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Post by LunarOrbit on Jul 25, 2005 22:55:43 GMT -4
The following users have been banned:
unknown - Rude behaviour, trolling. pierre1985 - Rude behaviour, trolling, alias of "unknown". wildbill - alias of "unknown".
bush - alias of xoox/oxxo (banned in the old forum)
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Post by jaydeehess on Aug 6, 2005 0:53:31 GMT -4
Are these(is this) the only banning so far in the new forum?
Not bad so far then. unknown/pierre1985/wildbill or xoox/oxxo are a type that will always be an occasional problem here and elsewhere. Those with a tenuous grasp of the reality we experience will confound any logical discussion.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Aug 6, 2005 2:10:58 GMT -4
Actually, there was one other ban that I forgot to add to the list. "bush" was a sockpuppet for xoox.
So, yeah, not too bad... there have been four bans but it's really only two people. It's possible that xoox is "unknown", but I'm not 100% sure of that.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Aug 6, 2005 5:42:07 GMT -4
Nah, xoox was sort of legible outside of his poetry
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Post by LunarOrbit on Nov 28, 2005 12:31:42 GMT -4
Margamatix has been banned after he posted images yesterday of a man who had been executed in an electric chair. The images violated the Proboards Terms of Service which state:
Violations of the Proboards TOS are unacceptable as it puts the entire forum at risk of being shut down. I will not allow behaviour like that here.
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Post by RAF on Nov 28, 2005 13:13:03 GMT -4
Margamatix has been banned after he posted images yesterday of a man who had been executed in an electric chair. Yeah, that was pretty sick wasn't it. I can't help but wonder why he would think it was a good idea to post something like that.
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Post by gwiz on Nov 28, 2005 13:15:38 GMT -4
As I've been away a few days, I can't imagine why the picture was the clinching evidence for the Apollo hoax that got him banned.
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Post by piper on Nov 28, 2005 13:34:06 GMT -4
Seems pretty harsh to me, rather than just asking for an edit or deleting the offensive image and giving a warning. So you consider the (legal) death penalty to be vulgar and obscene? I am certain the people over at the "Pro Death Penalty" Proboards discussion forum ( prodp.proboards47.com/) would probably disagree with the reason given for this banning. I guess it's easier to feel comfortable with our beliefs when there are fewer dissenters allowed to voice their opinions.
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Post by RAF on Nov 28, 2005 13:50:10 GMT -4
Seems pretty harsh to me, rather than just asking for an edit or deleting the offensive image and giving a warning. Well, it wasn't your call to make now was it. Not particularly...just close up pictures of DEAD PEOPLE. You seem to be "certain" of a lot of things without any evidence whatsoever...why is that? If "feeling comfortable" were the only criteria, then margamatix would have been GONE a long time ago.
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Post by piper on Nov 28, 2005 14:00:08 GMT -4
Well not having seen the post I can't really say know how offensive it was, but it seems it has been deleted now. I have no problem with that at all.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Nov 28, 2005 14:00:55 GMT -4
The simple fact of the matter is that if I hadn't banned him then Proboards would have, and if it came down to them having to take action then they probably would have shut the whole forum down. I would not be at all surprised if that is exactly what Margamatix wanted.
I don't mind if people discuss the death penalty, but posting gruesome images of someone who is dead is offensive to many people and it is not appropriate for a public forum that children might enter.
Margamatix has practically been begging to be banned almost ever since he joined. This latest incident was just another attempt to provoke me... this time it worked. He's gone.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Nov 28, 2005 14:01:58 GMT -4
Well not having seen the post I can't really say know how offensive it was, but it seems it has been deleted now. I have no problem with that at all. It is not deleted, it has been moved to a private section of the forum that only I can access. I'm saving it just incase the Proboards staff needs to see it.
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Al Johnston
"Cheer up!" they said, "It could be worse!" So I did, and it was.
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Post by Al Johnston on Nov 28, 2005 15:23:31 GMT -4
Proboards are ruthless when it comes to handling breaches of their TOS: they wipe the whole board; lock, stock and barrel, and don't waste any time discussing it. Lunar Orbit is quite right in taking action to protect this forum from Margamatix foolishness.
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ghost
Mercury
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Post by ghost on Nov 28, 2005 18:36:10 GMT -4
Utter nonsense, I posted the message in the general discussion thread in a debate as to whether electrocution causes pain, the images came from the Florida Supreme Court's own website.
The photographs are in the public domain and the post did not come within a million miles of breaching ProBoard rules.
If electrocution is "vulgar" or "obscene", then you would be better off taking it up with the State of Florida.
Anybody wishing to view the images need only search Google for "Allan Davis electric chair"
Margamatix.
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politik
Venus
on a crusade against ignorance
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Post by politik on Nov 28, 2005 19:12:38 GMT -4
Porn is in the public domain. Does not mean someone out there will not think it is vulgar or obscene to them.
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