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woolybug25

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The last sentence, I think. Uncalled for personal shot.

If calling someone a dipsh!t gets you banned permanently, then there would be like 2 people left on this site (OldManMike & Dshans). So that simply wouldn't be consistent with the rest of the board. I call Wiz worse names than that on a daily basis. You get warned on something like that, not permanently banned for one comment.

There is no rule stating that you have to be well liked by the board and treat mods nicer than other posters. That's a slippery slope, imo.
 

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If calling someone a dipsh!t gets you banned permanently, then there would be like 2 people left on this site (OldManMike & Dshans). So that simply wouldn't be consistent with the rest of the board. I call Wiz worse names than that on a daily basis. You get warned on something like that, not permanently banned for one comment.

There is no rule stating that you have to be well liked by the board and treat mods nicer than other posters. That's a slippery slope, imo.

I'm Switzerland here. Not taking a stance. I was just guessing as to the reason.

ETA: There's obviously a history there as well. Not many red bars around these parts...
 

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If calling someone a dipsh!t gets you banned permanently, then there would be like 2 people left on this site (OldManMike & Dshans). So that simply wouldn't be consistent with the rest of the board. I call Wiz worse names than that on a daily basis. You get warned on something like that, not permanently banned for one comment.

There is no rule stating that you have to be well liked by the board and treat mods nicer than other posters. That's a slippery slope, imo.

The only other possibility is that he was banned for what someone thought was a dumb opinion.

Regardless, nothing I saw on this thread was worthy of banning.
 

woolybug25

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I'm Switzerland here. Not taking a stance. I was just guessing as to the reason.

Yeah, didn't mean to sound like I was accusing you. That very well may be the reason, I just don't like it.

I looked at his history (which frankly, there's not a lot) and it looks like he got most of his red from saying mean things about Tommy Rees a couple years ago. Just didn't post enough to ever change it. He's certainly not a big "value add" to the board or anything, but he's not a troll either.
 

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Wait... why did he just get banned?

Don't get me wrong, I don't really like the guy, but he didn't really do anything against the rules. Did he?

I'm curious as well.

The last sentence, I think. Uncalled for personal shot.

Did you really ban him lol. Come on.

We've all seen so much worse then this.

If calling someone a dipsh!t gets you banned permanently, then there would be like 2 people left on this site (OldManMike & Dshans). So that simply wouldn't be consistent with the rest of the board. I call Wiz worse names than that on a daily basis. You get warned on something like that, not permanently banned for one comment.

There is no rule stating that you have to be well liked by the board and treat mods nicer than other posters. That's a slippery slope, imo.

Gotta respect his spunk- came in throwing haymakers from the get-go lol
 

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If calling someone a dipsh!t gets you banned permanently, then there would be like 2 people left on this site (OldManMike & Dshans). So that simply wouldn't be consistent with the rest of the board. I call Wiz worse names than that on a daily basis. You get warned on something like that, not permanently banned for one comment.

There is no rule stating that you have to be well liked by the board and treat mods nicer than other posters. That's a slippery slope, imo.

1) OMM has called me worse than a dipshit recently

2) It's not that post alone. The dude had a massive red bar so any slack goes out the window.
 

woolybug25

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1) OMM has called me worse than a dipshit recently

2) It's not that post alone. The dude had a massive red bar so any slack goes out the window.

See above, his history isn't really that bad. Unless i'm missing something, his rep bar is from Rees-Hate a couple years ago. The dude barely posts.

and I don't believe that OMM has ever uttered a negative word in his life. That man is a saint!
 
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1) OMM has called me worse than a dipshit recently

2) It's not that post alone. The dude had a massive red bar so any slack goes out the window.

OMM treats posters like a mushroom. Largely ignores them, but stops by once in a while just to dump manure on them.
 

BeauBenken

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Let's not derail the thread. If the mods think he should come back, he will, but he's banned for the time being at least. Just continue on topic discussion.

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See above, his history isn't really that bad. Unless i'm missing something, his rep bar is from Rees-Hate a couple years ago. The dude barely posts.

If someone's very rare posts are neg-rep worthy I don't see why they shouldn't have a short leash. I mean the guy went crazy on Lax because of his relatively uncontroversial OP. I didn't ban him but I certainly don't see a problem with it. I wouldn't ban greyhammer for saying the same thing but greyhammer has a posting history.
 

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Wait... why did he just get banned?

Don't get me wrong, I don't really like the guy, but he didn't really do anything against the rules. Did he?

Check his posting history.

Obviously, if it was you or phork or Jayhawk or any other remotely legitimate poster he wouldn't have been banned.

Guy has 60 posts and 90% of them were trolling, insulting, or otherwise starting shit with people. That's why he had the rep bar he did and probably a bunch of previous infractions.
 

woolybug25

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Let's not derail the thread. If the mods think he should come back, he will, but he's banned for the time being at least. Just continue on topic discussion.

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So the peasants should stand down when the MODS tell them. We are weak and have no right to opinion. If you speak ill of them, you shall be BANISHED... bwahaha

ok beau... glad to see that "because we feel like it" has become an acceptable reason for banning. I guess we will all just move on and hope it isn't us getting banned next time.

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woolybug25

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Check his posting history.

Obviously, if it was you or phork or Jayhawk or any other remotely legitimate poster he wouldn't have been banned.

