New job and all I’ve been out of the SDMB loop for some time. I just saw that December has been banned. How did this happen? Can someone give me the details or link to them?
There’s a ‘sticky’ in the Pit for info about December’s demise.
Actually it appears the sticky was un-stuck. Anyway, link.
Yeah cainxinth, December was banned. But even after I read the “sticky” I couldn’t understand why December was banned. They got mad at me because I couldn’t understand.
What’s the big deal, here?
They finally got tired of his naive ‘when did you stop beating your wife’ crap.
The last straw was posting a quotation in Great Debates about Iraq that he attributed to GWB.
In reality, the quotation was a a combination of two different statements made at different times by Bill and Hillary Clinton. It was intentionally posted with a false attribution in order to draw comments, presumably disparaging, so that december could then turn around and do a “Gotcha!”
While his previous posting practices had irritated a lot of people, this one was a classic troll.
…Interesting. My own political views never meshed with December’s on just about any issue, but I always found him a generally polite if somewhat dogmatic person. It’s a shame he let his perspective skew his posting tactics to such an extreme as to merit a banning. Anyway, thanks for the heads up.
Questions about bannings should be asked by e-mail to a staff member or–if you must–in the BBQ Pit. I’ll close this thread since it has been discussed ad nauseum in another forum.: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=207937