He brought up in the "What Are You Watching" thread that gay pride material kept coming up in his unrelated searches about wrestling. He facetiously called it "rainbow propaganda" iirc. Later down the line he made an offhand jab at grindy's expense and got into an argument with Bat. He was banned for 'homophobia'.

Six months. I hear he's going to go hook up with Chula to kill the time.

Interesting recap

He was also banned for "antisemitism" and "breaking the rules" and "doubling down after being warned."

I'd like to see the (probably deleted) evidence of that first one, if you don't mind.

As for the second two- c'mon. You pull that **** up whenever it's convenient. If you actually followed the rule of anti-"rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks, trolling, or purposeless inflammatory posts", half the ****ers on this forum would be banned in a heartbeat. It's interesting how we quickly forget the constant jabs that were directed at Merit especially against his family, which the mods seemed to just skate over when they occurred.

I get why you do so- you find it funny cause you've never liked the guy and taking the piss out of him is basically a past-time. But be ****ing honest when you take actions like this: you were always looking for a chance to get rid of him.

Every single member, actually. And the mods would have to ban one another in a round-robin circle-ban-jerk.

You wouldn't be saying this had you seen the post that got him banned.

Nah, I think I would. The point still stands on how the mods sit idly by when someone they don't like gets railed by personal attacks, but when those people turn around and do the same thing back they get warned/banned. It's just annoying to see mods with evident bias claiming their actions to be based wholly in virtue and rule.

But I'm not defending Merit on the supposedly ****ed up things he said. Like I said, I'd like to see the evidence of it because seeing as it's all been purged. Most of what I saw was him parroting the "keep it to yourself" way of thinking, which a lot of people with traditionalist values hold. Sure it's partially based in homophobia, but it's not inherently oppressing anyone as many of these same people will actively support the right to express these very things. I don't think he was even treating the original issue of his MMA search getting invaded by pride material. He just saw it as wacky, like many traditionalists would. I can hear Batlord a mile off that even an observation such as that is rampant homophobia, but if you just take a step back for a second, you'll see it's not really as flagrantly evil as you may think.

Personally as a Jew to whom Merit has acted amicably towards in the past, I'd like to see the glaring anti-Semitism that was supposedly bad enough to get him banned.

I cant believe how much you guys beg for harsher enforcement of rules when 4 years ago everyone was complaining that mods were too strict.

I wasn't around 4 years ago so idk how it was then. I'm just speaking in the now.

His post was blatantly homophobic. I'm glad he got banned for it. That's all I'm saying on this now. I'm surprised this is even a debate. He crossed a line. He deserves it. If you didnt see it, be happy you didnt.