OK, there appears to be a majority concensus among Mods that William has trolled for the umpteenth time and must be banned for a month - which is what I have done(31 days).
Reasons for the ban:-
1) Constant persistent trolling. Constant promotion of anti-rawpalaeo foods such as pemmican and ghee, particularly when made outside the Hot Topics forum. We have had a policy on this forum that we are here to support the raw, palaeolithic community. We are not here to support raw vegan diets, cooked zero-carb diets including pemmican/ghee, nor SAD diets or whatever. There is a leeway in that we do recognise that some are only partially raw due to social restrictions on diet re jobs/family etc. so might need info on less harsher methods of cooking etc. etc., and we also recognise that some raw zero-carbers travel and therefore sometimes need pemmican as a poor substitute for healthy raw grassfed meats they can't find during their trip. But constant, endless promotion/propagandising of non-RPD foods(along with frequent derailment of non-related threads), whether touting for raw vegan diets or pemmican or whatever is not acceptable. The primary reason why people turn to this forum is because they want rawpalaeo info that is not available anywhere else. The few members who want to, can happily read stuff about the supposed health-benefits of pemmican or ghee or Big Macs or whatever on countless other non-raw forums . Here , however, is one of the very, very few forums devoted to raw, palaeolithic diets, and has to be protected from trolling.
2) Mindless negative remarks about "carb-eaters" being moody, or derisively calling them "Neolithic" implying they are not true "palaeos". This from a man who admits to eating grainfed, Neolithic meats! We have a wide community of Rawpalaeos with Instinctos at one end (more or less) and raw, zero-carbers at the other.While it is understandable for those who've failed on raw zero-carb or raw omnivore and had to turn to some raw carbs or no carbs depending, to occasionally mention their lack of success on a particular type of rawpalaeodiet or to perhaps sometimes suggest that 1 rawpalaeo regime likely doesn't work, it is expected for people not to constantly attack other kinds of rawpalaeos for their dietary approach.
3) A number of past online criticisms of William's trollish behaviour plus some private PMs to me from rather concerned members who did not appreciate William's frequent blatant attempts at disruption.
As for William's more personal comments re me and that deleted post:-
Racism(for, incidentally, stating that settled civilisation in general contributed more to Mankind re technology etc. than hunter-gatherers)? This from William who has linked to anti-semitic sites on this and another paleo forum!
Plus, I have already previously cited scientific studies showing the damage caused by oxidised cholesterol in tallow. William has pretty much only provided dodgy anecdotal claims about pemmican from the likes of DelFuego(which are contrasted with the decidedly negative experiences of many RVAFers as regards pemmican).
But the scientific evidence is really beside the point. I have seen a huge amount of decidedly excellent-looking scientific evidence provided by raw vegans , SAD-eaters, cooked-low-carb-dieters etc. to justify their diets, just as I have found extensive, very convincing scientific evidence for a raw, palaeolithic diet. But, overall, the field of food-science is so new, with so much left still to be researched, that it's not possible for a totally objective, scientifically-literate person to to be remotely 100% sure which diet is the right one. In the end, what it comes down to is this:- this is a forum for raw, palaeolithic diets, not a forum for raw vegan diets or cooked-low-carb diets etc., so that forum rules necessarily frown on posting about non-RPD foods outside the Hot Topics forum. If we don't stick to the subject, we might as well rename rawpaleoforum as the "eat-anything-diet-forum".
