Free KH!

[Kitschum]

I've had a think about what happened. I banned KH, because on a large number of occasions he had been scolding me, and no amount of warnings (in various forms) had turned the tide.

Reflecting on the matter, I shouldn't have banned KH.

For at least three reasons. One, I was personally involved in this, so that I should have passed this down to another member of staff (again). Second, abusive language has become normal in the off-topic forum. Third, whatever reprimand KH is given only works counter-productively, which can be observed through his boastful gloating on another forum.

So I'm sorry that this happened, and KH gets a 'get out of jail free' card from me.

I do believe, however, that there is space for reflection here for others as well. Do you really want the off-topic forum to be a place where anything goes? Have a think about it.

-Z

Ok. This has gotten way out of hand and I've changed my mind. I'd prefer if you ban KH forever and anyone else you find worthy of your special attention. Watch for my thread on this urgent matter.

You can start with me if you want. I don't play favorites.

[loinburger]

Hooray, anything goes in the off-topic forum now? [posts twenty hilariously rhyming copycat threads]

[Thoth]

I've had a think about what happened. I banned KH, because on a large number of occasions he had been scolding me, and no amount of warnings (in various forms) had turned the tide.

Reflecting on the matter, I shouldn't have banned KH.

For at least three reasons. One, I was personally involved in this, so that I should have passed this down to another member of staff (again). Second, abusive language has become normal in the off-topic forum. Third, whatever reprimand KH is given only works counter-productively, which can be observed through his boastful gloating on another forum.

So I'm sorry that this happened, and KH gets a 'get out of jail free' card from me.

I do believe, however, that there is space for reflection here for others as well. Do you really want the off-topic forum to be a place where anything goes? Have a think about it.

-Z

If you had spent some time becoming familiar with the culture of the OTF you wouldn't have gotten baited so easily.

The OTF is a wild and often nasty place. The regulars like it that way.

Meddle at your own risk.

[giblets]

So what have we learned? Staff members with a thin enough skin to ban posters who insult them are also thin-skinned enough to be pressured into rescinding the ban?

[self biased]

Hooray, anything goes in the off-topic forum now? [posts twenty hilariously rhyming copycat threads]

your copycat threads are rarely hilarious.

[Thoth]

So what have we learned?

Forum dramas are entertaining.

[KrazyHorse]

at this whole episode. Will gloat more when I get home from work.

[KrazyHorse]

I do note that my thread title still hasn't been changed back...

[loinburger]

your copycat threads are rarely hilarious.

That's the fault of the fascist moderators - by the Rule of Copycat Threads the first eleven copycats are never funny, but by the time I get to the twelfth I've been banned

[Grandpa Troll]

It looks like dutch.

Yeah..so maybe he could be called IKEA boy instead of dutch boi....................

[Grandpa Troll]

I've had a think about what happened. I banned KH, because on a large number of occasions he had been scolding me, and no amount of warnings (in various forms) had turned the tide.

Reflecting on the matter, I shouldn't have banned KH.

For at least three reasons. One, I was personally involved in this, so that I should have passed this down to another member of staff (again). Second, abusive language has become normal in the off-topic forum. Third, whatever reprimand KH is given only works counter-productively, which can be observed through his boastful gloating on another forum.

So I'm sorry that this happened, and KH gets a 'get out of jail free' card from me.

I do believe, however, that there is space for reflection here for others as well. Do you really want the off-topic forum to be a place where anything goes? Have a think about it.

-Z

Seriously, are you a noob?..OT has allways been testing the limits of anything goes....tough place to set up a Weiner Stand and not expect to get it chomped on, just sayin....

[self biased]

Called out by Grandpa Troll; how embarrassing.

[PLATO]

Called out by Grandpa Troll; how embarrassing.

QFT.

Go Troll!

[SpencerH]

"Prisoner
Well... I'd just like to say, m'lud, I've got a family... a wife and six kids... and I hope very much you don't have to take away my freedom... because... well, because m'lud freedom is a state much prized within the realm of civilized society. (slips into Olivier impression) It is a bond wherewith the savage man may charm the outward hatchments of his soul, and soothe the troubled breast into a magnitude of quiet. It is most precious as a blessed balm, the saviour of princes, the harbinger of happiness, yea, the very stuff and pith of all we hold most dear. What frees the prisoner in his lonely cell, chained within the bondage of rude walls, far from the owl of Thebes? What fires and stirs the woodcock in his springe or wakes the drowsy apricot betides? What goddess doth the storm toss'd mariner offer her most tempestuous prayers to? Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!

Judge
It's only a bloody parking offence. "

[BlackCat]

Yeah..so maybe he could be called IKEA boy instead of dutch boi....................

I think Kitschum will be a bit offended - IKEA is kinda swedish