where we draw the line

You are right to point out that BC, like all sites, has limits to what people are allowed to say. We are supposed to keep it on topic and we are especially urged to take hot button issues to OtherChat with the motto Argue with idiots! This is not to say that hot button issues are completely disallowed from BC, since anything is allowed within reason. Posters such as kit and Pharmakon show how even the most hot button issues are allowed to be discussed on the BC main index, as long as they make the connection to boys and boylovers clear. Even Sharpshooters commie fake distraction as you called it, belonged, because it was obviously a sarcastic cultural commentary on how the media works with militaristic factions within the government to portray boylovers as "sex predators" deserving of violent detention. BC is a very lightly moderated website, allowing almost anything to fly. This is not to say that BC is like that forever. If you could make your case as to why coony's leash should be shortened, maybe if a few other people spoke up to agree that would persuade not only the cogs, but more importantly coony himself that his incoherent ramblings aren't welcome here any more. Two or three nattering naybobs of negativism come to mind immediately as the ones who might cosign your intolerance. Only time will tell if you haters will get organized enough to influence how BC is run, but it isn't likely, since naturally the haters all tend to be the least likely to be able to cooperate on anything. The truth is that when looked at in their entyrety coony's post are not incoherent ramblings. Some of his post have a back and forth pattern where he seems to be talking to himself, out loud. But what is he saying to himself??? What could it all mean? Maybe it means coony is going through something irl. Maybe he's reacting to the massive drop off in BC participation to where it some nights you literally are talking to an echoing empty room. He's like the last Bison who grew up on the plains in a flock of millions who comes back late in life to visit "Bison Park" a small sanctuary with empty mowed pastures. Does an old bison not have the right to moo sadly in an empty field? He's being creative. He's describing what it feels like to be an institutionalized boylover and he's way more interesting to read than you are. Which is not to say that your contributions are worthless. You have a lot to say and a pithy way of saying it. Your complaints and rants are part of what makes BC BC. Feel free to respond to any of the posts that you don't like and let them know that you don't like it, as you have been doing. Nothing wrong with that. It's when you try to speak for the group and call the cogs in to back your intolerance up that it becomes necessary to remind you that you still have some work to do before that's going to happen.