How is this not a personal attack?

[Stinky The Clown]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1814435#1814446

I have alerted on it twice.

It still stands.

[Skinner]

1. Looks like it was deleted. (nt)

[Stinky The Clown]

2. For what its worth, that poster has been cited elsewhere as a right winger mole

This site is full of them.

When they get banned, they brag about it elsewhere.

[Skinner]

3. If someone said it on the Internet, then it must be true.

Respectfully, I'm not going to let some morons on other websites influence the way we run DU. Let 'em brag. Just as long as they spell our URL correctly.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. You reacted to my second statement, but not my first

You commented on the bragging.

You failed to comment on them being here and being disruptors. Disruptive behavior *does* impact your site.

[Skinner]

5. If you have evidence that anyone is a disruptor...

Just click Alert on one of their posts and share this evidence with the moderators so they can see it.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. That's hardly an answer . . . apart from being pro forma.

I have no access to IP addresses or the records of referring web sites, or any of the other hard evidence that one might be what others suspect them to be. You, on the other hand, do.

My evidence is "what I read on the Internets," which you already brushed aside.

See, here's another thing. I read on the very same Internets that they have even infiltrated your moderators. I know that I'm not the only one to raise that issue. I have seen it mentioned it here on DU, even though, right now, I am unable to find the thread. Maybe it got nuked.

Then there's the matter of sock puppets and zombies. Were I to get banned, I will bet nearly anything that I would be found out damned fast, just due to my style. A lot of banned posters have styles, too. For all but the most studied imposter (and I am certain there are many such wankers) we can mask our personality just so long, even on the Internets. Some people who spend a great deal of time on this site have identified the sock puppets for who they are, but even with that, none of it is "evidence" and, were I a mod, there's no way I would burn an accused sock without real, hard proof. An alert from an ordinary member like me is not proof.

IP addresses *are* reasonably good proof. Consistent referring site data is good circumstantial proof, but less reliable than IP addresses.

Unless no one is checking.

[Skinner]

7. Yeah, we've figured out how to check IP addresses. Thanks. (nt)