Let me remind you of something-the “C” in my name is capitalized.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Czarcasm
Sorry, I just cut and pasted from sam’s post.
Good to know how you feel, there, sam.
Even though the content may not always be what you’re looking for, it is the reason why people stay.
At least mine don’t stink.
People stay here for all sorts of reasons but I would venture to say few of them come for the spam.
Gee, thanks.
I am sure a few come for the goofy youtube links in MPSIMS, which this seems a lot more like than spam.
OK, I did this. What the hell are you talking about? He has several posts on the Giraffe Boards. I looked at a handful, and he only linked to a YouTube vid in one of them, and it was relevant to the thread. He seems like a legit poster to me.
Of course, this post probably qualifies as just one more worthless piece of shit in your opinion, but you told us to go look at his posts over there, so I did, and I have no idea why you think his Giraffe Board posts indicate that he is some kind of spammer. Spammers post links to their spam sites and then disappear. They don’t hang around posting in music threads and “threadkiller” threads and “random stuff I want to talk about today” threads.
I thought it was a humorous reference to Sturgeon’s Law.
Huh. I’m familiar with Sturgeon’s Law and did not get that from samclem’s post in the slightest, although to be fair his posts in this thread have been kind of rambly and hard to follow.
I note that this guy didn’t bother to write and ask why he was banned – instead he goes to another board and uses his banning as a teeing-off point looking to generate . . . I dunno, sympathy? Credibility? That is not the behavior of someone who wants to be a member of the Straight Dope community but looks an awful lot like someone who wants to play “let’s you and him fight.”
Yes, if we ban someone unfairly and they bring it to our attention we can reverse it. Sometimes all it takes is a bit of clarification on all sides and things can be copacetic. On the other hand, we remove spammers from this board all day long and something like 99.9% of them don’t inquire why they got removed because they know damn well how and why.
This board is open to anyone who bothers to check in, read a little, and make themselves part of the community. There’s no evidence this guy did that any of that; he had his own agenda. We’re not obliged to support it.
If I were a regular poster on another message board and a friend convinced me to come try out this SDMB place, and then I got banned after my first post here, I think it would be a pretty reasonable reaction for me to go back to the original message board and post about how, “Yo, I just got banned after my first post over there.”
I probably would not bother to write the admins and ask about my banning, because getting banned right out of the gate like that would make me feel like this was not the kind of place I wanted to hang out at.
This is irking me, btw, not because I feel like specifically defending the bannee in this case, but because I feel like in general we should be working to get new members here and make them feel welcome, and not drive off newbies just because they posted a YouTube link in their first post here. I mean, you guys aren’t robots; you can tell the difference between someone who’s posting a Viagra link and someone who’s posting a link to a funny song they made about joining a message board, right? Nobody banned lobstermobster back when she was linking to Microsoft Paint pictures that she made.
(shhhhhhhh…I think someone snuck a big-boy drink off of the picnic table when nobody was looking.)
The devil, you say.
No kidding, If the fact that he didn’t write an email to discuss how he could make amends is how the mods are retroactively justifying the “spam” call, it’s rather weak. As I said upthread “I think the first impression you guys gave would make most people welcome a banning.”
Welcome to your Tuesday movie matinee. This afternoon’s feature is CarnalK starring in “I Was A Fugitive From A Message Board.”
Huh?
This reminds me of an article I read somewhere once about a phenomenon that affects many police officers, who gradually lose their social ties with everyone except fellow cops and come to instinctively view all civilians as “scumbags,” or at least potential scumbags. A troubling mindset that suggests the need for a good long vacation, no?
Actually, reading that convinced me that he is not a spammer.
So is the banning justified now because he didn’t want strongly enough to be a proper member of this community, or because he was spam?
If you’re going to spam us, be nice and provide some ponzu and daikon, so we can at least enjoy some spam tataki.
It isn’t at all a subtle board convention to, at a bare minimum, to frown upon the practice of using someone else’s board as a venue for publicizing your shit.