Whiskey was never a troll. He is in fact in the linkroll. The problem with Whiskey was twofold. He was enough of a part of the community to “speak for it” in a way that a troll, who is an outsider, does not. The second difficulty was that I think he was offending other long standing members of the community. The Whiskey problem was in the nature of handling an internal conflict to the Belmont Club.

It was unacceptable to ask him to censor himself. So the onus fell to me to choose; and I chose as best as I could. I don’t believe anybody who wrote to me complaining of Whiskey should be blamed. People can complain any time they like and not feel sorry for it. The responsibility for the loss is mine. That doesn’t solve anything, but there it is.

About all I can say is that people are welcome to visit Whiskey’s site and indeed they should. He is probably better served in that forum than here, where for good or ill, the responsibility for content is mine.

Though they are not strictly comparable, the present troll sneeringly refers to the “little posts” that are on this site and yet relies on the audience of these “little posts” to advance his cheesy arguments. So in memory of Whiskey, I’ll ban the troll and he can advance his grant arguments on a site of his own, where I am sure he will attract an audience worthy of his mettle.