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		By: neo-neocon		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/06/14/theme-and-variations-vs-symphony-on/#comment-17190</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[neo-neocon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I said in today&#039;s post, I will be dealing with the troll problem in a little while, probably after I get back from vacation (perhaps even sooner, if I can get around to it).  It requires some reorganization, so please bear with me.  But I agree that other approaches are no longer working and something needs to be done.  Rest assured, it will be.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I said in today&#8217;s post, I will be dealing with the troll problem in a little while, probably after I get back from vacation (perhaps even sooner, if I can get around to it).  It requires some reorganization, so please bear with me.  But I agree that other approaches are no longer working and something needs to be done.  Rest assured, it will be.</p>
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		By: stumbley		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/06/14/theme-and-variations-vs-symphony-on/#comment-17191</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stumbley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our main mistake with you has been treating a troll like a poster.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our main mistake with you has been treating a troll like a poster.</p>
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		By: Senescent Wasp		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/06/14/theme-and-variations-vs-symphony-on/#comment-17192</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Senescent Wasp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is no way given the current configuration of Blogger to ban by IP address or login name. Many other bloggers have moved to hosted formats that require some up front set up and continuing upgrades and management but give the blogger more flexibility in controlling their own blogs.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As an aside, the Free Speech doctrine only applies to government controlling speech. It is a credit to American&#039;s that they have internalized the precepts but as everyone with an un diseased brain knows, someone spewing bile in your house forfeits any rights to speech in that house. That&#039;s what gutters are for. To keep the trash headed for the drains.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I expect that what the current spewer is waiting for is for neo to begin to delete its&#039; comments so it can rise up in righteous indignation. However, it may think that Neo will tire of the whole thing and quit blogging. It is obviously reality challenged so its&#039; motivations are not clear and may be more glandular in nature.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I suspect it will just squat here, glowering and spewing the occasional burst of spittle as is the nature of these beasts.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is no way given the current configuration of Blogger to ban by IP address or login name. Many other bloggers have moved to hosted formats that require some up front set up and continuing upgrades and management but give the blogger more flexibility in controlling their own blogs.</p>
<p>As an aside, the Free Speech doctrine only applies to government controlling speech. It is a credit to American&#8217;s that they have internalized the precepts but as everyone with an un diseased brain knows, someone spewing bile in your house forfeits any rights to speech in that house. That&#8217;s what gutters are for. To keep the trash headed for the drains.</p>
<p>I expect that what the current spewer is waiting for is for neo to begin to delete its&#8217; comments so it can rise up in righteous indignation. However, it may think that Neo will tire of the whole thing and quit blogging. It is obviously reality challenged so its&#8217; motivations are not clear and may be more glandular in nature.</p>
<p>I suspect it will just squat here, glowering and spewing the occasional burst of spittle as is the nature of these beasts.</p>
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		By: Sally		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/06/14/theme-and-variations-vs-symphony-on/#comment-17193</link>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sorry to further sulley neo&#039;s fine post with comments on the troll, but it occurred to me that he may be looking for martyrdom -- but isn&#039;t too keen on the, you know, death part. So he might be &lt;I&gt;trying&lt;/I&gt; to get banned in the hope that maybe a metaphorical blog-death might be worth, if not the whole 72, at least a virgin or two. You think?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry to further sulley neo&#8217;s fine post with comments on the troll, but it occurred to me that he may be looking for martyrdom &#8212; but isn&#8217;t too keen on the, you know, death part. So he might be <i>trying</i> to get banned in the hope that maybe a metaphorical blog-death might be worth, if not the whole 72, at least a virgin or two. You think?</p>
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		By: maryatexitzero		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/06/14/theme-and-variations-vs-symphony-on/#comment-17194</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[maryatexitzero]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[..it&#039;s also the reason I banned the one and only person I&#039;ve ever banned from my own blog, but since this isn&#039;t my blog, it&#039;s just a personal observation..]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>..it&#8217;s also the reason I banned the one and only person I&#8217;ve ever banned from my own blog, but since this isn&#8217;t my blog, it&#8217;s just a personal observation..</p>
