Why are people being banned en masse?

You didn’t look closely enough. Two quotes were about you, and the third was about ChromiumGrin.

I’m guessing he was dumped for this thread
** Great Debates> Who Decided that the Dead Must be buried in dirt? **

Not a hot troll topic, but that’s the most controversial thing I saw of his.

If you want to say how fair the mods are, go to that link I posted first above. There’s a lot of dirty laundry being aired. All mods are not cheap shots and innuendos of their own!

:confused: When I typed that it said
“All mods are not equally fair. Some make lots of cheap shots and innuendos of their own!”

Doh, I see this heading to The Pit pretty quick…

Read the emails; respect the intent…

But my point stands. The mods/admins are the ones who keep this place liveable1

Please, please, please…they’re the ones empowered to sweep the carpets. I can’t, and most other posters can’t. It isn’t rule by rumor or popularity.

Not busting your chops, techchick, but the mods/admins are just uber-posters doin’ a thankless job, gratis. Given the heady mix of opinion and personalities around here, weeding out the wily opportunists must be endless.

::sigh::

It’s probably election-dreck overload, so apologies all around. -->blasts Uzi at TV screen at political ad<–

I don’t expect perfection, just reasonably ept administration. Come to think of it, I may be arguing with the wind. But somewhere along the line–and where better than here, battling Ignorance?–generous guidelines should be recognized.

Don’t wanna be a troll-hunter; pitifully grateful,
Veb

Piano,

upon rereading the ATMB thread, all three of the quotes in the OP came directly out of the Pit thread in which I was suspected of being a troll. The blanks in the third quote read “Ogre is NOT OgreFade, unless…”

For clarity, here is the link to the original thread in question.

Veb:

Did I say otherwise? Did I imply otherwise?

Damnit, please run over to The Pit.

I say one thing and I don’t get it…this is MPSIMS for God’s sake. Should I have to be serious with everything I say or do in here?

ChromiumGrin was Mark Serlin, judging by the length and content of the post. Reminds me of this thread, started by one of Serlin’s sockpuppets. I’m guessing someone’s got a hold of some software that analyzes writing style to double-check this guy’s various incarnations, which are obvious enough as it is.

The guy’s been banned for multiple screen names (MarkSerlin, Sentinel, Nitwatch22, NightGirl, FarTreker, Skribbler, Rainbowcsr, and a few others). Banned posters are not allowed to return, even if they don’t break other rules.

Dropzone - Uh uh! No way! She’ll hurt me. :slight_smile: Big, strong, tough Ogre I may be, but I ain’t no fool! This one’s probably heading for the Pit, and I ain’t getting dragged into the muck. I shall post by example.

::Turns snootily away::

:slight_smile:

No.
No fight, because I refuse to take part in it.
I stand by my words, every one. They weren’t intended to be provocative; considerable care was spent on tact.

As far as I am concerned, this discussion has ended.

Veb

piano, Surely there’s nothing in that thread that would warrent action?.

I would imagine that the mods have a box of tricks, to root out evil-reincarnate and similar pests, that they sensibly choose to keep from prying/reverse engineering eyes. I would also image there’s a fair bit of emailship going on behind the scenes, before banishment is proclaimed.

After reading the latest pit posts though, I do feel that as a low counter, a bit like a newly hatched turtle scampering down the beach to the shoreline (read approx 200 posts) before a predator deMembers me.

Keeping uncontroversial

I know all that. I wasn’t confused about it, just seemed to be something to support the OP(original post of this thread).

But don’t count on being out of the woods at 200 posts, little turtle. The crocodiles keep raising the bar.

{Yes, the last person to disagree with his world view, who now is over 250, so the bar will be higher yet the next time it appears.}

Piano is quoting Coldfire from this thread.

If you read the thread you will see that what Coldfire is saying is not what Piano is putting across.

Funny that, she’s usually so on the ball :rolleyes:

Moderator’s Notes: I’m closing this thread right the fuck now. It serves no purpose other than use as a vehicle for unfounded suspicion and unwarranted speculation. Neither of which fights ignorance, only advances it. I also won’t have witch hunts in this forum, which is what this thread is evolving into.

CopperTears and Chromium Grin were indeed the old Mark Serlin come back to haunt us. Lloyd was concrete. As was well known by anybody caring to read their posts. Those two will not be allowed back here under any circumstances. There’s no apology they can make that we’d deem satisfactory. Period.

Another point, and I’m sure most of you are aware of this but, I wanna make it perfectly clear. No one from the mod/admin staff of this board bans or censures anyone on a whim. There is always some discussion between the staff prior to one of us taking an action of that kind. In fact, we take unilateral action only to delete spam and porn links. These are such clear violations of your user agreement that nothing needs to be discussed.

Also, please note, comments on the actions of moderators and the administration of this board belong in the BBQ Pit, nowhere else.

Thank you.
UncleBeer, for the SDMB.