It’s more than a little unusual for me to delete whole threads like this, but the kind of insensitivity, and hero-worship of school shooters shown here is a completely unacceptable use of the TSL Forums. Paired with trolling and personal attacks, the result has been a totally inflammatory and inappropriate thread. Disciplinary action will be taken by customer support.

My personal thanks to those of you who stood up for good taste and chose to show your humanity in the face of deeply callous comments by condemning them.

Blue Linden posted this after wiping out almost the entirety of the thread entitled “Virginia Tech Memorial (School shootings).” I can’t say I’m suprised - there were comments on how people didn’t care, how people had attempted suicide, why the people shot were to blame and the shooter was the real victim, etc. Yleri Tokhes, who was one of the “I don’t care, this means nothing” people, has already vanished from search - since he said he had already been suspended before, I strongly suspect he’s been banned. I also suspect that Jay Clostermann, who had by far the worst posts there, will be on the receiving end of some action.

Sigh…