I just found out that one can get banned for it. I’ve never heard of such a thing, What is it?
Note: This is NOT one of those threads to find out what the line is so that I can tiptoe right up to it and go ‘Neener Neener’. I’m genuinely curious.
Could you provide a link, since I’m not finding any recent references to “audition posting” on a board search?
Otherwise, I’m assuming you may be referring to this incident. That particular post was basically spam, and that’s what he was banned for, not for “audition posting.”
Sorry, that’s not very helpful. Who received that message? When was it received?
I’m not even finding any Moderator Warnings for “audition posting.”
After checking with the other moderators, that was indeed the message sent to the poster involved after the incident mentioned in my link. He posted a thread that was basically just an effort to get people to listen to his drumming on Youtube. He was banned for spamming. In the thread he mentioned he was “auditioning” for the Board, hence the reference in the banning notice.
Perhaps I’ve been misled; I’ll check.
There may be some confusion here between “auditioning for the board” and posting a link to what may be a musical audition. But as I said, if it is the same poster he was basically banned for spamming, however it was referred to in the message.
over in that other thread
What do you mean “mainly posted to link to his drumming”? How many times did he do it?
I’ve got to say, seems like an incredibly wide definition of “spam”. Didn’t seem he was actively promoting sales or directing people to some personal website.
I’ve been waiting for the ‘why was so-and-so banned?’ thread.
Did you see the original thread? If not you seem to be doing a bit of speculation on what it consisted of.
Sam didn’t say that the guy “mainly posted to link to his drumming”; he said that “his thread … was mainly posted to link to his drumming.” The OP consisted of little more than the link to youtube; the guy didn’t post the link multiple times.
While we sometimes may allow this sort of thing by established posters (providing permission is requested beforehand), coming here mainly just to post a link to promote yourself (for whatever reason) isn’t acceptable.
From the Registration Agreement:
Well I saw the original thread, and viewed the youtube video, which was a humorous song about joining a message board. Humor having been lost here a long time ago, I am not surprised by the banning. But it was out of line both from the standpoint of the rules and as a business decision. Some spammers are quite obvious, this non-spammer was not and should have been given a little more rope. There is no time clock ticking that requires an instantanous clearing of spammers, unless they are obviously linking to crap.
I really think that whomever made the ultimate decision on this had their head up their ass this time. To be so quick to reject new customers is quite amazing. This banning was wrong.
I wonder if the people who actually pay the bills here even pay attention to how the board is run. Frequent money making ideas proposed by Ed should include the possibility of encouraging new customers.
I know it’s a crazy concept for the SDMB.
The guy was trying to get hits for his link. He’s done it on other boards. He’s not interested in participating on a board, other than to get hits. That’s a spammer, whether or not he’s making money from the hits he gets.
So you searched his posting history on other boards and found all he was doing was linking a youtube vid (“his” link)? Because a quick search by myself did not show that. Besides, it’s not a malware-ridden site selling fake viagra. It was a guy who apparently likes to make goofy music.
I think I’ll stand by my judgment that this was a very liberal and grumpy definition of spam.
Did you listen to the song? It was about joining a message board, ffs.
eta: not that I’m arguing that you should reverse the ruling. I think the first impression you guys gave would make most people welcome a banning.
How long are you sentenced to be here? Is there any hope for parole?
Judging by chacoguy’s having a screenshot of the ban message, I’m suspecting that he knows the perpetrator (which makes it seem questionable that it was really a spammer).
Complaining about how a board is run does not have anything to do with enjoying the boards themselves. The mods overinflate their importance–they don’t provide most of the content, and the content is the reason why people stay.
How stupid would it have been if I’d quit over your moderating decision against me? Not only were you one guy who was bugging me, but you were going to stop being a mod pretty soon afterward.
Quitting a board of over 6000 people because maybe 10 of them do something you don’t like? That would be absolutely stupid.
Let me try to add some insight to this matter. A timeline may help.
A person name Thrustin. registered and posted at about 3:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time(US) on 03 July 2010. That’s the middle of the night for many moderators. Sorry about that.
I’m assuming that there was a “report this post” directed to the moderators in MPSIMS.
At some point the next morning, our newest moderator Spectre of Pithecanthropus, must have been alerted to the post and both removed the post and the poster from the Board. He didn’t exactly do what long time moderators do—move the thread to moderation and disappear the poster. He disappeared the poster, but let’s say, for arguments sake, he put the post in limbo. Yeah, we have a limbo and a purgatory here. He’s new, remember? 
Our own beloved Chefguy started the controversy [yeah! I’m looking at you, big guy :D] by starting a thread asking what happened to Thrustin.
Which way did he go? - About This Message Board - Straight Dope Message Board This would have been at 3:51PM(EDT) 03 July 2010.
So then, some of the older mod-hands(as opposed to man-hands] started to investigate. It was made a bit more complicated because specs didn’t remove the thread in the usual manner. He didn’t screw up, he just flummoxed us. [Always wanted to use that term]
From this point on, the main import is that other mods got involved.
I was probably in the forefront. I’m up early, got on it, found out the guy had been banned from a music board, to which he had been a long time poster, for being a troll. Twice.
So, I didn’t think twice about his being an asset to this Board. Maybe a bad business decision, but, meh. If I ban 50 people unjustly, then I’m a fuck-up.
If you bother to go to his posts, under his same name “Thrustin” on www.giraffeboards.com, then you can judge for yourself if he was truly just innocently posting a youtube vid here.
Please, please, get over yourself.
The MODS here don’t “overinflate their importance”. Most of them try to downplay it. They really, really do.
MOST of the posters here provide “content” that is “shit.” Most of the post are “shit.” Worthless. We’re always grateful for posters who provide intelligent, well thought-out, researched, vetted information. That’s what we’re looking for. But that sure ain’t most of the posts here.
Now, if you have a bone to pick with czarcasm, then go pick his bones. But don’t hijack this one.
You should probably remind czarcasm of that as well in regards to me.
I think if people actually do that they will indeed see he was just posting “innocently”.
Don’t make us turn this thread around.