[OBW]

I note that the "mute button" has been suggested. Tried that years ago on someone else. Well, the ignore list is more like it. But it is a mixed blessing. You get the silence of the elimination of the noise from the undesired poster. But too many others are busy quoting them and commenting on them, so they never really go away. It just makes dealing with the thread a muddled mess.

But it is sometimes true that if no one responds to them they will get the hint and go away. Worked on someone claiming to have received Lee's mantle. Well, sort of. And sort of worked on someone pushing a new way to "do" the Christian faith — that is until they got frustrated and started little private diatribes in both the open forum and in private messages. Don't know for sure how/why, but they eventually disappeared.

The problem is that leaving garbage unchallenged and without push-back suggests to some, especially those reading without active participation, that what is said is OK. That taints us all. It isn't worth it. This forum (and the other) is primarily for the discussion of the LRC. It does provide some non-LRC fellowship. But I do expect fellowship to be civil.

As was part of another recent discussion, I note that Paul said all things should be done in order. If someone joins your church on a Sunday and stands in the middle to speak as this guy has, what do you think should be done? Especially when his only concern is whether someone stopped him from doing it?

Why do you think this forum should be any more tolerant of such behavior than a church assembly? I've seen what he posted openly as well as some of the nasty private messages he writes. Quit excusing the adult for childish behavior.

Meanwhile, too much resources have gone into defending what should have been praised by all. It is the encouragement of one or two that has kept him trying to get back in one place or the other. Unless his demeanor is suddenly very different, he will fail again and again because he thinks it is just happenstance that he got ejected. But so far he has proved that there is a standard and that he has failed to measure up. And such a low standard it is. Failing to meet it is failure indeed.