I would like to point out for the record that Twix has not actually been eaten (at least not that I know of). Generally speaking, we eat the trolls, not the mods.
ETA: (I suppose I should have refreshed first to see if Twix had posted on her own while I was reading…)
Good work, guys. Skip, maybe you’re not such an asshole after all.
This is a step in a better direction.
Thank you.
Thank you.
No, I pretty much am. My wife’s just doing the typing in this thread so it doesn’t leak out so much.
Your loss! Anyways, I meant Twix not twicks. 
You forgot the “no matter what they say”.
I am not claiming any insight nor challenging Skips’ account of what happened. All I am saying is that although he might be the proximate cause, he is not the ultimate cause.
I might be missing some details that happened behind the scenes, but from what we can tell from the audience, the issue did start with Tuba’s PM to Seven and him publishing it. Is that not the case?
We might argue who is more at fault, her for sending it or him for publishing it, but is she hadn’t sent it, he couldn’t have published it.
Well I’ll join the chrous - to TPTB, well done on reversing this decision.
I still think that Tuba’s PM to 7 was unneccesarily rude and provocotive and was probably a major cause in the banning (no matter who pulled the trigger or subsequent acrtions) and would hope that “those in authority” can speak more civilly. After all, it is very seldom that you get what you want by antagonising others and calling them names.
well done
And all it took was nine pages and damned near every active poster on four boards telling you how bullshit it was. Well done indeed.
What was the context of the quote that Seven used as a signature? Since you know.
Excellent decision.
swf42: goes back to lurking. May the Force be with you all, and such.
Sapo, Sapo, Sapo, don’t you know a tree that was supposed to fall in the forest but lands in the public square still never makes a sound.
Y’all made the correct decision. Kudos for that. But please keep your wits about you in the future.
Does it matter? No matter what the “context” a nasty comment is still a nasty comment. Whether you feel it was deserved or not, nastiness is never becoming, and even less so to someone speaking from a position of authority.
I am not very skilled with words compared to many on this board. but even I could have re-written that comment to be a whole lot more useful, and likely to get the desired response. Tuba, having been around since the beginning (waaaaaay longer than me) should know enough to understand that this sort of comment is only likely to antagonise and lead to further nastiness. If not, she doesn’t have the intellect that I have always abscribed to her.
And good decision, though I think Seven should only have gotten Seven Days of suspension, if anything.*
Excellent decision. Yay!
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Great decision y’all. Thank you.
All things considered, I have to say that my thoughts are pretty much the same, and this didn’t actually lessen my disappointment with the board moderation a whole lot.
The reason why? I don’t think that the banning would have been changed to a suspension were it not for the multi-page thread and that resulted from the precipitous banning. I don’t really see what would stop exactly the same sort of moderator action from happening again.
Carrying on that thought, what if the poster hadn’t been around for umpteen years with umpteen thousand posts that would spawn the kind of posting output of the last 24 hours? Would that person still be banned? My gut reaction is that the answer to that is “yes”.
It seems to me to be a very poor model of customer service that relies on the sustained deafening din of outrage to realize that there is a process problem in customer service.