Dear sweet blessed baby virgin Bob – not even considering its questionable content, that was the worst delivery of a joke I’ve ever seen.
Did nonpolar ever have a post that didn’t have any element of hostility and/or vulgarity to it?
lissener I understand your concern regarding the treatment of members who you might think got an undeserved banning. We have all seen friends of ours get canned in the past. Members who had been here for some time that said the wrong thing or just lost it and kept going to far. They are in our hearts and will be missed by many, even the one’s with whom we disagreed. This guy ain’t one of them.
I tried to help the bastard. I defended him and made excuses for him. In the end he turned on me as well. Did he heed any warnings by the staff or members regarding his behavior. Not at all. In fact he just turned up the heat. Look at the frequency of posts and the content. You’ll often see that doperX posted ten times in twenty minutes or so. Mostly unprovoked attacks or offtopic hijacks made simply to provoke a response. This is by definition, trolling. Two of the main rules here when posting is don’t troll and don’t be a jerk.
While these two ideas may be subjective in their interpretation, it is pretty obvious they apply to n/p. Rarely is there such consensus among the members and staff when pertaining to an individual here. He had plenty of chances and ample opportunity to at least try to follow the agreement he made when he first joined the SDMB. He failed to honor his word and his commitment.
Would you rather have a board where every thread is interrupted by the hundreds of jerks and trolls who would eventually live here because nobody moderated the forums.
I say hail to the staff here. You don’t have to agree with everything or everyone but have some respect. Some things are just wrong. These guys have to try and figure out what that is. I think they do a damned good job for the most part. Besides when nonpolar becomes administrator he can do things his way, right? 
That’s a thought. I’ll have to ask my vet if that’s even available in this area. I do know that local zoning/health regulations make it impossible to have Nick buried on the barn’s property, so his body would have to be taken off-site in any case.
As far as I know, there’s only one person who removes equine bodies in my neck of the woods. He’s a crusty old Yankee who runs a boarding stable in Rockport and hauls dead horses as a side job. He disposes of the bodies on his property, in a pit out back. I odn’t know what he charges, but no doubt I’ll find out some day.
At first blush, a pit disposal seems horrible, doesn’t it? And yet, Nick’s earthly shell would be given back to the earth, rendered naturally into its composite elements and rejoining the circle of life, mingled with the bones and essence of the other horses that have found their final resting place there. No, I wouldn’t want to see it, but somehow, it seems more fitting than cremation.
I keep hoping this will continue to be merely academic for a good long while. But my New Hampshire friend tells me that Nick’s still thinner than she’d like, between the flies keeping him off his grazing over the last month, and the temporary inability to eat, then restricted diet, caused by his choking. Tomorrow he comes home!!! and I can see for myself. I’ll take some pix, and post them in the MPSIMS thread.
Then you should email a mod and ask them.
How the heck can you worry about starving kids when there are pre-13th century painters who are having trouble creating the impression of depth and space by not using certain rules where one might use inclined lines above eye-level downwards as they moved away from the observer, lines below eye-level which might be inclined upwards as they move away from the observer, and similarly lines to the left or right which might be inclined towards the centre.
Get some perspective.
Yes, yes, yes; granted granted granted. But in most bannings that I’ve noticed, SOMEWHERE there’s a post from a mod, saying “You’ve been warned, jerk, b’bye.” Absent that, there can be nothing but speculation. So thanks for all the theories.
Hey, is that a piece of fairy-cake?
If we don’t have rules we have anarchy. Anarchy I tell you!
Since n/p was the only individual I’ve pushed the little ! for, I suppose there were plenty of other complaints too.
I know the rule; but that rule bothers me. It suggests they want to keep such things quiet, which makes no sense to me. Since bannings are sometimes for reasons that are (case in point) open to interpretation, I should the think it would benefit the board to announce why a Doper was banned. If only as an example of what kind of debatable offenses are truly bannable. Additionally, such an announcement would render this kind of speculation necessary. I just see the reason to keep it a secret. If I did email a mod, I’d feel really weird keeping such a thing a secret; I wouldn’t be comfortable until I passed the explanation along in an open thread.
The more I think of it, the less sense that rule makes to me.
Yeah, but we’re trying to kill an earwig with it.
Ummm . . .
unnecessary
I just don’t see the reason
The SDMB has a “DNFTT” philosophy, at least in practice. Announcing each banning and the reasons for said banning would put an end to speculation but also give the trolls one last moment of glory. Not to mention that in cases such as december, when mods do provide a reason people still keep speculating about the “real” reason. It’s a trade-off.
lissener I’m kind of on the fence with this rule and some others as you can see here. I feel funny going behind someones back instead of asking them directly what their motivation is. Lets say there is a poster named unpolar and half of his posts seem troll-like but the other half are just goofy. I would like to be able to ask him why he is being the way he is without running to the teacher and telling on him. However, that is not the way they want to do things around here. If someone is a troll then I agree with not feeding him. If the Mods wish to go enforce these rules on the side of caution I can live with that. This is the only board I go to for a reason.
Some of the bannings, over my 4 years here, have seemed capricious,* and give some the impression that they were based more on a mod’s personal issues than with objective fair play. Keeping the process secret only serves to feed that impression.
*thanks Ilsa
In those cases, would you have accepted an official statment or would you have pressed for the “real” reason? I’m guessing the latter more often than not.
Don’t drag me into this. I was being quite the asshole when I got banned, and I don’t care to repeat the experience.
I just got an email from nonpolar. (Not kidding - he sent me an email a while back from my public address. He was very nice in that first email.)
In this one, he wrote:
“Hello.You are biggest Mother F in the world!
See You! in Hell.”
and I never said a single thing bad about him…
Heheh, that’s kinda funny, in a ‘Man, what a idiot’ sort of way…
Sorry; had no intention of drawing you into this.
Thanks. Would have had anything substantial to add to that hypocthetical thread? Or would you continue typing random words with your ass? I’m guessing the latter more often than not.