As many of you know, the Straight Dope Message Board today revoked the posting privileges of the (now former) member known as Jack Dean Tyler.
A few minutes ago, the message board staff received an email from an address associated with that former member which we believe contained a virus of some sort.
We’re still trying to sort things out to figure out exactly what is going on, but for now, please exercise caution in opening emails from sources not familiar to you. As we are able to share more, we will update you.
Please bump this thread from time to time to keep it near the top of the page until we can get the “announcement” function working for us. Thank you.
None that I’ve seen, Esprix. From what I’ve heard from others it was a case of “Poster X complains via email about Poster Y. Brief exchange, things are looked into, and poster Y is banned”.
Mods’ll probably clear things up somewhat if you email them, I’d guess.
Hey, can you guys please arrange for criminal prosecution of that person? If a certain person sends you a virus on purpose, I would imagine that person would be breaking some kind of law or another.
Now THAT would be funny.
The certain person we are talking about is just about the supreme ruler of the troll kingdom. I know that Serlinal was insane and set the standard for trolls, but THIS person smashed past any previous standards. I know that you moderators have reached a consensus that talking about why certain people are banned, but I believe that in this case, a formal press release is warranted.
