I made a difference! I made a difference!
:: sniff ::
I’d like to thank all the [del]jack-booted[/del] saintly mods who made this possible …
I always like this way of saying that.
You’re so far up Zotti’s arse, you can see Tuba’s feet 
Now the Google ads are giving medical advice! What’s the policy on that?
Just wanted to throw in one more hijack.
But they’re not. And whomever would ban you for that is incredibly misinformed.
Inky
If I recall, he sometimes posted incorrect information which ran the gamut from ignorant and useless to potentially dangerous.
That’s not why Handy was banned. Given his track record of repeatedly giving out not only wrong, but dangerous medical advice, he was warned not to post any sort of medical advice. He continued to post medical advice. He got banned.
BTW WeirdDave, the above post is in no way a defense of the moderator’s actions surrounding Handy. (nor is it an attack. It’s a neutral statement.)
Actually, that would describe about 96% of his posts, but that’s a whole 'nother thread.
Try telling that to Weirddave. :eek:
“Condoms are not 100% effective against STDs” is not any type of medical advice. It is a pure statement of fact. I’m not defending Handy, he contributed very little to the boards. That doesn’t meant that I can’t look at the “reason” given for his banning and say “that’s bullshit”. They were looking for an excuse to ban Handy, and instead of waiting for him to step over the line, as he undoubtedly would have done, they made one up. It was a poor moderating decision.
Nah. Handy was told that he could play so long as he never posted anything medical.
He then posted about stuff about how the utility of condoms was related to how the size of a virus compared with a human egg and asserted that it was impossible for a woman to conceive during her period – it was, in fact, typical handy dribble. Even if he was right on the money, he wasn’t told that he could only stay if he never posted anything outrageously unhelpful or incorrect on a health topic – he was told that he had to STFU entirely about everything related to human health – because he was a notorious vector of misinformation.
What was the correct thing to do? “Well, handy is posting on a health topic again, but it’s not life-threatening misinformation this time, just some basic misinformation about safe sex combined with a little bizarre confusion about how conception takes place at all, and tempered with one commonsensical fact. Let’s just let this one slide and wait for him to post something really dangerous again.”
As Larry says, that’s irrelevant. Handy was not prohibited from providing medical advice, true or not; he was prohibited from participating in medical threads in in any way, shape, or form. Given the that the vast bulk of what he posted on any topic was misinformation, that was legitimate, rather than having the mods have to analyze every post of his to see whether or not that particular one was true. IMO, he should have been prohibited from posting in GQ on any subject long before that.
Even if this is true-and I’ll grant you that it is-anyone who takes medical advise from a stranger on the internet is a double dipped moron who deserves any and everything that happens to them. THAT should be the policy of the boards regarding medical advice.
So we should ban people asking for medical advice? :dubious:
Or should the board’s policy be that anyone who does what is suggested be banned?
What are you trying to convince us of here?
I think he’s saying that the restriction on asking for medical advice is pointless and that people should take responsibility for understanding the risks of doing so, and take any such advice proferred at their own risk. In some ways, I agree with that stance. But I can also understand The Reader wanting to cover its ass.
But, what do I know? I’m too busy masturbating furiously.
Nobody should be banned. If someone wants to ask for medical advice, let them. If someone else tells them to drink kerosene, that’s fine. If they drink the kerosene, they deserve what they get.
I agree with this completely.
Sheesh, Dave…that may be true, and probably IS true, but if a particular person is consistantly posting incorrect medical information as if it is fact and the people who are in charge of the place where that person is doing this are aware of it …don’t they have a responsibility to stop him/her from DOING it? That is what I thought they were trying to do when they forbade handy from posting in ANY medical threads. He did it so pervasively, and posted so prolifically, that it would have been extremely time consuming to follow him around and stop him…and I’m sure they DO have lives they’d like to participate in, you know?
He was warned not to post in medical threads ever again, or he’d be banned. He chose to disregard the warning, and they banned him. I never had a problem with him, but I do feel that if a poster is warned that they are not to do something again and they continue to do it…they have asked for whatever action the people who run the place feel is necessary.
So, basically, you favor anarchy?
I could get behind that, if such a policy weren’t likely to mean the end of the boards when some mouthbreathing jackass tried soaking in bleach to get rid of pubic lice and sued over it.