FXMasterMind has been banned for trolling.
He has accrued several warnings in his time here:
8-21-11: Trolling
9-3-11: Personal Insults
9-6-13: Failure to Follow a Moderator’s Instructions
3-11-14: Failure to Follow a Moderator’s Instructions
3-15-14: Hijacking a Thread
4-12-15: Failure to Follow a Moderator’s Instructions
4-12-15: Personal Insults
5-3-15: Personal Insults
All of which led to a suspension last May
Last week, I gave him a mod note for bumping this thread for particularly flimsy reasons. It was noted in the mod loop that this has been part of a pattern of behavior for him for some time: his most recent trick has been to make largely content free posts in contentious threads, with the apparent aim of keeping controversies from dying off. Some notable threads where he has done this are here, here, here, and here. And, of course, here, where I made the error of letting him get away with this and similar behaviors for way too long.
After discussion among the moderation staff, it was agreed that, when taken with his previous warnings, this recent behavior indicated someone who was primarily motivated in seeing how far he could push the boundaries before he got slapped. In other words, a troll, and a consistent one. In light of this recent pattern of behavior, I felt that simply mod noting him for bumping the Clothahump Pit thread was insufficient, and that it should be upgraded to a full warning. That warning, in conjunction with his recent suspension, is grounds for a full ban.