Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
I consider Eric C. and 14Russian are to be trolls that should have been banned a long time ago since their only purpose on this forum is to bad mouth Russia, whinge about the USSR and generally spread unpleasant atmosphere and contempt for Russia at this forum. Do such people belong in a forum about Russia and the Russian language? I have never once seen a positive comment about Russia from either these two.

It is one thing to take the view they take in a general history forum or political forum, where everybody's worldview is equally valid. But this is a forum about Russia.
So what the hell is the point of hanging here every day and telling anyone who visits the site, what a useless and evil country Russia is, and was.

It smells to me of a fixation / mental illness, paid or unpaid activism and sabotage. How can this be tolerated?

Their behaviour is akin to spending years on a cooking forum and telling everybody how useless, boring and meaningless cooking is, or in a Christian forum, telling everybody that God is dead and Jesus is fake.
If a person's intention is to simply complain and badmouth the focus of the forum, then such a person eventually gets banned.

They certainly managed to put off almost all native Russian speakers from the political forum. I am still not interested in participating in that forum regularly because they singlehandedly lower the quality of the forum.

The ban on the Ukraine topics was the last straw for me. It's almost impossible to discuss anything political relating to Russia's foreign policy without mentioning Ukraine, so I see no point in particiating like I did before.

i think this ban should be revised and individual users who can't debate politely with restraint be banned instead. Some Russians went over the top when debating Ukraine, but is that really serious enough that nobody else can dicuss the topic?

And another thing: User Ninamasji is the same as previously banned user Krupskaya and another older user I don't remember the name of.
Too much text to read.
But if these two recieve a Lampadas banhammer - put me behind bars as well

"But this is a forum about Russia" - I thought that forum is about russian language.
No one is obliged to speak in patriotic manner.

Many europeans \ americans here have many illusions about Russia.
I`m feeling a duty to disprove them.