I mean this one: https://history.stackexchange.com/users/2501/shantanu-shinde
UPDATE:
I am afraid nothing has been accomplished in this discussion so far. Shantanu Shinde is presumably just a kid but that doesn't give him, in my opinion, license to infect this site with Nazi rants. If anyone can think of a constructive way of engaging with him that will effect the removal of his Nazi propaganda, hat off to them. If not, I think I'll email [email protected] and see what their reaction is.
Email [email protected] or flag one of their posts noting the profile.
The Overlord wrote up an answer also that more describes the why:
Our general approach has been to take a hands-off approach to the user page -- it's for you to place whatever you want there, within reason. Obviously racism, hate speech, any sort of overt evil will not be tolerated. But there is more flexibility in the grey areas on the user page, because it's about the user, not us.
We have much stricter rules about what content can appear on our question pages, we expect a modicum of professionalism throughout -- but the user page belongs to the user. Whatever content is there in the "about me" section reflects directly on that user, not us. And I don't think any reasonable website visitor would expect otherwise.
(In other words, if someone has an intentionally stupid Teh Facebooks profile, that doesn't make Teh Facebooks look stupid to most folks.)
In this case, its clearly racist. You can take either approach noted in the first quote. Both mods and SE employees have the power to change about me's.
I'm Tim Post, a community manager for Stack Exchange, I'd like to respond to this and appreciate you bringing it up.
No one gets to infect a site with rants of any kind, Nazi or otherwise. Similarly, one doesn't have the right to proselytize their political views, religion, phobias or hate in a manner that disrupts the purpose of the site. That falls under our golden rule of basically not being a jerk. If your behavior, however passive is causing a disruption, that behavior needs to stop.
I've examined this user's profile at least a dozen times, reading it from beginning to end as many. For the sake of discussion, let's ignore the fact that the person that wrote this profile indicated that they were 13 years old. On the Internet, no one knows that ... well, you get the gist.
Please read the rest in its entirety before reacting.
The first set of questions I asked was, what does this profile not do?
It does not use profanity or vulgarity, though many will associate certain words it contains with vulgar people or ideas.
It does not directly attack any individual based on on their religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or anything else. It does, however state that certain religions are inferior. While he may have insulted the institution of several religions, he's not directly insulting anyone for simply belonging to them.
I'm putting my personal beliefs and feelings aside while writing this, as a Stack Exchange community manager it is my job to be completely objective in such evaluations, even at the cost of being wildly unpopular for doing so. This was a difficult decision to make.
At the end of the day, it's the reception of the text that creates needless angst and disruptions within the community. This isn't the first time we've been contacted regarding the text and we only alter a user's profile when we feel that interceding is absolutely necessary. Any technicality one could raise does not alter the fact that the intent of the writing was to be deliberately hurtful or hateful, even just from the vantage point of the offended.
Note, not all of the text was removed, only the portion that I found to be the most egregious and deliberately offensive to people of certain religions.
I'm taking a much stronger freedom-of-speech view on this. I don't care how heinous the person's advertized views are, he's free to state them as long as they aren't done in offensive tone.
If they post crappy subjective questions, downvote/VTC/delete those (which is what we as a community successfully did).
Since his return from suspension, Shantanu Shinde is sporting the Nazi swastika as his "avatar". Use of the Nazi swastika is outlawed except for scholarly purposes in several jurisdictions, notably Germany. It is my understanding that Stack Exchange, were it to allow its use in this manner, could expose itself to all manner of legal trouble, including -- worst case -- criminal prosecution for its officials in Germany. (Note that religious imagery including versions of the Hindu swastika is not affected by these prohibitions.)
Judging from the trail of content left behind by that user, I think they may be due for little mod reminder that community quality standards matter and perhaps and suspension for "low quality posts over time". As long as their questions show so little research effort and no attempt to play by the site rules, there is no point in confronting them them on social, political or other mistakes they may be making.
Deal with the issue you can deal with easily and already have rules about. If you get through that with any success it will be much easier to deal with the next issue. If after the measures above, this user exhibit any inclination to constructively contribute according to site policy, then one might open the issue of what might be considered inappropriate profile content.
Either way their current content should be due for community deletion. I don't have the rep or I'd vote, but that isn't "fixable" stuff that needs to be given benefit of the doubt. You've already closed it.
Once the user comes back from suspension if they choose to contribute constructively great. If they keep going with the same things, they are just trolling and there are already other solutions in place for dealing with troll accounts.
I'll go on the record as stating I'm pretty much of the opinion expressed by DVK above. The history nut in me can't help but notice that this may have something to do with the fact that we are both Americans, as this attitude towards speech is pretty much "in the water" over here. I can't speak for the other H.SE mods, but I can note that they are both Americans as well (in fact, all three of us live at nearly the same longitude), so they aren't likely to feel tremendously differently.
I understand there are many countries, particularly in Europe, where Nazi views are considered special, and so dangerous that they need to be suppressed for the public good. If you happen to be of that opinion, then the best advice I can give at this time is that when we finally open up and do mod elections, perhaps you might want to vote for non-Americans.
