Actually, they have an agreement with a post mod whereby they ship them off to a little corner of the internet where they can play all by themselves unmolested by logic and critical thinking. They even provide in-house entertainment for them with a resident marsupial.
Senegoid, I always like your approach to posts, but that’s fucked up–the banter was going along swimmingly and then that extraordinary brutal and iconic moment.
Cement shoes off a dock, maybe.
I believe they are generally doomed to walk at night and fast all day in an overheated room. The mods don’t really let them go into it, because people get all bent out of shape and get the shivers and go bug-eyed. It’d make your hair stand on end.
Once I was having dinner with our Tubadiva and I asked her the very same question. She told me it wasn’t something moderators or admins talked about. Then she changed the subject and asked me how I was enjoying the brats.
At least he didn’t post a link to the video.
“Dude! We’re getting the banned back together!”
The first stage is anger, followed by a slow downward spiral into alcoholism, depravity and eventual madness and frequently suicide.
Are you talking about rock bands, or banned users? I can’t really tell.
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Yes, it’s a very good life! Isn’t it?
These assertions have very little basis.
I can recall offhand at least one banned poster who successfully returned and had a lengthy career here without getting caught. When the board went to PTP he decided not to sign up (apparently this would have revealed his identity), and posted a thread revealing his former username.
But there could be any number of other people who have done the same. The fact that the moderators don’t know about the people they haven’t caught is a truism.
F-P, I believe you just reiterated my point in an attempt to clarify. I may have been wrong about the length of time, and that he outed himself, but the general point of my comment stands.
How about if a member in good standing were to ask for moderator approval in advance to create a sock account and was willing to pay the additional membership fee?
Take, for example, someone like me. Generally, I don’t like to use vulgar language and I prefer to discuss only high-brow subject matter. I have Tibby’s reputation to maintain and I don’t want it sullied.
But, every so often, I’d like to let my hair down and cavort with the average SDMB riff-raff. However, I stifle myself because I don’t want to tarnish my sterling online character. Unfortunately, the board loses out because of all the plentiful, pithy posts I could have submitted, but didn’t, because I don’t let Tibby’s fur down. It’s a pity.
I’m a high self-monitor, as I suspect many of you are, too.
Behaving differently to different audiences is the way we all act IRL, so why should the SDMB be any different? You wouldn’t give a wedgie to your grandma, or kiss your buddies on the cheek, would you (well, maybe some of you would)? Think of GQ as your professor, GD as your spouse, CS as your aunt, IMHO as your grandparent, MPSIMS as your sibling, The Pit as your ex-spouse and ATMB as your psychiatrist.
No deception: your alter ego sock would be required to be identified as such. Example: Good Tibby/Bad Tibby; Serious Chronos/Wacky Chronos; Advocate Bricker/Devil’s Advocate Bricker…One’s sock could always be banned or put on ignore if he isn’t much liked, while maintaining the integrity of original you.
I think this would add a new dimension to the boards while also adding a new revenue stream. It should be instituted immediately.
What exactly are you implying? My wife said she took my parents to a lovely farm in Upstate New York to frolic about. She did…didn’t she?
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Been asked for multiple times before. Not gonna happen.
Of course she did. And they’re having a wonderful time there with lots of new friends. :rolleyes:
Keyword “one”. I’m sure there have been or are others, but just as your memory allows you to recall at least one exception to the point, mine recalls at least 100-200 times banned members have tried to come back but were caught in the last year alone.
So no, those assertions don’t have very little basis, it’s the majority. What you speak of are the exceptions.
May I suggest a Giraffe style ‘Box’ here on the SDMB where banned posters can at least be marginally be part of the larger community. The board would be better having some of those banned posters back. Or perhaps ban for four years?
Nice detective work, mods. Do you go to school for that?
I disagree. THIS board would be the worse for having most of the banned back, whether in a box or not. Carry them out in a box. That I can get behind.