Earl Croasmun -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 MG>>> As mellow as Earl is it's a wonder that anyone ever gets
 ->> vacations from MG> here. :)  Although when someone does get one they
 ->> are surely deserving it.

 ->> He booted Klahn for... well being Klahn.

 EC> "Being Klahn" encompasses a number of faults.  Most of those faults
 EC> weren't against the rules.  The fault of hypocrisy was.

I figured I'd leave it at him just being him.

 EC> For years he has been insisting that he doesn't want to ever flame
 EC> anyone.  He only flames when he is forced to, he said.  That
 EC> demonstrated his faults of not telling the truth, and of not taking
 EC> responsibility for his own actions.

Don't I know it. The first time I encountered him was when Mimi cross
posted one of his screeds into politics.

My entire reply was "Who is Bob Klahn and why should anyone take what
he says seriously?" or something to that effect.

The next thing I knew he was pouncing on my reply with his usual
self-important nonsense.

Now watch, he will either cross post this into All-Politics or Crossfire 
to "ALL" and level a few insults at me because I mentioned his
name.

He can't help himself.

 EC> Last fall, though, he went on a binge of criticizing people for flames.
 EC> At the SAME TIME he went on a binge of flaming.  Ross C. pointed out his
 EC> hypocrisy, but he didn't grasp the point Ross made.  So I created the
 EC> rule that moderators have to follow THEIR OWN RULES as well as mine when
 EC> in this echo.  Ross followed the rule.  Roger followed the rule,
 EC> possibly without knowing about it, just because he is a nice guy.  I was
 EC> going to leave it in place for a few months to see if Klahn could bring
 EC> himself to follow his own rules.  But I didn't fully appreciate how
 EC> unstable Klahn really is.  He gave Sauer two weeks for saying
"lie,"
 EC> even though he violated that same rule here repeatedly.  When he got the
 EC> same two weeks, he became totally unhinged.  He banned me from his echo,
 EC> he violated his own suspension three times, he went ranting to sysops in
 EC> an effort to get them to drop the echo, and he made one of the most
 EC> pathetically stupid threats of a lawsuit that I have ever heard.  It is
 EC> so sad to see an over-grown man cry.  And he hasn't come to his senses
 EC> yet.

We aren't dealing with a stable personality.

Ed

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