I'm not a huge fan of kos' heavy-handed approach to site baby-sitting and, truthfully, I don't think I see eye to eye on lots of issues with Markos. I was definitely on the opposite side from him during the pie fights, for example, and was surprised by his attitude. Lots of good writers left during that time and some didn't come back.
Now we have a week long boycott. The motivation, as I understand it, is a perception that race is somehow an issue that kos is using to single out kossacks for banning. Over the filagree for my thought on the subject.
What the fuck?
Seriously, how is that even possible when you have to dig around a bit to know anything about a kossack on this site? Are boycotters suggesting that kos went out of his way to do some checking and then ban a bunch of black kossacks? Come on people, take off the tin foil hats and think about it. Kos has admitted he was pissed and was itching to pop those who he noticed. Apparently, people thought the warning didn't apply to them and found out they were wrong. For myself, I took it as a signal to be even more careful about not being assholish -- which I believe was his point in the first place.
But racism? Really? This site is organized in such a way as to be color and gender and age blind. C'mon people.