Why I banned “ShadowFox”
Yes, I did ban the anonymous coward who calls himself “ShadowFox” from Project Petaling Street (he is the only one banned from PPS, by the way) and make no apologies for doing so. I personally do not feel that he is an individual who will give a meaningful contribution to the overall change that I have planned for PPS, which is epitomised in the tagline “the face of the Malaysian blogosphere”. Honestly, do you want this anonymous, pompous, rude, idiotic, hypocritical, coarse and uncivilised scumbag to represent “the face” of the local blogosphere and Malaysia in general?
That, plus the fact that when I acquired PPS, I found out by serendipity that this anonymous person, just like everyone else, left a trail of IPs that would lead back to him. There is a chokeful of “ShadowFox’s” IPs embedded in the database. I checked his blog just now and he has kindly “provided” the URLs to the blog posts which will be the basis of a police report that I will be making against him (and this, I have been itching to do so for months). And I have printed those blog posts out in full colour, so now he cannot escape from the evidence either.
I have to thank the fella for being so dumb as to incriminate himself openly. Now that I have everything I need to make a police report, I am sure the police will take a keen interest in him. A very, very keen interest, indeed.
P.S. I found out that even Singaporean bloggers dislike this person and want him banned. I don’t know why Malaysians are giving me flak over something which even Singaporeans can agree with me. I am standing by my decision to ban this person forever.
Banning someone because you have a personal vendetta against him is not a really smart move bro.
I’m not trying to back Shadowfox or anybody but you should have at least let the readers decide who gets banned and who doesn’t. Create flag system like Blogger, Sarawho or Blogged.my you know, practice some democracy. I know you own the site now and you have all the power and everything but just because PPS is popular today doesn’t mean it will always be popular forever. FYI there’s a dozen other alternatives to PPS. Maybe today you don’t like Shadowfox, who knows tomorrow you don’t like somebody else will he or she gets banned as well?
Just my 2 cents.
[MENJ: I have plans for PPS and lets just say "ShadowFox" is not part of the equation.]
Comment by Afif — March 22, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
Agree with the commentor. I don't think you're wise in making this decision. PPS is quite famous nowadays and everyone knows it. btw, I am a PPS member too.
[MENJ: I understand your concerns but this is the only person that I will ban from PPS. Why are you protecting a criminal who has been reported to the police?]
Comment by ahmike — March 24, 2009 @ 6:53 am
I'm not sure why you are banning him exactly… But this shadowfox guy is a bigot and brings all his hate messages everywhere he goes.
Good job
Comment by Priss — March 22, 2011 @ 8:11 am