Speaking of rifts, I just noticed that pablodefleurs is gone. What happened?
I tried searching for his most recent posts, but no luck.
I asked him to discontinue posting fantasy scenarios under which the President of the United States would be assassinated. Instead of understanding and complying, he chose to delete his account.
There is a history with that guy, for anyone who doesn't know. He was banned 3 or 4 times at powerline, and kept coming back with new usernames, and every time, he escalated until he'd get banned again. Same thing at CT, banned once, was allowed back, and I've no doubt he'd have been banned again. At IAF, I had to ask him a couple times to cool it, and each time he did, he'd escalate again a short time later.
Now it seems as if he believed that a new forum without the proboards ToS was going to be a license to threaten violence and fantasize about the death of the President again. I asked him to stop, hoping he would, and would stay. Apparently he feels the need to find a place where he can make his threats, and apparently I made my point that is was not going to be here.
The guy is a walking contradiction, and wound up tight as a spring. Jesus oozing out his ears on the one hand, total lack of boundaries and self-control on the other. I wish him the best, and I seriously hope he doesn't lose it.