I’m assuming he was a sock. Correct?
So he’s in the stocks then?
Which afford an excellent view of the injustice inherant in the system. Help, help, he’s being oppressed!
He’s been suspended for 48 hours so the staff can discuss what, if anything, we want to do. (If the rest of the staff tells me I’m being an idiot I’ll reverse the suspension, but I don’t expect that.) I advised him over and over to try to get used to the board instead of just whining about everything, but I guess that is not his style. We take lots of comments and sometimes heated complaints from users, but we’re not here to provide a forum for people who show up just to complain about the board. If it’s that terrible, there’s a whole internet out there.
Ahh, but has he actually violated rules, or is it just because he’s kind of retarded (or at least the wrong kind of retarded)?
I’m not a big fan of his or anything, but on the other hand I am even less of a fan of fuzzy “rules” that equate to “We don’t like you”.
This isn’t criticism, by the way (unless of course he’s being on the road to being banned because “you don’t like him”). It’s a request for clarification and predictability.
I think posting on the SDMB just to complain is being a jerk.
Add some value and then complain? In my experience the staff will cheerfully listen as you have your say…over and over and over. But just hang around to get your bitch on? Whatever, you should go play someplace else.
How about ~259 counts of being a jerk?
It’s interesting that his post count is now shown. I’m seeing overtones of Project Mayhem here, “In suspension, a guest of the SDMB has a post count.”
Like I said above, I don’t think we have to provide a forum for people who mostly want to say that this forum sucks. It doesn’t come up very often but we’ve enforced that policy in the past. He’d been advised by me and by others (posters and mods) to try to acclimate to the SDMB and get a feel for things instead of assuming he knew what was going on. That hasn’t happened. If you think this place is like a repressive Puritan witch hunt, why would you want to post here?
Can we at least provide a forum for people to say that it sucks that we don’t provide a forum for people who just want to say that this forum sucks? Because I would like to post in such a forum.
What if that sucked?
Straight Dope Registration Agreement
Note that we do not often go to this place – we’d rather work things out and counsel people when we can – but some do not play well with others, won’t listen, won’t change.
If all you’re going to do here is complain, this is not the place for you. And why would you want to be here anyway if you’re not enjoying the experience? Life’s too short, the internet is full of other places that might be more to your liking. And if you not enjoying it is making other people not enjoy it, then for sure we have a problem. A problem with only one solution.
Yes Brain, but how are you going to give him a lobotomy from way over there?
And a **final solution **at that 
Retarded is one of those words that you youngsters use rather indiscriminately these days. It’s so retarded say my kids some time. I try to counsel them to not use that term . But, usually to no avail.
Think pink-y, do ya?
Learn something new every day if you’re not careful.
After further discussion, Silverstreak Wonder has been banned permanently for the simple and elegant reasons explained in this thread.
Can’t we ever keep just one? 
CMC fnord!
We can’t because then everyone would want one.