Does mike masterson=Silo?
Yup. And you’re probably more mature right now than he’ll ever be.
Given the trouble reprise, I and others went to in this thread to specifically not mention his last SN, SmileyDeath, could you possibly have used 1/10 of that energy to email one of us, or a mod, that question?
And matt, since SmileyDeath has an email listed, you could damn well have emailed SD a response instead of posting it here. I’ll leave the issue of SD’s maturity on-board, as compared to MM/other SN’s, to someone who feels it important enough to actually post about. I will say, though, that I found him, in person, to be relatively harmless.
Guys,
Being an asshole in public, and getting banned from an internet site because of it is not the ultimate evil of human endeavor. It’s a pain in the ass, yes. It’s moderately unpleasant for those who are caught trying to be reasonable with someone who finds reason to be boring and uninteresting. But, you have them banned, and you move on.
And Mike Masterson moves on as well. And either he learns from the experience, or he doesn’t. But he might well have other interests that have greater importance to the world at large than message boards on the internet. Or, he might find a message board that suits his personal posting style and finds him to be a valued member. It’s a great big world out there.
Now, hate mongering, and the drooling spittle of real life nazis and bigots generally goes beyond board spamming and being unreasonable, and it is not conducive to reasoned thinking to call one thing by the other thing’s name.
Tris
“We better get back, cause it’ll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night, mostly.” ~ Newt, Aliens ~
I gotta agree with iampunha that Silo is a nice guy in real life.
You’re right. I skimmed the thread and didn’t realise you were keeping MM’s last SN quiet - that was an honest mistake. But my remark was snide. Apologies.
Least surprising ban in a while. Now he will have time for those time travel experiments. . . .
So that he can go back in time, and register again?! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Just curious - does it ever happen that a poster gets banned, then, by begging pleading or cheating gets back on, and reforms to become a productive and community-spirited member? I’d think it would be enough of a pain in the ass to get back on, that you’d really have to want to make nice to bother going to the trouble, but it doesn’t seem that it generally works out that way.
Though I suppose it would be better to not be a dumbass in the first place…
quote]Just curious - does it ever happen that a poster gets banned, then, by begging pleading or cheating gets back on, and reforms to become a productive and community-spirited member?
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Gary Kumquat comes immediately to mind (he is, in my opinion, one of our better posters now). Although I’m not sure he had to plead his case. We may have re-evaluated our decision after an initial reaction and un-banned him.
He came in with this crowd and after some initial ugliness, this transpired.