I don't have time for this ____.

Bishop Williamson is having a 30th Consecration anniversary in 2 days, and I'm planning to be there. And no, it's not anywhere near Texas. So I have some things to do yet (packing!)
So I don't have time for a flurry of mod reports every morning. Especially now! And even after I get back and settle in, I have to look for a new job. So even next week I won't have time to delete dozens of posts per week because Croix de Fer called someone "brothel tenant", "whore", "stalker", "cow", and many other foul names here on this fine Catholic forum. He's just not worth it.

Croix de Fer jumped the shark, and that's all there is to it. He used to have about 100 downvotes or less (vs. 2000 upvotes) -- and that was last month! But now he has more downvotes than upvotes! If that isn't "jumping the shark", I don't know what is. What happened to the guy? Pray for him.

Meanwhile, I also get a flurry of "Croix de Fer tried to smash ____", "Croix de Fer tried to smash ____" e-mails as Croix hits the 17% downvote limit on about 10+ people he can't stand here. Everyone has one or two people they don't get along with, but his "crap list" is a bit too long to claim that he fits in here.

I don't know what got into him, what changed in his life, etc. but his current incarnation is being quite disruptive to CathInfo. Insofar as one person can do so, he is coloring the forum in a major way and I DO NOT like the direction he is trying to take the forum. And a lot of members have complained and noticed.

He is acting like a rebellious, cocky teenager whose dad didn't spank him enough -- and a worldly teenager at that. Again, there is no place for such a person on a Traditional Catholic forum.

Maybe he started reading too much material from worldly, bitter non-Catholics? We must beware who we keep for company, and what we let into our hearts via the windows of the soul -- the eyes. That includes books AND videos. If you imbibe 10 hours of non-Catholic material per day, but perhaps say a Catholic rosary for 15 minutes, guess which one is going to influence you more? "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh".

I enjoyed many of his one-liners (those that we're extremely uncharitable) and also the different perspective he brought to the site, but he took his insults too far and couldn't keep a level head.  He was in "fight mode" too much.  It's a shame.

He had WAY too much of The World in him. His last posts were all about fist fights, testosterone, being tough or hard, attacking those who for WHATEVER reason didn't have the aggressiveness (or figure) of a 20 year old man who spends 2 hours a day in the gym, etc.

I 100% agree with Ladislaus on this one -- men who bluster so much are overcompensating for their own insecurity or lack of real masculinity. And what kind of "man" calls a Traditional Catholic woman foul names?

He has become/is becoming blind to vital truths touching on the Faith, especially the virtue of charity.

He values what worldly people value, and is "losing it" when it comes to the Faith.

As Ladislaus pointed out, even the issue of divorce and courts being unfair to men is a bit of a red herring, distraction, or non-issue when it comes to Trads. Because after all, 99% of men who complain about how badly the courts spanked or burdened them complain about how "I have to pay this much to my ex-wife and child support, so I barely have enough left for my new wife and children." A Catholic is not allowed to divorce/remarry and start a second family, period. If your wife is alive, you stay single. That's all there is to it. All a divorced man needs is enough to support himself. And according to Ladislaus, who knows many divorced men, even the "big bad courts" don't leave the men destitute or unable to support themselves -- in fact, they are able to start entire 2nd and even 3rd families! Again, not something a Catholic can do.

So what's the problem?  Croix doesn't even stop and think about it from the standpoint of the Faith. His head is swimming with worldly values, ideals, with a bit of the Faith thrown in. Just enough to be dangerous, I'd say.

He hangs around guys who complain about modern women, and most of them are non-Catholic. They think the courts are unfair, because these guys want to be able to "move on" and find a new spouse and start a new household, without having to support their children from their first "failed" marriage at all.

I'm not happy to see him go. He'd become a problem, but I'd rather he'd get a level head and come back.

Bishop Williamson is having a 30th Consecration anniversary in 2 days, and I'm planning to be there. And no, it's not anywhere near Texas. So I have some things to do yet (packing!)

He just had a 30th Anniversary Celebration this past weekend in Kansas, we had him for four days. I am happy that he set some time to visit the other chapels. I hope you all have as good a time as we did.

I hope everyone can see I really didn't have a choice. I can't start each day by deleting 10+ posts where Croix de Fer is calling other members foul names. And I got sick of all the reports coming in to the moderator about him and his posts. That all adds to my workload. And I'm not exactly an unemployed single guy! Far from it. I'm married with lots of children, employed, with a chapel and large property to take care of. I have better things to do.

The problem is, we all want the old "Croix de Fer" back, but that particular man doesn't exist anymore, at least not at the moment. He has transformed himself into something else much less positive -- which is the very definition of "jump the shark".

That wasn't just jumping the shark. He and that damn shark are in two different time zones, as far as I'm concerned. He went way out of line.

This is what I was noticing and, knowing that you use downvotes as a way to determine whether a member fits in here, I wondered whether you would eventually ban him.

Looking at the downvotes is more of a double-check to make sure I'm not crazy. I don't ban anyone just for having a bad upvote/downvote ratio. It is just one "quality signal" as Google calls it. 

But I look at many factors, plus I'm human so I look at intangibles as well.

A human is always going to make better judgments than any computer algorithm.

He just had a 30th Anniversary Celebration this past weekend in Kansas, we had him for four days. I am happy that he set some time to visit the other chapels. I hope you all have as good a time as we did.

Where is this going to be? NY? Not far from me, might be interested

Good riddance!  Some of his articles were interesting, but I did not appreciate being called names.  What he called me was quite mild compared with some other women.  I decided to simply not reply to anything he posted instead of down thumbing or lodging a complaint.
I think maybe his girlfriend dumped him or he got fired, perhaps unjustly, by a woman boss.
Give him time to cool off, like 6 mos.  then if makes inquiry, give him one more chance.