All of those things sound like they would be fairly difficult for William and probably anyone else in the A.V. Club to do.

Sure, he eventually gets banned (at which point he immediately moves on to another barely-distinguishable incarnation), but it takes weeks of reporting their comments before anything happens. In the meantime, black people get called stupid N-words and teenage rape victims get called cunts in comment after comment…

Have a look at this 2019 New Yorker article on Dershowitz: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/alan-dershowitz-devils-advocate (archive: http://archive.is/ANWgj)

Hey Stephen, are you or anyone else in the A.V. Club (or Kinja generally) ever going to do anything about the deranged troll who’s been harassing another user by taking his name and spreading vicious racism and misogyny on thread after thread for months, maybe years now? Or are you going to sit around with your thumb…

Hey Reid, are you or anyone else in the A.V. Club (or Kinja generally) ever going to do anything about the deranged troll who’s been harassing another user by taking his name and spreading vicious racism and misogyny on thread after thread for months, maybe years now? Or are you going to sit around with your thumb up…

Hey Marah, are you or anyone else in the A.V. Club (or Kinja generally) ever going to do anything about the deranged troll who’s been harassing another user by taking his name and spreading vicious racism and misogyny on thread after thread for months, maybe years now? Or are you going to sit around with your thumb up…

Hey Danette, are you or anyone else in the A.V. Club (or Kinja generally) ever going to do anything about the deranged troll who’s been harassing another user by taking his name and spreading vicious racism and misogyny on thread after thread for months, maybe years now? Or are you going to sit around with your thumb…

Hey Ignatiy, are you or anyone else in the A.V. Club (or Kinja generally) ever going to do anything about the deranged troll who’s been harassing another user by taking his name and spreading vicious racism and misogyny on thread after thread for months, maybe years now? Or are you going to sit around with your thumb…

Hey Katie, are you or anyone else in the A.V. Club (or Kinja generally) ever going to do anything about the deranged troll who’s been harassing another user by taking his name and spreading vicious racism and misogyny on thread after thread for months, maybe years now? Or are you going to sit around with your thumb up…

Hey Shannon, are you or anyone else in the A.V. Club (or Kinja generally) ever going to do anything about the deranged troll who’s been harassing another user by taking his name and spreading vicious racism and misogyny on thread after thread for months, maybe years now? Or are you going to sit around with your thumb…

Hey Allison, are you or anyone else in the A.V. Club (or Kinja generally) ever going to do anything about the deranged troll who’s been harassing another user by taking his name and spreading vicious racism and misogyny on thread after thread for months, maybe years now? Or are you going to sit around with your thumb…

Hey Alex, are you or anyone else in the A.V. Club (or Kinja generally) ever going to do anything about the deranged troll who’s been harassing another user by taking his name and spreading vicious racism and misogyny on thread after thread for months, maybe years now? Or are you going to sit around with your thumb up…

Hey William, are you or anyone else in the A.V. Club (or Kinja generally) ever going to do anything about the deranged troll who’s been harassing another user by taking his name and spreading vicious racism and misogyny on thread after thread for months, maybe years now? Or are you going to sit around with your thumb…

Is it too old-fashioned to ask that we not speak ill of the dead?

The civil war was 150 years ago (nice round number) it deserves to be a footnote rather than the entire story. Everyone that wants us to define our lives by the worst mistakes in history just wants power today.

I was taught all these things in Texas in the 90s ya wanker.

Uh, if there’s one thing you definitely can’t accuse the first half of the 20th century of, it’s being unwilling to make cartoon versions of non-white people.

Selling Sunset’s astronomical popularity feels like fate

I was lightheartedly quoting the movie. But you decided to double down on being a joyless prick.

Sir, it appears you are no better a judge of human beings than you are a specimen of one.