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RE: A_Nony_Mouse has been banned
May 14, 2013 at 11:22 am
I'm gonna miss his egregiously lengthy, sleep-inducing bore-fest discussions with Statler-Waldorf.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: A_Nony_Mouse has been banned
May 14, 2013 at 11:25 am
He wasn't just copy/pasting his own stuff. He's been copy/pasting articles off other websites as well.
We've been getting multiple reports about him for a while now, but despite giving him verbal warnings numerous times, he's just ignored us completely.
(May 14, 2013 at 10:49 am)frz Wrote: This is completely bogus. Where is the open forum, where is the free speech this forum is supposed to be about? I am outraged. Free speech is great, but not when you use it to spam and copy/paste stuff everywhere. We have rules against this for a reason.
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RE: A_Nony_Mouse has been banned
May 14, 2013 at 11:38 am
Justified as it was.... I'm still sad to see him go. 
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RE: A_Nony_Mouse has been banned
May 14, 2013 at 11:44 am
I'm not thrilled about it either....even if he was off the deep end on a few issues.
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RE: A_Nony_Mouse has been banned
May 14, 2013 at 11:44 am
He made this verse his own / 11 Timothy 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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RE: A_Nony_Mouse has been banned
May 14, 2013 at 11:47 am
(This post was last modified: May 14, 2013 at 11:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
-and now for a reading from a magazine that I found...in a hedge....
Meh, It can't be all that hard to stay within the rules enough to keep from being banned..I'm still here. Plenty of people who take every opportunity to advance their POV are still here......I think it's probably pretty difficult to get banned from this forum. You have to really want it..lol.
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RE: A_Nony_Mouse has been banned
May 14, 2013 at 11:49 am
What I read didn't seem to constitute spamming, but it's always a judgment call. I would hope he wasn't banned because some of his views were repugnant.
Does this forum have the concept of a quarantine/time out for those who transgress but have the potential to behave themselves?
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RE: A_Nony_Mouse has been banned
May 14, 2013 at 11:50 am
We used to have the gauntlet.......
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RE: A_Nony_Mouse has been banned
May 14, 2013 at 12:04 pm
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(May 14, 2013 at 11:49 am)JesusHChrist Wrote: What I read didn't seem to constitute spamming, but it's always a judgment call. I would hope he wasn't banned because some of his views were repugnant.
Does this forum have the concept of a quarantine/time out for those who transgress but have the potential to behave themselves? It wasn't spamming in the VIAGRA!!! PORN!!! OMG CLICK HERE FOR FREE CATZ!!! sense. He regularly posted links to his website, and copy/pasted a number of articles which we aren't necessarily allowed to publish here. When he did copy/paste stuff, he often did it in a manner which left a load of extraneous information in, like "By Haaretz | May.08, 2013 | 4:01 AM" which you get if you just click, drag, and copy off news sites.
He also created a thread in which he pasted PMs without properly formatting them, meaning they didn't show up as anything but a mess. We sent him numerous PMs about all of this, and I don't recall ever getting a response from him about it.
All of it combined makes a case for banning him, especially as he didn't appear to care about the rules and changing how he posted. If people think we were too harsh, we'll look into it and possibly reduce it to a warning.
As Rhythm said, we used to have the Gauntlet, but since hardly anyone sent there started behaving, it was deemed pointless. Most offenders seemed to think it was funny.
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RE: A_Nony_Mouse has been banned
May 14, 2013 at 12:12 pm
Ultimately a forum is a benign dictatorship or oligarchy. You folks run it; you make the call.
If after repeated warnings a member can't follow your rules, you do what you think is best.
My "vote" though would be a ban for a period of time or a warning, especially (as in this case) for a long term member.
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