Banning of Civnation

[Urban Ranger]

Well Jon, the thing is Civvie built up his reputation as a Stone Deaf, sombody who's completely impervious to well contructed arguments and logic. So what's people to do other than laugh or yell at him?

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Well Jon, the thing is Civvie built up his reputation as a Stone Deaf, sombody who's completely impervious to well contructed arguments and logic. So what's people to do other than laugh or yell at him?

Yah he was hilarious wasn't he????

I would make up an DL like him but for the atheist side but you already have Giancarlo.

Jon Miller

[Marquis de Sodaq]

It seems that whenever someone gets banned, a bandwagon drums up support to cry out against the dastardly admins. How could they?! What flimsy justification! Altho some have been justifiable, and others not, it seems the real problem is consistency. There are some posters who regularly get away with far worse than others who get banned, but receive nary a tap on the knuckles. An even application across the board would probably lessen the outcry.

[Garth Vader]

From the FAQ

XVI) So, to be sure, what will most probably mean the disablement of my login?
Double Log Ons...
Massive spamming in a thread
Multiple identical comments posted in many different threads.
Hate Threads... Or seriously hateful posts
Massive Flaming
Behaviour which is considered distruptive to this site.
No explicit sexual discussion allowed
<b>Doing anything after an Admin or Mod tells you not to do it.</b>
Usually, common sense is the rule of how we want things to work here.

That is why he was banned.

[DinoDoc]

I don't know why you people are whinning about Civvie's ban. He's already back under the name "DefensorFidei." Check out the "Problems with Evolution" thread if you don't believe me.

[Rasputin]

Originally posted by Garth Vader
From the FAQ

XVI) So, to be sure, what will most probably mean the disablement of my login?
Double Log Ons...
Massive spamming in a thread
Multiple identical comments posted in many different threads.
Hate Threads... Or seriously hateful posts
Massive Flaming
Behaviour which is considered distruptive to this site.
No explicit sexual discussion allowed
<b>Doing anything after an Admin or Mod tells you not to do it.</b>
Usually, common sense is the rule of how we want things to work here.

That is why he was banned.

how bout the DL issue why arent people being banned for having KNOWN DLs ???

[Jon Miller]

Yah

sometimes I think I must be an MikeH DL

Jon Miller

[Garth Vader]

XVI) So, to be sure, what will most <b>probably</b> mean the disablement of my login?

Ultimately the mods have and use their own judgement. Any infraction of the rules might be punished, and may not. It depends who's on and what kind of mood they are in. If you don't want to get banned, don't break the rules, it's pretty easy to do.

If you want to break the rules you take your chances.

[Winston]

Originally posted by Marquis de Sodaq
It seems that whenever someone gets banned, a bandwagon drums up support to cry out against the dastardly admins. How could they?! What flimsy justification! Altho some have been justifiable, and others not, it seems the real problem is consistency. There are some posters who regularly get away with far worse than others who get banned, but receive nary a tap on the knuckles. An even application across the board would probably lessen the outcry.

I agree.

As I stated before, it's called political correctness. Not much we can do about it - only sometimes it's so obvious that it backfires on the mods themselves.

They ought to think about these instances for a little more than ten seconds before banning. Gut reactions are seldomly to be trusted when dealing with real flesh and blood posters.

[Rasputin]

well i feel that soemtimes it is the mods/admins lack of action that breeds more of this sort of stuff, some people can get away with it, whilst others cant.....

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Marquis de Sodaq
There are some posters who regularly get away with far worse than others who get banned, but receive nary a tap on the knuckles.

i wish people who have such opinions to do something about it when it happens(if it happens). commenting about something wrong long after it happened when you have done nothing about it, is rather disheartening

[Ming]

Good point MarkG. I think everybody assumes that we read EVERY word typed on these forums. That is far from reality. Many of the times, we are responding to complaints. If somebody doesn't complain, we may NEVER see it. There is just far too much activity on these forums for every word to be read on a timely basis. In some cases, if a thread drops off the first page within a 5 or 6 hour period, you can probably bet none of the mods may have even read it

[DarkCloud]

Hey everyone-

Did you just realize that CivNation2001 is my DL... he even says so, with his own DL, (DefensorFaith)

What makes this complicated is that I am Giant_Squid's DL

[Jon Miller]

You can't be Squids DL

he said only I was

sniff

Jon Miller

[Immortal Wombat]

Hold on, he's my DL, that I registered early in preparation for this login