It is ironic that it is you who is responding to this.
I'm sure you believe that is the case. Many posters seem to believe that I operate under a different set of rules as everyone else. In one version that should have greater strictures on what I say because I'm a moderator and in another that I apparently never come under sanction and thus have an unlimited ability to speak. Neither are true (in truth, I personally have an active infraction and a warning as I type this, and in both instances I acknowledged I deserved as much) and the accusation is universally self-serving to the accuser.
The point is Trout is the libtard version of Sloanfeld in how he acts on this forum, but most of the mods make excuses and exceptions for their assbook friend.
Trout has been suspended multiple times and was previously banned on the old board. To say that Trout acts with impunity and that the mods "make excuses and exceptions" is simply inaccurate.
I know that you are unaware as to Trout's exact warning and infraction status at any given time, but I feel extremely confident saying that this is an instance (like many) in which you are speaking from ignorance.
As to the assertion that there is some difference between how Trout and sloanfeld are treated because Trout is a "libtard":
1) Most of the moderating staff are conservative.
2) Trout isn't exactly a super-liberal guy.
3) Those distinctions have never come up, literally not a single time, in any moderating discussion.
4) In fact, some of all of the moderators (including myself) are annoyed with Trout's various antics at any given time.
Trout has become annoyingly proficient at walking the line and whenever he gets close to banishment he cools down for a few months until some of his infractions roll off. All the people who get banned are unable to do the same. There were (to my knowledge) exactly two instances in which posters who were banned had a legitimate return on the old board through a prolonged negotiation with Jason. In one of those instances the poster was subsequently rebanned, the other was Trout who at this point would be back anyway after the general amnesty of Summer 2010.
