After increasing his need for moderation of late and then often arguing with the staff, he crossed a line on February 13th.
He spammed 3 threads, hijacking at least one with an out of place rant about Jon Stewart.
As he has overall been better since the last suspension, the staff decided to give him another chance rather than a ban. Nonetheless, we don’t have infinite patience and expect not to see this type of behavior again.
What we said last time:
DrDeth has been modnoted, PM’d and warned often and doesn’t show improvement. He is still derailing threads and hijacking threads and is a persistent problem for the staff.
He did show improvement but has been backsliding lately, mostly hijacking over off-topic nitpicks.
Prior 30 day was August 2021:
He has been violating the 1st and 3rd instructions below with growing frequency lately.
On the 13th he clearly violated the second instruction.
We are specifically giving the same instructions:
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Don’t take threads off-topic, especially on nitpicking the meaning of a word or phrase. If it is important to you; split the topic off using the Discourse tool and argue your point in the new thread. If you need help with this, one of the mods, or any of several other posters, could help you. Let any of us know if you’d like help with this.
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Don’t worry the same topic to death in multiple threads. Your complaints about the pit, for instance, show up in far too many places.
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Don’t complain at extreme length about moderation. It’s fine to request clarification. And yes, the rules allow posters to complain about moderation they think is wrong — the mods even change their minds sometimes, after reading such complaints. But at the end of the day, we get to decide, or Ed does. And you do not have a history of persuading the mods they were wrong. Your complaints mostly just take up time, yours and ours, to no benefit.
The theme is that you need to drop things. Sometimes someone else is wrong on the internet, and you just have to live with it. Drop fights about the meaning of words and phrases, drop your frustration about topics that aren’t going to change, drop your displeasure with moderation. Or at a bare minimum, contain it.