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Old 04-20-2004, 11:17 PM   #15
Samson
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Yes, it was me who removed the post. I saw it for what it was - a useless troll to try and ignite another flamewar. Kris has been dilligently doing so month after month, crafting ever more interesting ways to try and smear us in the process. To have someone *ELSE* show up and try to fan the flames was too much and I moved to delete it as soon as I saw it. Obviously I was too late.

While we do believe in the principles of free speech on Kenetix, I too agree with Xorith that it comes with some level of responsibility. What the troll did could be viewed as "incitement to riot" which last I checked, in the US, is not a good thing to be doing. I had figured Kris would appreciate having it dealt with quickly so as not to have it seen by the whole world, but I guess he doesn't, since he rushed to rip the page source and post it on his server. It's not the first time he's rushed off to do something like that to make us look bad before asking us to remove it and then claiming it was removed due to puiblic pressure from him. Well this time it's his fault of dozens of people now get to read what he's taken offense to. We did what we felt was right in trying to mitigate the damage. At least the two polls which had also been posted were never picked up by anyone. If you can believe it, those polls were easily more offensive than the now immortalized post.

It should also be noted that the imposter poster showed up again later that day to repost the entire thing along with another post, both of which were equally vulgar and offensive. Fortunately those got noticed before Kris had the chance to immortalize them.
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