Banning Someone

[irishog77]

I wasn't on here last night, but did it go something like this:

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Sorry, I am home sick today and bored.

All kidding aside though, all the Mods do a great job of making this a really fun place. We all understand what had to be done and no one should give you any heat for it.

Nice pull, Irish!!

 

[TerryTate]

It's about time you gave Terry Tate the boot.

Watching you.

 

[WabashFalcon]

*Sigh*. Oh Bambi.

 

[tadman95]

I didn't see all of it but it was pretty bad. He seemed determine to blow things up.

Personally, I think with hunting season drawing near, and his imminent cowardly retreat into the deep woods to hide among-st the little critters and daffodils, this was all a rouse to look tough and build reputation. LOL J/K

 

[k1ssme1m1r1sh]

$HIT!, now there's going to be no one to rep my stupid posts!

OR send me gifts!!!

 

[bigedefense]

Wow. I have been away for a while because I had another back surgery and I PM'd Neutered yesterday asking him how things had been going. I jokingly said that I could see that he hadn't been banned lately. Wow, a few hours later and BAM! He is fun to chat with on here and his posts are some of the funniest on here. He kept up with me while I was recovering, so I really like the guy. However, Mods, you did what you are supposed to do. He got the deer in the head lights mood going and was bouncing crazy stuff on here. I missed the first round of deleted posts, but I saw the next round. NDinLA and the basketall Mod both gave him warnings to calm down. Heck, other posters were trying to calm him down. At least the rules are fair and no matter how popular you are, you have the same rules. REPS to all the Mods!!!

 

[TerryTate]

I guess I can post this story again. From the Rivals Mainboard

Premise: Guy starts thread about wanting to tackle a doe. He puts on a bike helmet, life preserver, and a cup and disappears from the message board.

This guy chimes in with his story. Funniest thing I've read in a long time:

Reminds of this story. Probably didn't end well for OP.

I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer.

I figured that since they congregated at my cattle feeder and did not seem to fear when we were there. A bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not four feet away. It shouldn't be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it to transport it home.

I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The cattle, who had seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They were not having any of it.

I only had to wait for 20 minutes before three deer showed up. I picked one out, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation.

I took a step towards it. It took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope and received an education.

The first thing that I learned is that while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope.

That deer exploded.

The second thing I learned, that pound for pound, a deer is a lot stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope with some dignity intact. A deer? No chance.

That thing ran, bucked, twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and I certainly could get close.

The deer jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground. It occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I originally imagined.

The only up side is that they do not have as much stamina as many animals. It was tired after 10 minutes and not nearly as strong to jerk me off my feet and drag me. With the blood flowing out of the big gash on my head, it took me a few minutes to realize this.

At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope. I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere.

At the time, there was no love lost between that deer and me. At that moment, I hated the thing and I would venture to guess that the feeling was mutual.

Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly. I recognized that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in, so I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death. I managed to get it lined up to back in between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set, like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and started moving up so I could get my rope back.

My third lesson: Deer bite. Never in a million years, I would have thought that a deer would bite somebody so I was very surprised when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist.

Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and shakes it's head, almost like a pit bull. They bite hard and it hurts. The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead.

My method proved ineffective. It seemed like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now), distracted it. While I kept it busy tearing up my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose.

That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day. Deer will strike at you with their front feet.

They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp. I learned a long time ago that when an animal like a horse strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape.

This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond I devised a different strategy. I screamed like woman and tried to turn and run.

I was always told not to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you. There's a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Aside from being twice as strong and three times as evil, deer may not be so different from horses after all. The second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down.

Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head. I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away.

I was pretty beat up. My scalp was split open, I had several large goose eggs (bumps), my wrist was bleeding pretty good and felt broken (it turned out to be just badly bruised) and my back was bleeding in a few places, though my insulated canvas jacket had protected me from the worst of it. I drove to the nearest place, which was the co-op. I got out of the truck, covered in blood and dust and looking horribly. The guy who ran the place saw me through the window and came running out yelling, "What happened?"

I have never seen any law that would prohibit an individual from roping a deer. I suspect that this is an area that they have overlooked entirely. Knowing, as I do, the lengths to which law enforcement personnel will go to exercise their power, I was concerned that they may find a way to twist the existing laws to paint my actions as criminal. I swear not wanting to admit that I had done something monumentally stupid played no part in my response.

I told him "I was attacked by a deer." I did not mention that at the time I had a rope on it. Attack evidence was all over my body. Deer prints on the back of my jacket where it had stomped all over me, and a large deer print on my face where it had struck me there. I asked him to call somebody to come get me. I didn't think I could make it home on my own.

