I’ve recently heard a rumour that Libertarian has been banned.
Apparently, in a fit of snarkiness, he more-or-less invited a mod to ban him. Now I don’t necessarily a problem with the banning itself. But I am very concerned about the way it’s been handled. As of this post, Libertarian still has “Member” under his name and the post where he dared the mods to ban him seems to have been erased. His last posts that still are on the board are all pretty tame and appear to contain nothing ban-worthy.
Now of course, the mods can ban anyone they feel they need to. But I’m a bit weirded out by this one. The process should be transparent. It’s one thing to ban someone, it’s another thing to remove all evidence of a banning. As it looks now, you would think Lib is still a member in good standing who just hasn’t posted for a couple of weeks.
So I find this whole idea of zombie posters unsettling. Often, we post things with the expectation that some particular poster will chime in with a response. If someone’s gone – especially when that someone is a long-standing poster – please let us know, somehow.
Of course, if this rumour is false, please accept my apologies in advance.
Lib asked to have his posting privs removed, so we did. He can ask to come back any time. Lots of posters ask us to take away their privs for a while so they can have a break from the board and not be tempted to post; we usually don’t change their status, though we will sometimes put “on sabbatical” by their name if requested.
Please note that I am NOT suggesting any kind of interaction between the two boards, although I know that there is a pretty significant membership overlap. I am simply acting as a conduit for information.
Libertarian has strong views and is not afraid to defend them against any majority. I think that, Waverly, is why Truth Seeker was worried about what, precisely, had happened to Lib.
Think of people like him as canaries in a coal mine: If the Admins of this board decide to change policy, it’s people like them who would feel the effects of that shift first.
Hm, upon reading that thread I think Lib had a big bowl of Whinyflakes and a frosty glass of bitchjuice that morning. He asked for his privs removed (as he’s done at least once before, IIRC) and we did as he asked. If he didn’t want his privs removed, why doesn’t he ask to come back? If he did want them removed, what’s he fussing about? Geez.
I’m sorry to see him go, but the linked explanation is extremely disingenuous. Why is it that a certain destination on the web is crawling with unflattering comments about the SDMB and the continued assertion that being banned (Lib’s word, although it doesn’t seem to be altogether accurate) is a badge of honor? The vast majority of these proud-to-be-banned have demonstrated themselves to be irredeemable wankers. Other than the wanking, is there an upside to being a wanker?
Waverly, do you hate wankers? Are you spreading hate speech against those who wank?
Wanking has a long and proud tradition. Some of our biggest leaders were wankers:
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[li]Thomas Jefferson invented a device to automatically wank him, and later sold it to the French to help pay off his debts. To this day, the French have been known as some of the biggest wankers in the world.[/li][li]Abraham Lincoln’s wanking helped us win the Civil War when it so disgusted the prudish Robert Lee that he vomited into his own hat, making it impossible for him to make treaties beween the Confederacy and Great Britain.[/li][li]Franklin Roosevelt, one of the great success stories to come out of polio, regained enough strength in one hand to successfully wank, giving him the confidence to fight WWII from a wheelchair made out of the bones of his adversaries and carried around by a troop of genetically-engineered monkeys. (Those monkeys, in fact, formed the genetic base for all further developments in the creation of monkey butlers.)[/li][/ul]So, please show some respect for wankers. We’re working hard to get us all up where we belong.
Wait, I thought a Wanker was a kind of automobile engine with triangular pistons that flailed around in a epi-cyclo-pentagram (something like that) pattern and had an unnatural number of spark plugs. I do recall the engines did whine a bit.
Boy, there are a lot of whiney-pants over there: "all the good posters came here, and the dregs were left over at Dope . . " “if you do not 100% support every aspect of the Gay Political agenda, you are a Bigot . . .”