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		By: Goesh		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/06/14/theme-and-variations-vs-symphony-on/#comment-17195</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Goesh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[...oh]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;oh</p>
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		By: maryatexitzero		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/06/14/theme-and-variations-vs-symphony-on/#comment-17196</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[maryatexitzero]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;I&gt;was that a nudge or a hint, Mary?&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#039;s just a personal observation..]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>was that a nudge or a hint, Mary?</i></p>
<p>It&#8217;s just a personal observation..</p>
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		By: Goesh		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/06/14/theme-and-variations-vs-symphony-on/#comment-17197</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Goesh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[was that a nudge or a hint, Mary?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>was that a nudge or a hint, Mary?</p>
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		By: maryatexitzero		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/06/14/theme-and-variations-vs-symphony-on/#comment-17198</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[maryatexitzero]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[confudeforeigner - a blog really isn&#039;t really comparable to newspaper, so commenting isn&#039;t a free speech issue. A newspaper is a public thing, run for profit, accountable to the public. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A blog is more comparable to a dinner party, where, if politics are the subject, guests are expect to have dissenting views. The amount of rudeness involved depends on the host&#039;s tolerance. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;However, when a guest starts shouting his views regardless of the general subject, abusing the host, defecating on the rug and vomiting all over everyone&#039;s shoes, there&#039;s a problem. At that point, a bouncer or a diaper is required.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>confudeforeigner &#8211; a blog really isn&#8217;t really comparable to newspaper, so commenting isn&#8217;t a free speech issue. A newspaper is a public thing, run for profit, accountable to the public. </p>
<p>A blog is more comparable to a dinner party, where, if politics are the subject, guests are expect to have dissenting views. The amount of rudeness involved depends on the host&#8217;s tolerance. </p>
<p>However, when a guest starts shouting his views regardless of the general subject, abusing the host, defecating on the rug and vomiting all over everyone&#8217;s shoes, there&#8217;s a problem. At that point, a bouncer or a diaper is required.</p>
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		By: stumbley		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/06/14/theme-and-variations-vs-symphony-on/#comment-17199</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stumbley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s a little gem from Lileks (www.lileks.com):&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;&quot;The little time I spent on the internet consisted of random clicking on various blogs, most of which were unreadable Serious Deeply Concerned and Troubled accounts of things that Ought to make the Murcanpeeple Angry, but don’t, because they’re all fat-bottomed idiots who run Bill O’Reilly transcripts through the shredder and roll the pieces into small, informative suppositories. Whatever. Thaaaat’s right. Everyone who doesn’t want impeachment is an idiot, just like everyone who didn’t think Bill Clinton personally dragged dead boys onto train tracks to cover up his coke ring was a Commie-Nazi who probably believes Vince Foster killed himself and Ron Brown wasn&#039;t shot down by Chinese spaceships. When I’m in this mood the entire Internet is annoying, and I should just go sit outside and throw grapes at the squirrels. &lt;/I&gt;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a little gem from Lileks (www.lileks.com):</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The little time I spent on the internet consisted of random clicking on various blogs, most of which were unreadable Serious Deeply Concerned and Troubled accounts of things that Ought to make the Murcanpeeple Angry, but don’t, because they’re all fat-bottomed idiots who run Bill O’Reilly transcripts through the shredder and roll the pieces into small, informative suppositories. Whatever. Thaaaat’s right. Everyone who doesn’t want impeachment is an idiot, just like everyone who didn’t think Bill Clinton personally dragged dead boys onto train tracks to cover up his coke ring was a Commie-Nazi who probably believes Vince Foster killed himself and Ron Brown wasn&#8217;t shot down by Chinese spaceships. When I’m in this mood the entire Internet is annoying, and I should just go sit outside and throw grapes at the squirrels. </i></p>
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