[Cialug] OT: forum harassment

[Tony Bibbs]

Yeah, we have very clear rules:

http://www.iowaoutdoors.org/staticpages/index.php/Rules

He earned the ban with this:

"I hate carp, but if you like them please give me them away or fertilize 
your garden with them and protect our diverse eco system and yes if you 
see any asians or latinos, they will be happy to take the carp off your 
hands."

I wouldn't jump so far as to call the guy racist but at the very least 
he's stereotyping TWO entire races.  In the meantime I'm trying to get a 
hold of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales...according to this guy, 
I've got some fresh carp he'd take off my hands.  What a tool.

--Tony


Stuart Thiessen wrote:
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> If you have clear forum guidelines that he clearly broke, that will go a 
> long way to help show that he has been properly banned. If you don't 
> have any guidelines, then I suggest you write some up. Just my 2 cents 
> worth. Those guidelines would be helpful in creating that 
> cease-and-desist letter. It also shows that you are not being arbitrary 
> in banning his comments.
> 
> Another avenue could be to see if you can mobilize other users in the 
> forum to create positive peer pressure to help him see his actions are 
> not helping his standing with the community in the forum. If this is 
> done in a positive way, then it can help offset anything he does say and 
> make it clear that he does not speak for the forum and his view is a 
> minority view.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stuart
> 
> On Mar 22, 2006, at 11:49, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> 
>> His emails are simply saying he won't go away until I unban him...no 
>> real good threats yet, though, I'm guessing he'll eventually get to 
>> that point.
>>
>> --Tony
>>
>> David Champion wrote:
>>> Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>> I run a lowly hunting and fishing website that has been around for 
>>>> nearly 6 years.  I've finally run into a situation where I had to 
>>>> ban a guy by IP for being an idiot (racist comments) and now he's 
>>>> simply hopping from PC to PC finding new IP's, creating new accounts 
>>>> and posting.
>>>>
>>>> This all materialized today, but my plan is to simply give this a 
>>>> few days to see if it dies down.  But in an effort of planning, are 
>>>> there any viable legal actions one can take?  I know who the guys 
>>>> is, just don't have anything I can really do.  My hunch is he will 
>>>> grow tired of it all, but what are my options if he doesn't?
>>>>
>>>> --Tony
>>> (IANAL disclamer etc...)
>>> I would guess that if you had a lawyer send him a Cease and Desist 
>>> letter, it would probably scare him enough to knock it off.
>>> Depending on what kind of comments he's making, he could be breaking 
>>> various hate-crime laws, or if he's making threats he could be in 
>>> trouble for that too.
>>> -dc
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