With the minor brouhaha (now a major plaigarism scandal) over the Ben Domenech "Red America" blog over at the Washington Post I thought I'd take a peek at Redstate, the blog Domenech was a founding member of. I'd never heard of Domenech though I had stopped in to Redstate for sometimes humorous, but mostly disturbing, diversion from time to time.
Having registered under the pseudonym Chris Andersen some time ago I lurked until I found
this little gem posted by someone only known as "streiff" beating up on the
three rescued hostages today simply for not having enough good manners to suit his taste.
I know how thin skinned and skittish these pimply-faced twenty-something home-schooled types can be so I started off with a very mild critique. I was flamed immediately by the author and responded in as reserved a manner as possible while holding my ground.
The exchange was getting good and I was clearly wiping up the floor with streiff when BLAM the big bad wolf, in the form of Leon H. Wolf, saved streiff, from the mental beating he was receiving, by banning me.
Now I'm not claiming any notoriety in beating up on someone who might(?) do better at a Special Olympics frisbee toss then a theological streetfight. What I do claim is changing Redstates policies.
Redstate has only appeared to be an open community. I've watched them flame dissenters with the regularity of an Arthurian dragon. They ban you if you even remotely show any sign of a cohesive, intelligent argument. Now their true colors show through as they have instituted a 5 day "waiting period" to comment that was instituted shortly after I was banned. Delusions of grandeur you ask? Hardly, I'm just the argument that exploded the collectives hive brain.
Which raises the question as to just how long it can be before they ban comments altogether? Won't that be a sight - they'll have to get permission from somebody's Mom to hold meetings in somebody's basement, in the dark, an incestual communal circle jerk of infantile affirmation and bruised intellects.
I suggest a contest as to who can actually get banned the quickest over at Redstate. We'll have those boy's in the basement before the cherry blossoms bloom. I'll post a follow up in a week or so, there might even be cookies and milk for the winner.