As devil's advocate, should harassment and hostility be considered INTP traits? I am not saying he should or should not be banned but the reason he was banned would not be for things that are typical INTP unless you are saying Jerk like behavior as a constant communication style is synonymous with INTP being a type that is automatically worse than any other type. Basically his behavior has nothing to do with his type which means he was banned for other reasons i.e. unnecessary projected anger. I had no problems with him personally but I would think that the mods understand his confrontationality on the forum better than I do. I have seen how he has acted thread to thread on occasion which may have been worse behind the scenes private messaging and all that. Unless you define INTP as being the jerk type then all I can say is I disagree on your definition. I only use the word jerk because I have seen posts he has made that feel jerkish to me and I believe INTP's are not necessarily jerks. Usually INTP's may dismiss you but I would not say they actively want to confront you. That would be a messed up unhealthy INTP.
One post I saw was when he said CherryCola was wrong because what he (bronto) said was logically sound and he was mad that Cherry could not see it. From this I can extrapolate that he hates certain people for being actively wrong on issues that are not really wrong. Once you get to the point where you must be right all the time I would say can be an INTP trait but that is only because I remember from a video that said Introverted thinking is the function that listens the least. Dario Nardi said Fi is the function that is the best listener. So speculatively: he hates certain people for being wrong on issues according to his logic. If hating people for being wrong is an INTP trait then yes he was banned for typical INTP behavior but I cannot see any other way for him to be banned because of his type because any type can get angry for other people being wrong on issues important enough for them to get upset about.
It's not inconceivable to me that he was jerky to enough people for long enough, and resisted the mods trying to curb him, that they finally said enough with you.
Pretty much this.
Animekitty gets his behavior pretty well, especially the projected anger part.
I forgot about
post 22.
That's definitely "unambiguously offensive and a moderator can step in to squash it" material. A lot of times people let these things go, but they don't have to, and it does melt the forum down when people keep doing that sort of thing.
Yeah. Bronto has had a pretty long list of offenses, and we let A LOT of those slide, because as others have said yes, he contributed meaningful things, but he was way too uncooperative. There's a limit to how many things can be allowed to "slide".
This may not be obvious to regular people, but keep in mind that mods "keep tabs" on certain problem people so they're a lot more aware of such things.
He had a tendency to be overly belligerent to people for having the "wrong opinion". There are a few things that come to mind: the conflict with redbaron, attacking zerkalo in her intro thread, attacking other people in their intro threads, getting into ridiculously charged arguments about female beauty in the "who do you find attractive" thread.
The last time he got temp banned over fighting with Sinny and pushing to get her banned, I told him in no uncertain terms, he's on thin ice, and that if his behavior keeps up he will find himself banned. With being given temp bans and so many clues, one can only guess he didn't give enough of a shit.
Any mod warning, and not only from me was met with smug self righteousness about the superiority of his opinion and accusations of petty power tripping. Not to mention all the passive aggressive posts on open forums directed at mods. Again, we ignored most of that, but there's only so much you can work with in these circumstances. There is context in visitor messages, as I already said.
As Architect and EditorOne pointed out there are plenty of ways to inform someone of their ignorance without resorting to such emotionally charged vocabulary without compromising clarity, which he protested about. For most other people, merely saying that would not be cause for a permaban, but for an uncooperative long term problem member like Bronto it can be cause enough.