Later that afternoon, a game warden showed up at my house and wanted to know about the deer attack. Surprisingly, deer attacks are a rare thing and they where most interested in the event. I tried to describe the attack as completely and accurately as I could... "I was filling the grain hopper and this deer came out of nowhere and just started kicking me and it bit me. It was obviously rabid or insane or something".

For miles around, everybody learned about the deer attack (the guy at the co-op has a big mouth). For several weeks people dragged their kids in the house when they saw deer. The local ranchers carried rifles when they filled their feeders.

I have told several people the story, but never anybody around here. I have to see these people every day and as an outsider. a "city folk" I have enough trouble fitting in without them snickering behind my back and whispering "there is the guy that tried to rope the deer."

 

[Veer option]

I have read that before it was quite humorous.

 

[mgriff]

I love a good revolution...

 

[Rhode Irish]

TT, that is excellent.

As far as Neutered, I missed most of last night's, um, action. So I really can't comment on the specifics of what went down. I like Neutered. He is an interesting poster and, in my experience, a pretty nice person. Having said that, based on the little that I did see and reading others' accounts of what happened, I don't see that the mods any other choice. For whatever reason, Neutered clearly has an issue with TP. He's clearly had issues with others before, too, and he has been right in the past (TrojanPrincess, for one example). In this case, though, I'm not sure what TP did to wind up in Neutered's cross hairs. I think everyone else on the board values TP's insights, along with GBDomer's, who also apparently had an issue with Neutered last night.

Hopefully, after a cooling off period, Neutered can come back to the board. I hope he is here for the football season. Obviously, that will be up to the mods who, as others have correctly stated, do a fantastic job with this board and really had no other choice here.

 

[Kingbish01]

I'm bored at work so here is my 2 cents. We are all members of this board because we all love ND, and not just ND football but ND as a whole. We will not always agree on everything, and that’s what makes it fun. I have witnessed fighting back and forth and snide comments a lot. I have even been guilty of this, on multiple occasions. This is not a “sec” forum where we all have different teams that we are rooting for. We should try to treat each other with more respect; a lot of people come to IE for their news on ND football. Some of the banter that goes back and forth amongst our own fans on this forum leads me to think that the reputation that follows ND fans just might be true. But like with any family, there is always going to be fighting. GBdomer, you’re a great poster, keep it up. And if the “banned man” comes back, I’m sure he will continue to entertain as usual. But…..ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. I hope I am not “attacked” for posting my opinion………..I’m joking..geez.

 

[johnnykillz]

I'm bored at work so here is my 2 cents. We are all members of this board because we all love ND, and not just ND football but ND as a whole. We will not always agree on everything, and that’s what makes it fun. I have witnessed fighting back and forth and snide comments a lot. I have even been guilty of this, on multiple occasions. This is not a “sec” forum where we all have different teams that we are rooting for. We should try to treat each other with more respect; a lot of people come to IE for their news on ND football. Some of the banter that goes back and forth amongst our own fans on this forum leads me to think that the reputation that follows ND fans just might be true. But like with any family, there is always going to be fighting. GBdomer, you’re a great poster, keep it up. And if the “banned man” comes back, I’m sure he will continue to entertain as usual. But…..ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. I hope I am not “attacked” for posting my opinion………..I’m joking..geez.

Thanks for the catharsis...

 

[Kingbish01]

I'm still trying to dry my eyes.....You guys are my only friends. Please quit fighting! (back to hitting the refresh button like a crazy man)

 

[NDinL.A.]

so according to another thread that was recently closed i guess only people who post all the time are welcome here because they contribute to the board as opposed to those who don't feel the need to write something every ten minutes. good to know.

Thanks for the support guys. Very much appreciated, from the posts on here and the PMs. The staff, from the owner of the site on down, has agreed that the ban is going be lengthy. As much as we like him and appreciate his contributions to the site, this is not the first nor the 2nd nor the 3rd time down the road with him. I really do hope he's doing OK. That's all I'm going to say on the matter...

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

 

[BeauBenken]

I posted that GBdomer "contributes more than most around here". That was not intended as a shot at anyone who doesn't post frequently; indeed, those few who insist on spamming the board without contributing anything to the discussion are supremely obnoxious.

I was merely trying to let GBdomer know his presence on this board is appreciated. Sorry if I gave offense.

But I thought you loved me.
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[Rack Em]

But I thought you loved me.
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Nah he was talking about dshans.

 

[NDOM]

Who is crazy enough to get banned anyway.......................................................................................................................Oh wait.......ME! LOL I have been banned at least 4 or 5 times. But I learned my lesson and quite honestly I think I'm a lot more mellow than I used to be.

