Originally Posted by
SrslySirius
While we're on the subject, it's pretty funny that splitthis is still allowed to post to here. Druff likes to ignore these psychopath stalker situations (SEE: lewfather, sixtoedpete, tehcollector) until they're completely out of control, and sometimes even then still look the other way. I hope this doesn't get him into legal trouble some day.
That's not really a fair characterization of what has happened here.
techcollector was here very briefly, and then left voluntarily when I expressed to him privately that I wasn't going to allow threatening of other members. That one actually ended the easiest. He said that he respected me and would leave without incident, and did.
Sixtoedpete was just a longtime troll and idiot, but then he graduated into threatening people. Almost immediately after, people found the Cash Gifting Cabby videos, and started posting them like crazy (and making GIFs, etc). Then Sixtoedpete demanded to me that I remove them, I refused, and that's when he turned his entire focus onto me, and threatened me. Then he threatened to post my dad's personal info, and I banned him, and that's when his obsession with me began.
lewfather was the only one I should have taken action against sooner, but the problem was that every report about him was, "Don't say anything to him, because I don't want him freaking out, but..." And he was a longtime member here. So I felt it was hard to just ban someone like him without being able to cite justification to the community. "He was harassing people but I can't say who or when" didn't seem like it would fly. Everyone who reported it seemed to be doing it in a "FYI" type way, and all claimed to have pretty much handled it (mainly by mostly ignoring him). Still, I should have put an end to the whole thing earlier, and I won't let anything like that happen again.
In splitthis' case, she's also a longtime member of this community, and has no history of harassing or threatening people in real life. Still don't know what set her off to such a degree about Kilgore, but honestly she does need to tone it down. I don't feel splitthis needs a ban at this point. I've always just seen her as the salty, brash, middle-aged midwestern woman type, and not really as an actual threat to anyone here.