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How long until Julius Bronson finds this place? There have been a few other bad actors the Motte has come across as well (e.g. vintology). Has there been any thought about how to handle them if they were to show up? Should their permabans be continued here or this a chance for everyone to have a fresh start?

Why does he strike such fear into the heart of rationalists? Just ignore him and downvote

No one fears him. The problem is that his small-dick energy compels him to obsessively troll and set up innumerable sock puppets to convince everyone how smart and superior he is, making him a persistent, annoying pest. He's disliked for the same reason every other anti-social victim of IAmVerySmart syndrome is disliked.

"Just ignore and downvote" is always offered as the solution to bad actors, and while technically this would be the correct solution if everyone did it, you can't rely on the entire community to do that, ever.

Truthfully, I thought he could be funny at times. I think most users found that he wasn't arguing in good faith (he never actually addressed specific counter arguments) and he gave a weird, negative image to the place.

I think fretting about the latter issue was silly but some seem to care (and is it unwarranted given that we are now on a diaspora from reddit?).

They fear the power of the dark side (racism)

Also Julius is far younger (16.5) and more powerful (high IQ) than the rationalists

Some say he even got every question of the WAIS correct while he was still WISC age

Yet this didn't save him from the banny janny. He could anihilate the WAIS at the age of 11, but was powerless to the software dev wagie janny's ban button. Ironic.

This is funny enough that I don't believe it's really JB's alt.

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