I like Neutered, he's definitely one of my favorites for sure. He will be back again at some point (after his suspension).

 

[Bubba]

I've been here a long time and I don't contribute anything significant and I have never felt unwelcomed. So I'm not sure where that feeling would come from for anyone here. Neutered is a buddy and he's very entertaining, but I'm sure he got what was coming to him. I STILL SUPPORT YOU BUDDY, COME BACK AND CONTRIBUTE WHEN YOUR PAROLE IS OVER.

Anybody remember the poster Ralphwaldoemerson? Now that guy was a complete arse! He could pick a fight with a buddist monk.

You mods do a great job. This is the only sports forum that I come to on a regular basis because most of the others are just a bunch of guys arguing 100% of the time. It is refreshing that we can come here and be civil to each other (for the most part).

 

[beryirish]

Who is crazy enough to get banned anyway.......................................................................................................................Oh wait.......ME! LOL I have been banned at least 4 or 5 times. But I learned my lesson and quite honestly I think I'm a lot more mellow than I used to be.

I like Neutered, he's definitely one of my favorites for sure. He will be back again at some point (after his suspension).

Pot will do that to you.....

 

[TerryTate]

Who is crazy enough to get banned anyway.......................................................................................................................Oh wait.......ME! LOL I have been banned at least 4 or 5 times. But I learned my lesson and quite honestly I think I'm a lot more mellow than I used to be.

I like Neutered, he's definitely one of my favorites for sure. He will be back again at some point (after his suspension).

You'll be back to your old ways by football season...

 

[NDOM]

You'll be back to your old ways by football season...

Yeah that's true. Once per year I get banned. Except I don't think I got banned last year.


I KNOW FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!! NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL will do that to a person. lol

Reps.

 

[kmoose]

And you can't bag on people b/c they misspell a few words

Watch me!

In all seriousness, I love the little bastage, but it's not like this is new behavior. You did what you had to do, NDinL.A.; he left you no other choice. He'll get butthurt for a while, then come back and be his erratically congenial self for a while. We all like the guy, but simply liking him doesn't mean that we don't understand the need for you and the other mods to maintain decorum and enforce the rules.

 

[TheTurningPoint]

I apologize. Neutored had the problem with me for whatever reason from day 1? Did I post something ridiculous at some point? Just curious why he hatin on me so much lol

 

[crzychris]

Guess I missed the action last night. Still, gotta give a shout out to the Mods; keeping these forums great for discussing the Irish and all.

 

[GBdomer]

I apologize. Neutored had the problem with me for whatever reason from day 1? Did I post something ridiculous at some point? Just curious why he hatin on me so much lol

He seems to have a problem with the both of us. But it was all cleared up by the mods last night. You start to wonder if its something I also said.

 

[BGIF]

I apologize. Neutored had the problem with me for whatever reason from day 1? Did I post something ridiculous at some point? Just curious why he hatin on me so much lol

It was just your turn. You were far from the first. If there was a Three Strikes and You're Out Rule for getting banned. He'd be in the 5th or 6th inning.

The question isn't about what you said or didn't say, it really should be why is this abusive behavior tolerated repeatedly?

Temporary bans obviously don't work. Numerous mods have tried to reason with him. I have a file of PM's from him apologizing for attacks on people. A day, a week, a month later, some ol', same ol'.

 

[ryno 24]

ND in La you keep up with the important information and keep this sight half way civil which is important... and sometimes it seems we need you around more than you are thanks for the time and effort of being a mod

 

[johnnykillz]

BGIF: You act as though you have no dog in this fight...

lol.

Too Turning Point and GBDomer: I can only imagine he was asking whether or not you had sources. I just think the way the three of you communicated left a lot to be desired, with Bambi most at fault. Know, you will be challenged for your sources.

I will say this: If the information you retrieve from pay sites is not your own, is not common knowledge, or doesn't come from Coach Hinton's Godson, which you both may be, you should try to cite to some extent.

BGI, Irish Eyes, ISD, etc may own your @$$ someday otherwise. (And possibly this website where you post the information)

The one thing I will say to NDinL.A. and Irishfan as mods, is that they exhibited great tact in the situation. When a moderator goes down to the level of the individual getting disciplined with smart @$$ pms etc., they are no better than the offender.

 

[BeauBenken]

To GB and TurningPoint, I get the feeling Neutered doesn't like people who get praise for having inside sources. I don't think he believes you really have them and/or he doesn't think people should kiss your *** for giving up the scoop. The last part he may be right about. Nonetheless, I don't think he should flip out on anyone.

Great job by the mods last night. IrishFan (I hope that's right), the hoops mod, was working pretty hard in the wee hours of the morning so I commend him.