I’m glad that at least some other people seem to agree with me that Sapo was a whining jerk who’s sole purpose on these boards seemed to be to question the administration. Who cares about why he was finally banned? He deserved it, FOAD was just the straw that broke the camel’s back, IMO.
I can’t be racist. Some of my best friends are green.
I care about why he was finally banned – if it was because he was a jerk, good. If it was because, in whole or in part, FOAD is considered to be a threat, then that is assinine and should not be used as a precedent.
I know he asked a lot of annoying questions, but I have trouble remembering anything he whined about. Do you have any examples of why he bugged you this way?
I interacted with him several times in threads that had nothing to do with the administration in the week before his banning. It was not his sole purpose. He had criticism. I thought some of it was valid. I think all of it should have been allowed.
Yes, the substance is fading away, but the memory of his persistence remains. Whether you see his persistence as being admirable or a pain depends on whether you agree with his points or not, I suppose.
That’s fair enough, I guess - though would it really be such a big deal if FOAD became a banning offence? I can see that the main objection to it would be as stated in the thread title - we don’t want to be in a place where that kind of thing can happen without warning. But to me, the answer is obvious - Sapo was a special case, FOAD was just an excuse, if you like. OK, the mods probably could have handled it better, but let’s move on.
It just seemed that he had more posts in the Pit and ATMB specifically aimed at questioning board administration than any other poster, by far. And the way he put those points was often far from polite. It always seemed to me that he would put on this veneer of polite reasonableness, but underneath was just trying to wind up Ed and the mods just as far as he possibly could. Clearly, I’m not the only one to notice this.
I think this is probably a function of the fact that I mainly hang out in ATMB, GQ, and the Pit, and often IMHO and MPSIMS. I rarely venture into GD or CS - perhaps he had more to contribute there. I’m sure there were some less-than-helpful posts of his in GQ that came to my attention - also, see my response to CarnalK above. Even if it wasn’t his sole purpose, he was clearly a massive nuisance, often without sufficient justification, and the mods obviously decided enough was enough.