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Posted 2004-07-27, 11:16 PM in reply to Thanatos's post starting "Raziel, and you know this for a fact? ..."
Thanatos, it's a matter of logic. Let's take the situation apart piece by piece, shall we?

1. Grav has been banned an unbelievable number of times for this exact same shit. It has happened countless times over the course of two years. With that in mind, he was absolutely, 100% aware that his actions would earn him a ban.

2. He chose to openly flame and attack Sov in forums outside of the FF. He knew that this would garner him a ban, yet he did it anyway. The fact is, if he honestly wanted his arguments to be heard, he would have posted them in such a manner that the staff wouldn't have had any reasonable excuse for banning him. He didn't have to flame Sov to get his point across, and the fact is, if he had chosen not to flame Sov, he would still be here and his arguments would be having a much greater impact than they are right now.

3) Grav is not a stupid person. I absolutely refuse to believe that he was genuinely under the impression that he could create three entirely separate flame threads in forums other than the FF and not recieve any sort of punishment for it. He's been through this with the staff two million times already.

So, let's take all of those facts and really think about them for a second, okay? He consciously chose to act in a manner that he knew would get himself banned. That much is a given. He consciously chose not to present his arguments against Sov in a non-offensive manner which has done a great amount of damage to his arguments. If he was honestly that invested in the radical changes he's preaching about, he would have more actively sought to present those arguments in a fashion that could not be ignored or dismissed. Flaming someone is the easiest way to have your arguments thrown out the window. That right there shows signs that he's not as invested in this whole "revolution" as the rest of you think he is. Finally, Grav is not a stupid individual, meaning that he knew exactly what was going to happen the moment he chose to act.

Conclusion? He did this on purpose. To come to any other conclusion is to assume that he's an idiot, and I respect the guy too much to even think about assuming that.
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