# Permanent Ban for ZosterSandstorm **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Tags:** suspension-banning\ **Created:** [November 5, 2026, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/permanent-ban-for-zostersandstorm/1034505 "2026-11-05T18:11:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/permanent-ban-for-zostersandstorm/1034505/1 "2026-11-05T18:11:28Z")
After discussion in the mod loop, we have decided to permanently ban [@ZosterSandstorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zostersandstorm) from the board. It is our perception that this poster is basically here to troll and gin up anger around hot button issues, rarely offering evidence for their claims and frequently insulting other posters. They have 6 formal warnings. The mod staff has made a lot of effort to ameliorate this poster’s behavior, to no avail. For full details of the warnings, please click through to the actual links. In October 2020: > [@Selective Magnet School in Virginia moving towards a lottery system](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-magnet-school-in-virginia-moving-towards-a-lottery-system/922347/305): > > Moderating This in particular is wholly inappropriate for this forum. This is an official warning. In January 2021: > [@The depths of Britain's Labor (they say Labour) party anti-Semitism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-depths-of-britains-labor-they-say-labour-party-anti-semitism/927204/130): > > Warning for ZosterSandstorm, you like to make debates personal. That is not allowed. While this one might seem minor, you do this far too often. Please stop it. Everytime you make a post in GD or P&E personal going forward will result in a warning and then a suspension if you persist. This is an official warning to not violate this basic rule of P&E and GD. In May 2021: > [@Another Critical Race Theory thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-critical-race-theory-thread/941389/258): > > Warning and thread ban for [ZosterSandstorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZosterSandstorm). You are rehashing an old and tired pet issue in a thread not for it. I am officially warning you to change your behavior in CRT threads going forward and to stay out of this thread from this point forward. Another in May 2021 in the same thread as referenced above for this post, by moderator @Hari_Seldon but not documented in the actual thread: > [@Another Critical Race Theory thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-critical-race-theory-thread/941389/189): > > In CRT, Asians aren’t fully formed people with their own motives, goals, and values, they are just semi-robotic “wedges” used in the eternal race war between whites and blacks. When Asians do well it’s because they are “white-adjacent,” “white-acting,” imported by whites to harm blacks, or propped up to serve as a “model minority” which is bad because it implies that blacks might have agency over their own lives. Any Asian success is part of some larger scheme by the white cabal to harm black p… > [@On another topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/942224/1): > > This is a caricature of CRT. I am making this an official warning. In November 2021 (this was communicated via a private message and is not available through a link): > [@On another topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/953834/1): > > **Warning** for **ZosterSandstorm**. > This is still talking about and hijacking the thread with CRT. You were specifically noted to stop. I’m going to discuss a topic ban on this subject with the other mods. > > As of right now, you are banned from this thread. Hopefully you understand this instruction. @ZosterSandstorm then took an extended hiatus from the board. Upon their return, they went back to trolling, whether by intent or otherwise. Since the effect is the same, we do not draw a distinction between intentional and non-intentional trolling. They were mod noted for it on November 1, 2026: > [@Senate races 2026](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-races-2026/1013534/1261): > > There have been no such ads applying that word to Sayed. Abdul merely _supports_ Muslim Brotherhood governance, driving explosive cars into Jewish preschools to do mass shootings, and blaming Jews for stealing your bananas. > [@Senate races 2026](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-races-2026/1013534/1264): > > Moderating: Let’s dial back the deliberately provocative descriptions in P&E. You’re verging on trolling and have been cautioned several times to avoid doing this. You’ve suffered a previous suspension for doing this as well as a topic ban. Do it again and we must escalate moderation to stop these repeat offenses. They then immediately returned to the same inflammatory theme on November 2, 2026, for which they received another warning and a temporary suspension while their posting privileges were discussed: > [@Senate races 2026](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-races-2026/1013534/1406): > > Moderating: This is a permanent formal warning and suspension from this thread as well as a suspension from the board for a period of time while we discuss your future posting privileges. You are back to using virtually the identical troll-like language you were mod-noted yesterday by me to stop using. As I told you then, moderation would escalate. Now it has. In addition to the formal warnings delineated above, they have suffered 2 suspensions, many mod notes and an impressive number of flags. For all of the above reasons, we have chosen to permanently ban this poster. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/permanent-ban-for-zostersandstorm/1034505)._