most of you do not know the history of this user, so I'll clue you all in:

steev was perma'd some years ago due to threats of violence against people, he was reinstated after a year or so of being banned due to him having friends here in the server who advocated on his behalf. When he rejoined he slowly started posting dumb poo poo and over time we asked him not to (the rule against reddit links is because he'd spam reddit links). He then kept saying poo poo like "American moment" anytime guns or whatever could be brought up and generally speaking took the opportunity to troll rather than engage and learn something.

During this time other users began to revile him and probably 50% of our active users had him personally blocked due to his various behavior over the years. I continued to tolerate him due to a couple of high profile friends of his and because I did appreciate his takes on gaming for example. So a half measure was struck to ban him from #off-topic #world-news and go from there. But he eventually found out, part of his arrangement to not be banned was to quit posting/talking about the US political situation because he was very underinformed about it and it usually amounted to troll posts. He didn't honor it today and thus he was banned.
realistically he should have stayed banned those years ago because his commentary was very much beyond the pale
(he threatened to kill black people and said he wanted to go around punching asians)

steev always struck me as someone who was largely apolitical. I remember him talking passionately about linux and mobile technology like laptops and tablets. I don't remember him discussing politics. It's a shame that he has hatred in his heart.

Who's steev?

most of you do not know the history of this user, so I'll clue you all in:

steev was perma'd some years ago due to threats of violence against people, he was reinstated after a year or so of being banned due to him having friends here in the server who advocated on his behalf. When he rejoined he slowly started posting dumb poo poo and over time we asked him not to (the rule against reddit links is because he'd spam reddit links). He then kept saying poo poo like "American moment" anytime guns or whatever could be brought up and generally speaking took the opportunity to troll rather than engage and learn something.

During this time other users began to revile him and probably 50% of our active users had him personally blocked due to his various behavior over the years. I continued to tolerate him due to a couple of high profile friends of his and because I did appreciate his takes on gaming for example. So a half measure was struck to ban him from #off-topic #world-news and go from there. But he eventually found out, part of his arrangement to not be banned was to quit posting/talking about the US political situation because he was very underinformed about it and it usually amounted to troll posts. He didn't honor it today and thus he was banned.
realistically he should have stayed banned those years ago because his commentary was very much beyond the pale
(he threatened to kill black people and said he wanted to go around punching asians)

Portuguese moment

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steev always struck me as someone who was largely apolitical. I remember him talking passionately about linux and mobile technology like laptops and tablets. I don't remember him discussing politics. It's a shame that he has hatred in his heart.

This is exactly what I remember of him he had the same love I have for the raspberry pi. I was wondering what happened to him. I wasn't here to see his political posts but with seeing it first hand with others, I think his hatred was some what compounded by what I saw as an abuse of alcohol. All the 40z of coors lite posts drunk posting etc... People can become inclined to unnecessary reactionary hate under the influence of it imo.

I can't tell which posts are serious and which ones are not. Is steev really a hatemonger or is there an inside joke that is going over my head? I didn't know he was a heavy drinker.

Whatever the case, I hope steev is doing well. He was positive and upbeat when I was a regular poster here so that's the kind of person I choose to remember him as.

I can't tell which posts are serious and which ones are not. Is steev really a hatemonger or is there an inside joke that is going over my head? I didn't know he was a heavy drinker.

Whatever the case, I hope steev is doing well. He was positive and upbeat when I was a regular poster here so that's the kind of person I choose to remember him as.

Steev just got arrested

welp

The steev you knew and loved is dead. Because you killed him

I can't tell which posts are serious and which ones are not. Is steev really a hatemonger or is there an inside joke that is going over my head? I didn't know he was a heavy drinker.

Whatever the case, I hope steev is doing well. He was positive and upbeat when I was a regular poster here so that's the kind of person I choose to remember him as.

same