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Someone needs to take a deep breath and go for a walk.

You're a editor of the site and all I see is a child throwing a little tantrum party because what a user has said seems to hit a little too close to the truth for your liking.

You must be new here . This guy's been consistently trolling for a long time now, and I've been getting consistent complaints from readers for a long time now. On any other site, he'd been banned months ago, but I'm actually pretty relaxed about these things. However, when the consistent lies and personal attacks just keep on coming, even though the very article he is commenting to - among many - disqualifies his lies outright, then, well, I'm fully within my right to put a stop to it.

We have enough people in here who disagree with me on a regular basis without ever resorting to trolling and structural insipid lying about me.

Except it isn't the truth or anything close to it.

But either way there is no point getting annoyed by the original poster, he is probably the most marked down commenter on this site. I seldom ever see any of his comments get a positive rating (they're usually marked down into oblivion...not a sign of a meaningful but unpopular comment, more of a sign of useless trolling)

That child is your typical hit and run troll - he posts nonsense, reasonable people devote time and energy to reply, but he completely ignores them and posts the same shit over and over again in new threads. I think some annoyance is justified in this case.
Take a look here: http://www.osnews.com/thread?472631
and here: http://www.osnews.com/thread?471309
and well... take a look yourself.

You wouldn't happen to belong on the Council of Foreign Relations or the Bilderberg Group would you?

Seems like that post is more along their mindset, not on a forum discussing OS related topics in licensing.

-Hack

mrhasbean has now gone.

Quite an apt user name in hindsight.

I don't tend to agree with mrhasbean's comments, and I can understand your frustration at being accused of bias, but it's a shame if you think it's necessary to ban.

Apart from the attacks on other people's judgement (which are wholly unnecessary), mrhasbean tends to express valid opinions (they appear to be genuinely held, even if they're not true), and personally I like to see the other side of the argument put forcefully at times.

I'd urge you to reconsider.

I don't tend to agree with mrhasbean's comments, and I can understand your frustration at being accused of bias, but it's a shame if you think it's necessary to ban. "

I personally see mrhasbean as a damn troll, but even I disagree with banning him. I am probably a little too lenient with people, it takes a lot for me to even kick someone off temporarily and a whole lot more for me to ban someone.

And well, he did do some good, too: even though he tries to troll and berate Google, Thom etc. he mostly just manages to instead incite people shooting down his arguments and posts and thus giving lots of useful reading for people, especially people who do not frequent OSNews that much or don't know enough about the topic at hand. To say it in an other way: he posts negative comments, but that just generates more often than not lots of insightful, positive comments and thus the end result is just good, not bad.

Yeah, its sorta tough to distinguish between rampant fanboy-ism, stupidity,and out right trolls.

I'm not sure which one of those three he was. I don't blame Thom for his frustration, but I've been banned from some political sites as well for stupid reasons such as trying to bring consistent logic into discussions.

I don't mind the ban based on the history.I hope that Thom will continue to extend just as much patience towards users as he showed for this guy.

This is a little strong but Tom is right. No matter what he says people are there to criticize him. Cut him some slack, by far he is the biggest contributor of articles to this sight. Don't be so discouraging.