Can I request a temp Ban for a month?

[robvalue]

Is calling yourself out and trying to flame yourself into getting banned a bannable offence?

[Thumpalumpacus]

It is obvious that I am headed on a path of being banned permanently so it is probably a good idea that I simply just take a break.  At some forums they have a "ban me" thread where one can request to be banned for a period of time.  Say you have finals or something so you request a 1 week ban.  I'd like a month ban please.

I feel like mods and former mods are trolling me and when I respond in kind. I get warned.  Here is an example:

Another no content post from a lying lizard.  You'd be more productive if you went back to your garden and ate some aphids.

I am not an idiot and she knows it. She doesn't like my views so she chooses to demonize me.  That pissed me off an in the heat of anger, I respond in kind.  Next time I log on, my warning level is increased.  Would have been nice to have gotten a PM as to why but I am pretty sure it was that exchange.

I can't win here, so perhaps it is just better to take a break and let things chill off.

Crai moar.

[Pizza]

A while back I wanted to ban myself to really prevent me from logging in.

Surprising how easy it is to just PM an admin and have your request granted, without making such a public mess over it...

But he needs to be the center of attention or his life is meaningless.  

[Alex K]

Yes, let's give people the attention they crave. It's not a lot of work for us, and it makes them happy

[Anomalocaris]

I am not an idiot and she knows it......

You are, and she overlooked it most of the time out of politeness.

[Clueless Morgan]

It is obvious that I am headed on a path of being banned permanently so it is probably a good idea that I simply just take a break.  At some forums they have a "ban me" thread where one can request to be banned for a period of time.  Say you have finals or something so you request a 1 week ban.  I'd like a month ban please.

I wouldn't exactly call myself obsessive or addicted to af.org or facebook, but I do check both multiple times a day.  I might not always post, but I do check them.  And last year when work got really crazy and a deadline came in that I had to buckle down and hit I didn't ask for a ban to prevent myself from logging into af.org, nor did I shut down my fb to prevent myself from checking it, I just exercised self-control and didn't check them as often, and when I did checked them I gave myself time limits and told myself I wouldn't respond to posts that could suck me into long, drawn out conversations.

It's really not that hard to do this - unless you have an obsessive personality disorder of some kind (and if that's the case seek professional help).

What Heywood's request sounds like to me is the kid who wants to storm off with his ball, but also wants to look victimized by everyone else not letting him take the ball with him when he leaves.

If you want to take a break, just take one.  There's no need to make such a public spectacle of this - which leads me to conclude that the public spectacle is calculated and part of Heywood's whole plan.  

[thesummerqueen]

I do it for months at a time from this place.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I do it for months at a time from this place.

What, storm off?

:p

[LastPoet]

We stopped issuing bans on request some time ago, because when a valued member wanted a temp ban and we did it, people would not stop asking why such person was banned.

[thesummerqueen]

I do it for months at a time from this place.

What, storm off?

:p

Well, yes, but quietly. I shit all over you guys in private.