Comments on: Not in my neighborhood: mikeeUSA removed from sourceforge

By: www2

www2 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:45:01 +0000

Thx for banding him form sf.net.
As a forum admin and small contributor of the vega strike project i heft a fare share of using the ban hammer to him.

By: Hat

Hat — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:34:17 +0000

So much for “Free as in speech” huh?

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:34:14 +0000

hi as stumler I found this good work but you need to pass on details to your federal authories to realy stop this coward else it will just move to over site or countries here in aussie it would be prohibted from all comupters at least. report this coward before it does bodyly harm all the best Bill

By: Jakob Markström Gröhn

Jakob Markström Gröhn — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:46:31 +0000

Hi Beth Lynn Eicher, just wanted to say thank you and well done. I am a admin of the alientrap.org forums, I have had my fair share of banning/moderating Mikee at above mentioned forums (funny enough i found this page from a post mikee made there complaining about it).

The internet, and especially sf.net, as it stands today is a better place tnx to your efforts.

For the ppl who advocate doing nothing or are sad and the lack of consequences on the net, heres some food for tough – the internet’s a true democracy (or anarchy i guess – the users decides whats ok or not. And saying its not ok is just as much (probably more so) for concern of other ppl then it is about punishing or making the “wrongee get better”. After all, the majority of ppl get rather upset by the way mikee acts.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:35:29 +0000

Sad part about the internet, anybody can say what they please without much consequences.

By: Jeffrey Wisniewski

Jeffrey Wisniewski — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:05:16 +0000

People have a right to their opinions until they are hurting other people. Now he can make his comments in the privacy of his own cave and not force them onto everybody that the internet touches.

By: linuxiac38

linuxiac38 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:23:50 +0000

He actually advocates the overthrow of the Bill of Rights!!!

As a major part of his idiot agenda, he avidly advocates the truncation of the First and Second Amendments!

He wants to take away our Free Speech, and our weapons that defend it!

Also, after reading his bilious oral vomit on many website communities, I applaud and will defend those who have made the correct action of removing this vile anachronism.

Thank you for defending our Bill of Rights, and the Constitution of the United States!

Sincerely, A retired Veteran, and current Patriot.

By: BaVinic

BaVinic — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:17:21 +0000

I have never had dealings with this person of whom you speak, and I am not privy to the issue at hand, but I do wish to applaud you for taking a stand against this type of “terror” no one ANYWHERE should ever have to be treated with such disrespect by anyone. The open source community has provided us with uncountable advances in just about every field you can think of, this type of behavior will keep people from submitting new ideas, and worse of all, it will keep women out of the open source arena, and that in and of itself would be a loss that cannot be tolerated. again, I applaud you for your actions, as a man, I am ashamed of any man who thinks threatening or hurting a woman is a right, it is not. it is a shame.

By: Christopher Browne

Christopher Browne — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:52:34 +0000

I don’t disagree that this character is odious and awful…

Alas, I’m not sure that this necessarily *helps.*

Mike’s presumably still where ever he is, and presumably hasn’t lost any of his odious opinions.

Indeed, by attacking him, there’s a sense in which you validate his opinions. I’m certain *he* has no difficulty believing that he’s being persecuted by women, and your success at booting him off SourceForge will underline that to him.

Unfortunately, this matters, because it’s liable to put more venom in his belly.

The things he has been acting out on web fora may turn into things he acts out physically, which would presumably be a mighty bad thing for whatever woman might be nearby to him.

The principle seems to apply fairly widely… Shutting up bigots doesn’t stop them from being bigots (whether it’s about sexism or racism), and it would be a mistake to imagine that the result of this has been to “eliminate a bigot.” There’s a lot of bigots about who simply know when to keep their mouths shut.

I vigorously disagree with the comment to the effect of “kicking them out until they grow up” – it’s entirely plausible that this fellow’s character (bigoted and all) has matured as much as it’s likely to. It’s wishful to imagine that he’ll suddenly become joy and smiles .

I guess I’m glad something was done about him, as that seems necessary. But we should not fool ourselves into thinking that this is a complete resolution of the issue.

By: twitter

twitter — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:58:29 +0000

Bravo. There really are not many of these people around but they can do a lot of harm. Kicking them out until they grow up will make the places where normal people hang out much nicer. Commercial trolls are a little more subtle but do most of the same things for money. Here is a collection of Slashdot Trolls. Thank you for showing that action can be taken.