What Happened at Ace of Spades HQ? (Updated)

There was a big commenter dust-up over at the Award-winning  AoSHQ friday night. Comments are gone. Not deleted. Not turned off. Completely inaccessible. As a result I can’t see the thread to read what happened. Ace posts a hint:

Jimmah, however, has decided to set blog policy for me, and several others have decided to challenge me on the point as well.

I will have to end commenting until I can figure out how to ban them.

It takes stepping over a wide, obvious line to get Ace talking ban hammer. I’ve trolled at Ace since Late in Bush’s first term. I made it daily reading in about ’07 and I started commenting a year or two ago, usually as a snarky sock. I’ve never seen the moron nation do anything to push Ace this far.

You expect to be knifed in the front by your enemies. It’s too much to be knifed in the back as well.

Again, I realize most people understand without being told.

My mistake here is thinking some people will understand if told — no, the sort of person that doesn’t know until told also won’t know after he’s told.

Thanks for everyone who understands without being told.

For the rest, registration is coming, possibly Monday. I do not have the time or patience regarding continuing arguments about Standard Blog Policy — standard blog policy on any blog, at any time, let alone now, when I’m under siege — and I simply will not be entertaining any more arguments about it.

You can be stubborn about a lot of things, but when you get stubborn over another man’s right to make his livelhood as he believes right, and to protect himself and his family as best he knows how, you’ve gotten stubborn about the wrong thing, and the last thing.

And also, you’re a bad person with a deep psychological problem, and no, merely being “conservative” does not make up for your selfishness and arrogance. You might want to consider character-building exercises over reading about politics. Before one’s a good conservative, one ought to strive to first be a good human being.

Without the latter, the former isn’t worth shit.

If anyone can share what happened, please comment. Or send me a message through the contact form on the About page.

[Added:] @tmi3rd tweets that Jimmah:

Questioned Ace’s manhood over the Kimberlin thing, then doubled down on doubling down. #acedark

@Polliwogette adds:

Ace had been warning people from the previous thread and I guess a couple just couldn’t stop.

[Added II:] Follow:

[Added III:] Jeff has the skinny posted in The Empire:

So, yesterday was the Great American Blog-Out in support of all the victims of Brett Kimberlin’s legal harassment of his critics, and the extra-legal (and illegal) harassment and threats made by his followers.  Specifically, SWATting.

So, Ace put up his post here.  Well written, impassioned and sad, because in the comments, Ace revealed that he would not be accepting the Breitbart award, due to concerns over his physical safety.  He was unnecessarily hard on himself, as usual, and as usual, most of us tried to buck him up with humor.

And then some commenters lost their fucking minds and started writing these types of comments:

“Pussy.  I’d have gone because I ain’t a-skeered of no man.”

And it went downhill fast from there. Read the whole thing.

[Added IV:] In the meanwhile, there’s a mirror site allowing comments, here.

[Added V:] It seems, for the moment, that Ace is allowing comments on threads… apparently pending a registration system.

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