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Author Topic:   Suspensions and Bannings Part III
Adminnemooseus
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Message 83 of 273 (574224)
08-14-2010 9:10 PM
Reply to: Message 82 by Adminnemooseus
08-14-2010 4:04 AM


archaeologist - 24 hours -- Being lifted real soon
To Archaeologist:
First of all, please see Admin's message here. He is much better and more eloquent at outlining situations.
The messages I cite in my previous message vary in quality (of course, this is a IMHO). At least one is pretty good but overall things were looking pretty poor.
An eternal problem at this forum is dog piling on the creationist. It is very tough for moderators to control - About all we can do is ask those of the evolution side to have some restraint, and they tend to be pretty poor at restraint. The only really solid way to deal with dog piling is the "Great Debate" forum. The there debate is rigidly defined to be between two (or occasionally more) specific individuals. Non-specified contributor messages are very subject to ruthless content deletion.
Last night, at the suspension time, I was at a loss to explain what was happening, other than that it was a bad thing. My thoughts now, are that the load of replies to you was essentially triggering a panicked response mode - Something like, you felt the need to put out responses that you were not ready to do. In a sense, I suspended you to protect you from yourself.
So, take it easy - A few selective higher quality responses are far more impressive than many low quality responses.
The suspension will be lifted right after I post this message. I sort of have the attitude that it's always an option to shortening a too long suspension. Or something like that.
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It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.
There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots. Message 150

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Message 84 of 273 (577887)
08-30-2010 9:56 PM


Crashfrog, Jar, ICDESIGN - 24 hours by Admin
See here and upthread.
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Message 85 of 273 (578562)
09-02-2010 12:22 AM


Onifre, 48 hours
The suspension hovertext message:
See here and follow the links. - Adminnemooseus
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Message 86 of 273 (578931)
09-03-2010 2:52 AM
Reply to: Message 85 by Adminnemooseus
09-02-2010 12:22 AM


Re: Onifre, 48 hours
Lifted.
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Message 87 of 273 (579281)
09-04-2010 1:14 AM


Nuimshaan, 24 hours
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24 hour suspension - Great piles of off or non-topic blather at the Should we teach both evolution and religion in school? topic - Adminnemooseus
I started at the current topic end (message 129) hiding blather messages. As I moved upthread they just kept showing up.
Nuimshaan, after your 24 hour suspension is up, if and when you post again, please try to give us a hint that you have a clue of what a topic theme is.
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Admin writes:
It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.
There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots. Message 150

  
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Message 88 of 273 (579883)
09-06-2010 1:12 PM


Archaeologist Suspended One Week (by Admin)
See here
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Message 89 of 273 (580075)
09-07-2010 2:38 PM


Rrhain, Onifre - 24 hours
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Rrhain and Onifre, 24 hours because of this and the message it was a reply to. The Rrhain/Onifre non-topic clash must stop - Adminnemooseus
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Admin writes:
It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.
There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots. Message 150

  
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Message 90 of 273 (582437)
09-21-2010 11:32 AM


NOMA&NOPAAKAAN ORPHAN, 24 hours by Admin
See here.
I think this is Noma's second suspension, but the first one was not recorded in this topic.
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Message 92 of 273 (586236)
10-12-2010 3:52 AM


Jar, 24 hours for too many totally trite 1 sentence messages
The suspension hovertext message:
24 hour suspension. I'm tired of his little amount to nothing 1 sentence messages. Call it a forum rule 4 violation (Points should be supported with evidence and/or reasoned argumentation. Address rebuttals through the introduction of additional evidence or by enlarging upon the argument). This one really sucks. - Adminnemooseus
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ps: For the here record, the above cited message is:
Jar writes:
And then there was March, 1989.

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Admin writes:
It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.
There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots. Message 150

  
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Message 94 of 273 (586803)
10-14-2010 11:27 PM


Frako, 24 hours
The suspension hovertext message:
24 hours - I'm calling this message trollish or something like that, and a lot of his other messages are also poor. I know English is not his primary language, but he also needs to get in touch with using his shift key, to get upper-case letters where they belong. Spelling also tends to be pretty wretched. - Adminnmooseus
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Edited by Adminnemooseus, : A random "" had gotten it.

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Admin writes:
It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.
There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots. Message 150

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Message 95 of 273 (586924)
10-15-2010 2:59 PM
Reply to: Message 94 by Adminnemooseus
10-14-2010 11:27 PM


Re: Frako, 24 hours - Suspension lifted
Frako sent me a PM about 7 hours ago, but I just saw it much more recently.
Suspension lifted, effective now.
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Message 97 of 273 (588759)
10-28-2010 2:27 AM


Dennis780 - 24 hours
The "little red dot" suspension message:
24 hours - Despite a PM from me after the first offense, Dennis posted a second reply to a "Summary Messages Only" topic. - Adminnemooseus
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Added by edit - While I was preparing the suspension, Dennis also did a third (off-topic) reply.
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : See above.

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Message 99 of 273 (588887)
10-28-2010 9:11 PM
Reply to: Message 97 by Adminnemooseus
10-28-2010 2:27 AM


Dawn Bertot, Dr Adequate - 24 hours
Violations of 1 last summary message guidelines.
See here and right above.
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Message 102 of 273 (593997)
12-01-2010 2:39 AM


Dr Adequate - 6 hours for snark
The "little red dot" suspension message:
6 hours - See here. Time for another little anti-snark suspension. - Adminnemooseus
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Added by edit: It's a rule 10 violation.
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : See above.

  
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Message 103 of 273 (594991)
12-06-2010 4:47 AM


Arachnophilia, 24 hours, for not heeding warning
The "little red dot" suspension message:
24 hours - I warned and re-warned him than I was going to be strict about his use or lack of use of the shift key. For a bit his posts looked wonderful, but then he regressed. See here and here for a couple of examples. Next time, 48 hours. - Adminnemooseus
Sloppy and inconsiderate writing style from some who can easily do fine and considerate writing - Or something like that.
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