VOX TOS that he has committed.

It is my opinion, he should bow to the people that have not complained to VOX about his chronic and frequent abuse of basic rights to free speech and expression.

Banning Policy

Oct 30, 2009
21 comments

I have consistently maintained a personal policy not to ban people from any blog, or forum that I've ever owned, unless they are so abusive, they've asked for it. When I was at modblog, I banned only one member. I did it because he was pasting the same insult-filled remarks and other insults and harassing content in comments sections of numerous posts, plus in the chat box I had on that blog.

I do not ban people for expressing an argumentative viewpoint. Vox members that have known me through the years that go back to the modblog days might recall that I frequently disagreed with people. In those days, if they insulted me, I fired right back at them without straying from the subject, or topic.

As for the other blogs I've owned, I never banned a fellow blogger. None gave me any reason to do it regardless of any that disagreed with my statements, or my political and social views.

As for any other restrictions I've ever made, including material posted in my chat boxes, forums, and blog comment sections, they were to clear out spam and block the spammers.

That's it.

The reason why I mention this is because Ken accused me of banning him in a private message. Although, I suspected that he would put himself in the position where I would have first warned him (unless his conduct was so outrageous that it called for direct action), I was willing to give him a chance to prove to me that he is not a troll, but a person expressing his opinions (however twisted they are).

Here's the private message that he sent to me (Pay attention, Ken. The rest of this post is directed to you.):

"rants

don't rant at me,then block me i already thought of you as a little girl with no sense of decency,now you have just reinvorced it,..."

I did not block you, Ken. Either you are falsely accusing me of it, perhaps being a drama queen, of something else happened. One visitor got cut off by VOX when he attempted to leave a comment on the same post where you were commenting. You might take that as a clue.

However, I have recently discovered that I cannot seem to visit another blog where content is posted of interest to me, especially where I agree with the blogger's sentiments. I have seen you comments on every blog, except one, that one might casually describe as "liberal" which I have visited these past couple of days. They are usually insulting, belittling, and often harassing. If you honestly think that you can silence any of us through these tacticts, you are sadly mistaken. You are obviously creating greater and multiplying limitations on your ability to openly disagree with people on their blogs by giving them reason to ban you.

At this point, I am ready to ban anybody that treats me, or my visitors, abusively. I might first warn that person and give him or her one more chance, but maybe not. If I ban a person it is because that person gave me the impression that he or she wanted me to do it. As far as I am concerned, trolls and habitually abusive people want to be banned.

When I commented on your blog it was before I realized that your conduct is giving people plenty of reason to call you a troll and to ban you. The remarks that I made were in jest, because I mistakenly believed that you have a healthy sense of humor, instead of a twisted one loaded with hateful contempt. Yet, my second comment there (the one about right-wing conspiracy theory and the Dale character on King of the Hill) disappeared. I didn't throw a tantrum and fire off a private, or a public rant about it when I thought that you deleted it. I handled it as a mature adult does.

As for your attempt to carry our discussion from the blog, to my private message box, I'll paste that part of your message and respond to it in the next post. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you had technical difficulties here, thus was unable to continue the discussion. Therefore, I'll paste that either in a new post, or in the comments section for the post where that discussion began.