[serious] Off Topic Moderation Input - Part 2

[Docfeelgood]

[Elok]

Do you want my job?

If you don't get paid, it's not a job.

[loinburger]

"MrFun" is breaking rule #4 - clearly the current "MrFun" is an imposter http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/101506

[MikeH]

Because I know everyone was just waiting to hear my opinion...

BK's threat to Loin didn't strike me as remotely credible. However, it was definitely repeated several times, and BK was already on thin ice for harassment of gays IIUC. The stupid sexual shock-thread copycat might technically merit a warning, but it's better IMO to do what all of us were doing, namely ignoring it and letting it sink like a big, tasteless rock. Making a fuss about it will only reward and give new life to a lame troll that was otherwise dying an ignominious death. It certainly doesn't merit a six-month ban all by itself.

I admit I'm biased here, since I believe BK's behavior was the #1 reason for hostility to Christians on this site (such as the vulgar thread in question).

Do you want my job?

[MikeH]

I've closed that thread anyway.

[MikeH]

Nikolai's right - if we're going to ban people for major offenses like repeatedly threatening another poster, then we should ban people for every rule infraction no matter how minor. Somehow this will be more fair/consistent.

The mods ban somebody maybe two or three times a year at most (not counting spambots), and now you want them to start banning five people a day as though this will somehow unban Ben or make what he did any less reprehensible. It makes no sense.

Exactly.

(And for the people who can't understand sarcasm, he's being sarcastic. And I'm agreeing with his sarcastic point.)

[MikeH]

This thread obviously break rule #2, #3 and #13.

I wouldn't classify an infantile joke as hate speech.

[SlowwHand]

Very good, DaShi. Most of that is pretty funny.

Isn't Teddy Roosevelt's horse on Mt. Rushmore? No, wait. That's Abe Lincoln. Never mind.

[The Mad Monk]

Putting yourself in 3. is like putting Teddy Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore.

[Egbert]

I never had a problem with Ben. I imagine he would be an agreeable fellow if one met him in real life.

OTH He really shouldn't have threatened Loin and therefore it is easy to understand why MikeH banned him for months.

My 2 cents.

[DaShi]

New Forum Rules:

1. You must not post videos or articles without reason
Punishment: Banning, 3 months and you are dragged by a pickup truck driven by black people
2. You must not insult any poster with less than 20 posts and more than 1
Punishment: Banning, 8 months and we get to make fun of your wife for marrying you
3. You must not be called a ****** by any of the following posters more than twice in the same thread concerning the same topic
Posters: Krazyhorse, Asher, DaShi, loinburger
Punishment: Banning, 12 months and you are sodomized by Drake or Tupac (you may choose)
4. You must not be a fan of any Texas sports team
Punishment: Bannings on the day before, of, and after any game involving a Texas team. If a Texas team makes it to play-offs, then the banning continues until the end of the season
5. You must not post opinions as facts
Punishment: Banning, 7 months and a letter written to your professors at CMU
6. You must not post articles or rehash arguments from conservative blogs, think-tanks, or other such news sources
Punishment: Banning, 6 months and be forced to vote for Obama or the most conservative Islamist party in your country
7. You must not act tough when your deficiencies are obvious
Punishment: Banning, 2 months and copies of your posts are sent to your mum
8. You must not claim to make rational arguments while not using any reason
Punishment: Banning, 15 months and you are registered as a sex offender in Slovenia
9. You must not post threads bragging about illegal activities
Punishment: Banning, 3 months and your activities are reported to the Texas or California police
10. You must not post videos of bad music in the music thread
Punishment: Banning, 8 months and you are forced to listen to every video AAHZ has posted back to back (unless you are AAHZ, then it is Slowwhand's videos)

[Docfeelgood]

Do you have a reason to post this?

JM

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[Elok]

Yeah, it was less a matter of my taking his threats seriously, and more a matter of his explicitly saying that he intended for me to take his threats seriously. IMO trolling should be kept legal.

Yeah, the thread Nikolai is kvetching about would only be ban-worthy if it was part of an ongoing, systematic, and plainly targeted campaign of harassment. One let's-irk-the-Christians thread every three weeks or so hardly qualifies.

[DaShi]

Nikolai, you're intentions here are so obvious that even HC could see them. And it is really petty. Seriously, if you miss Ben so much, go start your own forum where you two can post in a way in which you two want and the vast majority of posters here do not. Or just go to panda****ers.

[loinburger]

BK's threat to Loin didn't strike me as remotely credible. However, it was definitely repeated several times, and BK was already on thin ice for harassment of gays IIUC.

Yeah, it was less a matter of my taking his threats seriously, and more a matter of his explicitly saying that he intended for me to take his threats seriously. IMO trolling should be kept legal.

If I trolled Ben by stealing his identity or infecting his computer or whatever then I should be banned even if the identity theft / computer infection caused no real harm (e.g. if I drained his bank account and then put the money back after freaking him out, or if the computer virus did nothing more than change his screen saver to dancing dicks). Ben trolled me by committing assault, which pushed things a bit too far even if no physical harm was done.