(June 11, 2017 at 11:33 am)LastPoet Wrote:

(June 11, 2017 at 11:21 am)Aegon Wrote: Even though I hated his posts and recently put him on ignore, idk if he was trolling. He seemed to genuinely believe that drivel

I am the executioner. You have a question for me? I can undone his ban, i can apologize to appease the populace. I will sooner give up my "job" as a moderator than that. Will you defend him him and his posting of anything of worth?

I want to see you try to do that. I love free speech, but free speech is not silencing others with a few buzzwords.

I am man enough to stand. Anyone defending scoobs talk now or be forever forgotten.

Take a deep breath. This thread is here for exactly this reason. No one is attacking you; they're questioning your the staff's decision. [edit added by Thump]

I too didn't see any reason to ban him. It's not against the rules to be batshit crazy, last I checked.

(June 11, 2017 at 1:40 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(June 11, 2017 at 11:33 am)LastPoet Wrote: I am the executioner. You have a question for me? I can undone his ban, i can apologize to appease the populace. I will sooner give up my "job"  as a moderator than that. Will you defend him him and his posting of anything of worth?

I want to see you try to do that. I love free speech, but free speech is not silencing others with a few buzzwords.

I am man enough to stand. Anyone defending scoobs talk now or be forever forgotten.

Take a deep breath. This thread is here for exactly this reason. No one is attacking you; they're questioning your decision.

I too didn't see any reason to ban him. It's not against the rules to be batshit crazy, last I checked.

I was getting genuinely concerned for him, if he actually believes that stuff he needs help.
I know this is not the place to get it though.

Seems like someone we might see in a news feed.

He might go off the deep end because he was scorned here. Somebody might have gotten through to him but now he is gone.

And that would be no one's fault but his own.

I don't even know what you guys are talking about with aliens and NDEs, etc. What I do know is that if he became a liability then he's gone. From what you're saying he seems like someone who'd end up on the news.. I mean, good riddance.

KSU feel free to reach out to him personally if you're that concerned. On the other hand he could just be a 17yr old sitting in a library laughing at all of us!

(June 11, 2017 at 12:15 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Scoopypoop got banned? I'm shocked, SHOCKED I SAY!

I was waiting for this.  Those wack-job posts of his were definitely starting to reek of spam, IMHO.  Seems like the more we gave him shit about them, the more he posted.

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(June 11, 2017 at 12:24 pm)KUSA Wrote:

(June 11, 2017 at 12:15 pm)Luckie Wrote: KUSA bans are not one mod actions. They're exhaustively fretted upon and about and around by mods and admins and there's a vote count requisite. LP was just enacting a forum administration action. You've been around long enough to know that, so I consider your accusation provocative.
But, my little opinion doesn't matter.. anymore. 

As for anyone who has a question about trolling and what qualifies as trolling--I refer you to the part in the rules where it says actions are described as being at the moderators discretion whether a member has qualified themselves for the ban or not. Considering trolling is an ambiguous state, so too seem the rulings sometimes, but I trust our moderation staff to make the proper decisions regarding this forum. Having been a mod, I can account to the fact that any mod actions are reactionary, not aggressive with an intent or agenda. Fools hang themselves sometimes. I thought scoops was a troll when I came across him. Surprised he hung around so long, tbh. Whe you look at the totality of contribution and the majority being trolling, then the minority of legitimate posts is outweighed and amount to nothing. 

Any questions on the rules? Here u go.
Trolling 

Most of the time it boils down to whether the person is liked or not. Scooby had some radical opinions but as someone else mentioned, he actually believed in what he said. So it comes down to the fact that he just didn't fit in.

That's demonstrably false.  The overwhelming majority of this community despises another particular member's contributions (if they can be called that), and he is still with us 
...despite the passionate protestations of many.

(June 11, 2017 at 1:55 pm)KUSA Wrote: He might go off the deep end because he was scorned here. Somebody might have gotten through to him but now he is gone.

I tried respectful, intelligent discussion with him; no dice.

His emotions are not my responsibility, at any rate. He's an adult.

He posted purposeful offensive blanket statements about inflammatory things knowing he'd ruffle people. Seems pretty clear to me that he was a troll.

What thread? I'm curious (cough, want in on the gossip) cough.

(June 11, 2017 at 1:40 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Take a deep breath. This thread is here for exactly this reason. No one is attacking you; they're questioning your the staff's decision. [edit added by Thump]

I too didn't see any reason to ban him. It's not against the rules to be batshit crazy, last I checked.

It mabe so, he is trolling by diverting actual topics to watever topic he wants. No regard to discussion about his topics, but to stir the flames.

And yes, deep breaths. Or large breasts. Whatever floats your boat.