Quote: On Banning: ...
* Repeat offenders who continue to violate policy and/or administrative direction, will be permanently banned. * Every user may contest their ban through our Support System. Please include any and all relevant information and links where applicable. While we reserve the right to allow certain users readmittance, do not expect to be given a second chance if you have been perm banned.
Quote: Post Whores are those who create multiple posts of little or no content, which fail to contribute to the topic at hand, or whom create multiple threads in rapid succession, in effect "flooding" a forum. Post Whores may or may not engage in such behavior to intentionally drive up their post count.
Quote: When someone gets on the bad side of the community and continues to act out, bringing the wrath of our more vocal members upon themselves and generally becoming a detriment to the health and harmony of the boards, they will be processed in accordance with the On Banning guidelines above."
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1465662/an/0/page/0
If Luddite's behavior doesn't fit with the descriptions in the lower two quotes then no one's does, or ever will. In fairness, supernovasky and his Palin floodery should have been stopped in accordance with these rules, but wasn't. Coaster and Supernovasky are both total post whores. No question. I've also never seen either one call the other users here losers (and get away with it), or use ethnic slurs. By the way, if racism directed at other users isn't flaming, nothing is.
Quote: There are three posters who get more shit thrown at them for their views than any others - zappaisgod, Lonestar, and Luddite. An objective review of the forum makes that abundantly clear.
Quote: If he posts off-topic stuff, I (or Diploid or maybe even Seuss) will move it to a different forum again.
Apparently, objectivity is subjective. Zappaisgod throws more shit than any other poster here, yet he's a victim? Give me a break! Luddite's whole life purpose seems to be trolling this forum. You say that off-topic posts will be shut down or moved, yet this thread which is the epitome of off-topic and irrelevant, remains open and in here.
Quote: As of yet, the Powers That Be have not decided that threads started by a post with a cut-and-paste quote with no accompanying commentary from the thread starter are to be locked if caught before discussion by respondents ensues. The deal is that only bare links and bare videos warrant insta-locking.
Did Luddite just slap a URL or a video with no commentary of his own? Nope. He cut-and-pasted commentary from a source, then provide a link back to the source (as is required by the forum rules for cut-and-pastes), and neglected to add commentary of his own.
If y'all want to whine that this is a technicality, take it up in Website Announcements and Feedback. I get paid the big bucks to enforce the rules as written.
HA! http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/8749484/an/0/page/3 Also, that "technicality" is an epic cop-out.
I really enjoy coming here and actually discussing politics with people who are generally pretty informed, unlike most people in the world. This forum is actually pretty balanced if you ask me. Try debating at the Daily Kos or Drudge, or whatever. Of course, I expect many here to lean left.. this is the Shroomery, people. I appreciate having zappaisgod (in reality, especially zap), lonestar, Phred, John and Seuss around to propagate real debate. That is the difference here, in my opinion. These users want to discuss.. Luddite just trolls looking for responses.
If you don't ban Luddite, that is all well and good. I just want to see more consistency in the moderation of this forum, and probably a review of the rules. Personally, I think that this discussion is very healthy for this forum, and probably one of the best things that could happen.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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