Guy has 60 posts and 90% of them were trolling, insulting, or otherwise starting shit with people. That's why he had the rep bar he did and probably a bunch of previous infractions.

I did check his history and it looks like most of his negs came a couple years ago when they were getting thrown around like candy in the Tommy Rees thread. I'll take a look again, but I am not seeing this recent trend of bad posting from him. He wasn't a troll.
 

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So the peasants should stand down when the MODS tell them. We are weak and have no right to opinion. If you speak ill of them, you shall be BANISHED... bwahaha



ok beau... glad to see that "because we feel like it" has become an acceptable reason for banning. I guess we will all just move on and hope it isn't us getting banned next time.



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Well said. Would rep if I knew how :)


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BeauBenken

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So the peasants should stand down when the MODS tell them. We are weak and have no right to opinion. If you speak ill of them, you shall be BANISHED... bwahaha

ok beau... glad to see that "because we feel like it" has become an acceptable reason for banning. I guess we will all just move on and hope it isn't us getting banned next time.

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Not at all what I said. I said to stop taking the thread over with why a user was banned. My post didn't justify anything, and rather suggested that if the ban isn't justified, the poster will return.

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woolybug25

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Not at all what I said. I said to stop taking the thread over with why a user was banned. My post didn't justify anything, and rather suggested that if the ban isn't justified, the poster will return.

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Oh, that's different then. My apologies.

Btw... who exactly decides if he returns? Oh yeah... the same people that banned him. The thread wasn't taken over by people asking about the banning, it was taken over when he was publicly banned for calling a mod a mean word. I highly doubt you guys were going to huddle up and discuss the merits of this dude's banning, and I highly doubt you want us to stop talking about it because its derailing the thread. It's just not something you want to talk about because you know it's wrong and you would prefer it to go away. But the rest of us aren't mods, and if we don't bring stuff like this up, then we could end up being the next casualty.

If you want to call my bluff, then start a thread for disputes. Let us talk in open forum if it's our desire. If it's "derailing" to speak of it in the thread it happens, then give us a forum for grievance.
 

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I did check his history and it looks like most of his negs came a couple years ago when they were getting thrown around like candy in the Tommy Rees thread. I'll take a look again, but I am not seeing this recent trend of bad posting from him. He wasn't a troll.

Sorry, I just realized that a large chunk of the offending posts were actually deleted by other mods. They used the "soft delete" function, so I can still see them in his history. So you can't see them, but they show up to me. It's not all that terrible, but there were some cleaned up by NDinLA with the comment "troll" and some others where he took shots at people and such.

I didn't read through them super close, but his ratio of "normal post" to "starting shit" is at best 2-to-1. Which really isn't good enough to take the line he was taking in this thread.
 

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Oh, that's different then. My apologies.

Btw... who exactly decides if he returns? Oh yeah... the same people that banned him. The thread wasn't taken over by people asking about the banning, it was taken over when he was publicly banned for calling a mod a mean word. I highly doubt you guys were going to huddle up and discuss the merits of this dude's banning, and I highly doubt you want us to stop talking about it because its derailing the thread. It's just not something you want to talk about because you know it's wrong and you would prefer it to go away. But the rest of us aren't mods, and if we don't bring stuff like this up, then we could end up being the next casualty.

If you want to call my bluff, then start a thread for disputes. Let us talk in open forum if it's our desire. If it's "derailing" to speak of it in the thread it happens, then give us a forum for grievance.

reps
 

BeauBenken

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Oh, that's different then. My apologies.

Btw... who exactly decides if he returns? Oh yeah... the same people that banned him. The thread wasn't taken over by people asking about the banning, it was taken over when he was publicly banned for calling a mod a mean word. I highly doubt you guys were going to huddle up and discuss the merits of this dude's banning, and I highly doubt you want us to stop talking about it because its derailing the thread. It's just not something you want to talk about because you know it's wrong and you would prefer it to go away. But the rest of us aren't mods, and if we don't bring stuff like this up, then we could end up being the next casualty.

If you want to call my bluff, then start a thread for disputes. Let us talk in open forum if it's our desire. If it's "derailing" to speak of it in the thread it happens, then give us a forum for grievance.
First off, there IS a banned users thread.

Second off, discussion between mods began within minutes of the ban.

Third, your paranoia is hysterical. If you really think you may be the next one banned, maybe it's because you do stuff worthy of being banned for and not because some evil ring of mods has it out for you.

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woolybug25

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First off, there IS a banned users thread.

So you're saying that we can use that thread to discuss this? Cool. See ya over there.

Second off, discussion between mods began within minutes of the ban.

Sure. I'm sure there was heated debate...

Third, your paranoia is hysterical. If you really think you may be the next one banned, maybe it's because you do stuff worthy of being banned for and not because some evil ring of mods has it out for you.

Or maybe because like all regular posters, they don't want to get banned if they end up saying the wrong thing to a mod. I'm sure it's just my problem though... you guys never do anything wrong...
 

woolybug25

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Beau wanted me to move the discussion on Teomonsternd's banning to this thread. He was banned for calling Lax a "dipshit".

Discuss.
 

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what did lax do to deserve the name calling?

does'nt seem like his M.O. to post something that would illicit that response.
 
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