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@Velocio @hippy can you please ban Bastin_D ? https://www.lfgss.com/profiles/150159/

This user has clearly signed up with no other purpose than to troll. That has now spilled over into racist / xenophobic posts in the EU Ref thread:

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15020042/

Yeah and board line homophobia for good measure before I put them on ignore.

Ah, the good ol' "it was only a joke mate" defence. No trolls have ever used that before.

Having read through a good selection of the comments I agree that you are a pretty horrible racist and homophobic person. Whether that makes you a troll is another matter, but I definitely agree with nuking everything you've said and banning you.

Yay!

He'll be back.

Oh I'm sure of it.

So anyone who registers from now and participates in those two threads and looks even slightly suspicious... let me know.

Thanks

I am a bit shocked by this.

Yes, he's a Tory, yes he's a brexit supporter.

But we just echo chambered him away? For why? Having political views we don't like or agree with?

Maybe I was so sucked in as to be blind to it, but I do not think it was an open an shut case that he was Mamnick, or that he was being more racist that being a right wing leaver demands.

I also didn't see any homophobic stuff, but may have missed it.

I don't want this place to ban people because they vote differently to me. I really don't.

And yeah, you can say that he is still trolling me from beyond the grave. But I just don't see it.

I think I agree.

Likewise. He was pretty much keeping it civil while everyone else called him a cunt.
The send them back "joke" was out of order but that's about all I saw wrong

For why? Having political views we don't like or agree with?

No, not for having political views we don't like.

For being racist and homophobic.

I'm not giving a pass just because it's in a politics thread, I wouldn't give it a pass in a philosophy thread either, and much to the chagrin of many I've not given it a pass in the football thread where everyone tries to defend it as part of the culture and tradition of the sport.

There are racists and homophobes who support other political parties, and I didn't even read anything specific that said that they were voting Conservative, only that they really didn't like Labour (but it wasn't clear to me whether that is Corbyn, national party, local party, etc).

I banned him for the racism and homophobia. Not for politics, and not even for trolling (I disagreed that they were a troll, that was less obvious to me).

he was a threadshitter who only came in to argue alt-right points on the two political threads. Both those threads had a three day derail while people argued the toss with him and he refused to deviate from his 'opinion', which was a basic bitch box-set of Youtube think points. He wasn't a great forumer, and people like him fuck up the place for everyone else.

^ they do, but only with the help of people who fool themselves in to thinking they are 'engaging' with him.

Did anyone call him a cunt? Several people suggested he might be well known forum cunt Thom from Mamnick, but that seemed like a fair assessment.

I am a bit shocked by this. we just echo chambered him away?

Yes, but I wonder why you're shocked by something so unsurprising

A couple times.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15020060/
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15016744/

Threads are a bit boring when everyone just agrees

Ha, well, I stand happily corrected. Nevertheless, if one signs up for a cycling forum for the sole purpose of winding up people on a politics thread with no intent other than to troll, what would you call that person?

Why not just ignore him/her?

I've thrown around my fair share of insults. Just don't think he should be banned for voicing his otherwise* inoffensive opinion, however persistently

*with the exception of the xenophobic joke
**I didn't see any homophobia

I also thought he/they wasn't a troll. I maybe missed the bad stuff.

I also thought he/they wasn't a troll.

I agree. I didn't think they were a troll, and I didn't think they were bobble hat guy.

I missed the part about him being into cycling.

He joined to talk about gravel bikes. Nobody needs more of that on here