How did quidnunc lower the IQ of the forum? I haven't followed his posts.
Are you saying that Jim Robinson should Ban himself for once using the word coarsely, on his own Forum, in ejecting a Gun-Controlling Jack-Boot like Quidnunc?
Ban himself? Hardly.
As to banning quidnunc, or anyone else, I would like to know why, but that didn't prompt my question. JR owes no explanation, although I think it would help his site.
Profanity - that violates the forum rules, no?
Yes, but a great many FReepers let a profane word or two fly from time to time. It's just going to happen in the heat of political discourse. I have observed that Jim Robinson and the mods rarely if ever ban FReepers for the sporadic and superficial violation of this rule.
But espousing liberalism? That profanity goes clear to the bone--to the utter marrow. That's filth of entirely different, far more befouling and destructive nature.
I have.
In every post of his I have ever seen -- there has never been a Foreign War, Drug War, Civil Rights, Privacy Violation, Gun Control, or Eminent Domain of Private Property Thread posted in which Quidnunc did not support the Expansion of Federal Government Power at the expense of the Private Citizenry.
I have never known Quidnunc to call for any restraint of the Federal Government on any issue, whatsoever... and if you dared to disagree with his own Jack-Boot definition of "Conservatism", he'd spam the Thread with accusations that you were a "LiberalDoperTarian" or whatever (never mind that the Thread concerned Privacy or Gun Control or Eminent Domain, or what have you).
His entire Mental Philosophy could be boiled down to "More Government Force = Good, always Good!", and his entire repertoire of intellectual Argumentation did not extend beyond the basest and most stupid Ad Hominem.
I quickly learnt to ignore him, but he still wasted bandwidth at a prodigious rate.
JR owes no explanation, although I think it would help his site. Profanity - that violates the forum rules, no?
"Profanity", to be absolutely exact, involves Profaning the Holy (i.e., the Third Commandment against "Taking the Lord's Name in Vain" and associated blasphemies).
I don't think that Jim has ever been guilty of Profanity, strictly speaking.
Now you might accuse him of "Vulgarity", I suppose -- but, as I said before, "Ass" is a King James Bible Word. There are several passages of Scripture I couldn't even post without employing the term. I think that Jim can probably get away with using the word coarsely, once, on his Own Forum, in ejecting a Jack-Boot gun-controller like "Quidnunc"... without having to Ban Himself.
Best, OP