I don’t know what the other warnings were for, but the one that precipitated the suspension was clearly a harmless funny response to this quote:
In fact, he (she? I think he) quoted even sven in the post that you suspended him for.
That’s okay. Regardless of the propriety of the suspension, it still serves a purpose.
I noticed one of the other warnings a few days ago. It was for posting “NSFW ASCII art” in this Pit thread It was started by an obvious troll who has already been banned, and the entire thread was basically a shit slinging free for all. On the one hand, yeah, the image was technically NSFW, but on the other hand, ASCII art??
I was a little surprised it got an official warning instead of just a mod note considering the circumstances and overall tone of that thread.
If arranging characters of text in a NSFW manner is a warnable offense half the posts on this board are NSFW if you think about it.
Simple was joking. As I read it, anyway.
ISTM he could have made the same joke without the one word. I would not have gone for a suspension over that but he has had prior warnings for other issues and I have not been following him that closely.
I can’t comment on his posting history but the last comment was clearly a joke.
Seems to me to be a simple mistake - reading the post out of context, it’s severely insulting. But I do not read it as intentionally so. As others have said, in context it is clearly a joke in which the poster is using the “negging” techniques the person he quoted from suggested.
That said, I haven’t looked at the guy’s other warnings.
True. As with crucifixion.
Who cares why? It’s still a Good Thing.
Apparently, there were three other warnings that preceded that one. No Idea what they were, but the mods usually don’t ban or suspend people without multiple warnings.
What I want to know is that with good ol’ Simple Linctus out of action for a while, now who will breathlessly chime in on Each. And. Every. Single. mollyfocking thread about illegal drugs, illegal drug use, illegal drug abuse and illegal drug laws to share their precious pearls of wisdom with the hapless SDMB?
Me. I’ll be doing that for the next month. Hang tight.
I’ll help. Keep ya from bogarting.
Another warning for him here. I don’t get this one. What about that is insulting, or failing to follow mod instructions?
And another warning, you can judge for yourself.
Can anyone tell me what the ASCII image represented?
Sometimes good things happen for the wrong reason.
The road to hell is paved… Wait, never mind, in this case you’re right.
Really??? You don’t like the guy so it doesn’t matter if his suspension was justified or not?
Wow, so someone with knowledge and insight about a topic should just shut the hell up?
Shameful.
I really appreciate you, TheChileanBlob for making a stand, a refreshing change from the “we don’t care what’s fair, this is our little clique group”, bullshit.
I had seen and read the post he quoted and noticed he/she was referring to it…however it seemed to me it clearly wasn’t being made in a light-hearted manner, especially with the word “slut” thrown in (which had nothing to do with what was posted and could be read as an insult).
Huh. Seemed like he was just kidding around to me. But whatever. He’ll be back.