After enduring many months of Robert's personal and unprovoked attacks on my son Jeff, and myself, I began writing to one of the moderators about it and at first it seemed like he was doing something about it by deleting Roberts account. But somehow Robert was always able to do something no other member of Townhall who'd been "banned" can't (now, nor has ever been able to) do, come right back on using his very same screen name(s).
None of us has been able to figure out how he was able to do this when no one else can.
So, on hearing of the unique way that the moderators were able to finally get rid of another, and granted more vile poster than Robert (tr), I wrote to Chris suggesting that he get the people who'd succeeded in banning "tr" to do the same to Robert as I've had it with his constant either blatant, or just snide, thinly veiled, attacks on my son, USMC Lt.
His reply to me is pasted below.
It took months and months of my complaints to see any action against TR, and the only reason that went through was because he was so obscene so often. As much as people dislike Robert, he is rarely offensive to the degree that TR was, no question. Everyone may disagree with what he has to say and the fact that he posts as often as he does, but his actions are rarely outside the rules of TH. He isn’t inventing screen names like TR was – “F*ck You Chris the Moderator” being the straw that broke the camel’s back. By comparison, Robert is a model TH user. In reality, we know this is not true, but his assault on our users is not quite extreme enough.
Sorry I can’t help anymore, but TR was the first and only person that has ever been banned – and that was because of the most extreme circumstances that he laid out for us.
So, I have just taken the additional step of writing emails to Johnathan Garthwaite, who as far as I know is the owner/founder of Townhall and two other people who I've been lead to believe have some managerial control here at Townhall. They are Mary Katherine Ham, and Amanda Caprenter.
Pasted below is a copy of my letter to Mary Katherine.
Mary Katherine,
From watching you on The O'Reilly Factor and other TV News/Opinion shows I'm given the impression that you're one of the people in charge here at Townhall.
So, I'm sending you a copy of the complaint I just sent to Jonathan Garthwaite about a poster named "Robert" who for quite a while made multiple daily personal attacks on my son who's a regular here, and makes a point of being continually abusive to certain of your columnists.
Michelle Malkin, David Limbaugh and Ann Coulter chief among them, as well as
EVERY ONE of the regular members whom he makes posts to.
Check out his comments to Michelle Malkin in todays column, if one of the moderators hasn't deleted them yet.
What you'll see is typical of what he writes to her EVERY WEEK, and EVERY WEEK one of your moderators has to delete his comments.
Better yet, he gloats to everyone who's reported him as offensive to your moderator Chris Regal, that NOBODY CAN DO ANYTHING about what he says to the columnists and/or in the threads.
Granted, what Robert says to everyone isn't as offensive as posting messages to your moderators telling them to F.O., but it's none the less offensive to the rest of us who are here for serious discussion.
If you've noticed your readership and the number of posts dropping lately, A LARGE part of it is that we're sick of having to endure the childish antics of Robert and are starting to choose to stay away since your moderators either can't, or won't, do anything about Robert.
Since it seems obvious from the reply I got from Chris that they've never really banned Robert, I'm urging all of you who, like me, have "had it up to here" with Robert and his antics and offensive posts, like the one he made to Michelle Malkin today(which goes far beyond his usual childish remarks to her) to make it a point to write to these three people daily until they do something to rid Townhall of this childish and offensive buffoon once and for all.
Semper Fi