That matters little S57, even if they ban Trixie, the underlining phenomena of people posting with schitzophrenia and sexual issues, as well as being a general annoyance, will only increase over time. It isn't legitimate to base one person's sanity or ability to post respectably off of one nameless mod thinking to themselves in the shadows. Hardly a authority worth considering. What is the authority worth considering is philosophy itself. We don't ban or cover up people. Diogenes did far worst in his career than Trixie ever could, joining into wrestling games and masturbating, spiting into people's face before a debate. Both my religion (Christianity) and my philosophy (Stoicism) have been pointedly listed as deeply influenced by Cynic philosophy. Had some omnipotent asshole moderator existed capable of dragging the Nothoi out of stadium debates, or picking up Athenians and throwing them far, far away due to any given perspective of what philosophy should be, or perceived slight, philosophy today would be much reduced, retarded and less intelligent than it is even today.
Despite the vulgar motivations of the mods here (truely dispictable) a important insight I didn't fully possess arrived by the way of Plato's Rock in another thread.... it has had me thinking for a while. He noticed Trixie (also a Schitzophrenic, but also a heck of a lot of other things) was in a similar "phase" we can call it, as he once was, in adopting the personas of comic book characters.
I kinda noticed this in the past, as "Taz/Impenitant (not the Impenitant here apparently) is even a comic book artist, and even admitted to self castration once. I took him as a unique case, as I wasn't sufficiently aware of the mental patterns of the syndrome years ago on Nietzscheforum, only had a handful of cases, none as extreme as that "artist", and wrote the art off given his attachment to Nietzsche (for the record, I am Anti-Nietzschean, but never care about the ones merely obsessed with art, and use random quotes by him to make them feel intellectual and special, I'm more concerned with the psychopathic, genocidal variant).
Several since then, including I suppose you could say the Joker on philosophy forums we are all for the most part know (not Trixie) is attacked to this cartoonish stage of thinking. I don't believe Joker is a schitzophrenic, but he clearly has some irrational issues that may functionally overlap with the disorder. It is a comparison I'm holding for the future in case I have the misfortune of meeting more guys like the Joker, might offer a better insight to the divergency of this play.
A lot of people exhibit this drive to a imaginary persona, most often borrowed. We all had it in our youth, at a stage. I'm not certain if it forever sticks around, being a Freudian retention of a stage of development due to factors X or Y, or if it resurfaces later on. I really don't know.
What I do know is, if the moderators on several philosophy sites had their way, Trixie and others like him never would of posted, I never would of started countering the most obvious negative aspects of the thinking and peering deeper, and I never would of had Plato's Rock's important insight seeing the dynamics from a unique perspective. Perhaps this could of been arrived at years earlier.
My immediate guess to start digging is the direct path of the basal ganglia. I'm gonna have to track down some papers that touch on this, if any exist, and figure out what is going on.
Philosophy doesn't advance on the clarity of moderators, but the fierceness of it's combat, and eagerness to make sense of the chaos. When we went through eras of tranquility and agreement, very little in the way of new ideas emerged. It isn't a pleasant experience, nor will it much match up with the mere play of the academics making speeches or having safe debates, certain not to resolve any long standing topic. Progress comes from that nether region of the heart and mind, the unexpected, struggling to emerge. No one man or school can claim to understand it all, and the threat of etiquette and order against thinkers is a declaration of war against philosophy itself. It is the holy duty of each man who loved god and free thought to resist against such unwelcomed incursions. Trixie is most welcomed in any place claiming to be a place of philosophical thought. We have a lot to learn from him.
And to the other poster, clearly the commonwealth states aren't as committed to free speech as the US is, this is a undeniable fact, we had to go so far as to change our laws so as to heavily restrict scrondrels from these nations from pressing frivolous lawsuits against free speech in the US. We've made in recent years free speech protections, while they have declined, turning away from such concerns, preferring to go the way of Europe and China in suppressing freedom of expression. This is a recent Italian case, only survived by a thin as fuck technicality, something easy to work around.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12 ... ot-guilty/
They choose to regress in the face of philosophy, to turn away shamefully from the light of the enlightenment that once burned brightly in their civilization. We are witnessing the swan call of western civilization in Europe, as it increases ever brighter in other quarters. The are increasingly net importers not just of people to make up for all those who have died through abortions and liberal policies, but also of ideas, and they don't know which ones to accept and reject at this point. Take a higher degree of rationality and public discourse than they can tolerate.
A philosophy website should never be based in such places, it is inherently unethical, as it retards the freedom of speech, of political and self examination, and so closes avenues for survival. Increases the chances for political and biological harm, not to mention the long term risk of extinction. Look at censorship prone atheistic Sweden.... soon to be 30 Islam, from a population that strongly supported ISIS. Do you think the backwards, weak of thought Athiests in that country have a damn chance of surviving long term, short of conversion? They don't, they are a utterly fucked society. It would be greatly advised that philosophy shun establishing itself under the restrictions of such states, and seek out instead maximum freedom of thought. The light of England and it's former empire has dimmed, and I know of not one place on that distant continent safe from falling to the wrath of the suicidal liberal. You seek out the best, not the worst. That is the wisest course of action.