You are being oppositional. Whether it is for reasons recreational, delusional, psychological, educational, or other is something I wonder about but do not know.
I have a friend who is bipolar (manic depressive.) I was around when he had a break that put him (voluntarily) in the psych ward taking drugs that risked doing permanent nerve damage and made his mind, he said, feel like scrambled eggs, just because he thought this gave him a better chance of ever 'coming back."
I didn't know where he was headed in the weeks before, even though his wife did. I thought SHE was crazy, until he went over the wall.
I doubt that is what is going on with you, but how would I know?
Whether it is or not, talk of banning you seems ludicrous to me.
Whether it is or not, your deliberately provoking the more fascist among us to talk of banning you seems ludicrous as well. Presumably you think you have a good reason to do this. I don't know what your reason is, and it doesn't matter whether I would agree that it is a good reason or not, I don't consider blowing raspberry's at people with fascist instincts should be a bannable "offense," it should rather be well within the bounds of conversation. IMHO.
Mwengler, please stop throwing the word "fascist" around. Will_Newsome is a contributor to a website who has recently started to annoy the other contributors and arguably to lower the quality of the community. Open discussions are being had as to whether it would be best for the community to prevent him from causing further disturbance by means of a temporary or permanent ban. This is no more repressive than what any other website does. We're not talking about banning "dissent" or "independence", we're talking about banning an...
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. Don't worry, there won't be future posts like this, so you don't have to delete my LessWrong account, and anyway I could make another, and another.
But since you've dared to read this far:
Credibility. Should you maximize it, or minimize it? Have I made an error?
Discuss.
Don't be shallow, don't just consider the obvious points. Consider that I've thought about this for many, many hours, and that you don't have any privileged information. Whence our disagreement, if one exists?