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First and foremost I'd like it to be known that I do not like having to do this kind of thing. However in the interest of protecting the site from bad actors that seem to have unlimited time but no time to have a discussion about how to behave here. My hope is that this will lead to a discussion and a real solution to the behavior that has been causing problems here on poal.co. @Hanswormhat I genuinely tried to reason with you without resorting to using admin abilities, and your behavior is at this point just abusive. I genuinely regret its come to this.

The straw that broke the camels back is the abusive comments on almost every post. This in my view is attempting to discourage people from speaking and is attempting to use his speech to silence others. This is not acceptable and is not ban worthy but I'm not going to let it continue until a agreement can be reached.

I have not had to take this kind of action in almost a year and I'm very happy I can say that. I don't do it lightly or without a considerable amount of thought.

As always if you think I have made a mistake please call me out on it.

First and foremost I'd like it to be known that I do not like having to do this kind of thing. However in the interest of protecting the site from bad actors that seem to have unlimited time but no time to have a discussion about how to behave here. My hope is that this will lead to a discussion and a real solution to the behavior that has been causing problems here on poal.co. @Hanswormhat I genuinely tried to reason with you without resorting to using admin abilities, and your behavior is at this point just abusive. I genuinely regret its come to this. The straw that broke the camels back is the abusive comments on almost every post. This in my view is attempting to discourage people from speaking and is attempting to use his speech to silence others. This is not acceptable and is not ban worthy but I'm not going to let it continue until a agreement can be reached. I have not had to take this kind of action in almost a year and I'm very happy I can say that. I don't do it lightly or without a considerable amount of thought. As always if you think I have made a mistake please call me out on it.

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That’s not what I’m trying to say no. I’m trying to say you shouldnt be allowed to stop people from using their speech to make meaningful arguments if they want to by spamming a site.

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I'm still not understanding how he's stopping anyone from anything, but whatever

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

I think you're focusing on the wrong part of the post simply because you want to point out where @pmyb2 might have been a tad hyperbolic. Hans' shit was getting out of hand. You're right, for the most part he was a harmless faggot, but holy shit he fagged up chat along with trolling almost every post that wasn't his. Did you even read the most important part of OP's post?

>My hope is that this will lead to a discussion and a real solution to the behavior that has been causing problems here on poal.co

Hans' account is disabled, not banned. The has been plenty of discussion on a solution, but you're silly if you think user blocking is as easy as adding another condition to some random script. Considering all of this (and keep in mind i came here from voat because of the recent shit putt pulled), I have no issue with this.

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Nah it's cool, we're on the same page now.

It just got really close to looking like censorship, and I saw some sycophants appearing to support the idea. I felt a moral obligation to step in and be like "hey whoa there" since Hans doesn't bother me. In fact, I'm subbed to his Youtube channel.. it's great check it out. Everyone go sub

TBH I saw all this coming the day I found Poal (a few days ago when Voat went temporarily gay) bc I came thinking "I wonder if Hans is here yet" since we're -2 buddies (I mean, people on Voat whose posts never show up without clicking because everyone thinks we suck dicks) And when I saw him I posted something like, "Oh cool you're here, let's shit this place up" Although I didn't realize he would become the star of the front page