27 renegged on something with me once. He gave me a free pass to ban Dr Z whenever I said go. So I held on to it for a bit until Drz said something particularly nasty about gregorio or something and I pulled the trigger, but the whole site drama was going on about how I “stole the site” and he didn’t honor the ban.
Then bans him anyway. I don’t agree with the modding of that forum which is why I rarely post there anymore.
Yep, me too, same day in fact. “Poor posting” was cited, no examples thereof provided
And Lapka,
You know DZ wasn’t his first account? I don’t know how many times he was Perma banned in the past, but it was at least once.
Certainly not going to happen with all the attention and responses he’s getting.
IDK where I am on that.
It’s okay for someone to start over. Sometimes we hate someone because of their reputation. Take that away and it’s like okay, this poster is not so bad.
But if someone is an awful poster, it is obvious. We don’t need to know they’ve been an awful poster for years and years to see that.
Can someone explain what the theory is on anarchowhatever? Fake bernie bro just stirring shit?
Victoar is sincere I really believe that and just expresses his rage more honestly and less politely than some of the rest of us mixed in with some conspiracy theory shit. He isn’t a troll imo.
It’s even more boring than you can imagine: he’s an internet troll on a forum without moderation.
I like Victoar. Are people calling for his banning???
No
I only mention him because I think he is being unfairly lumped in with what is the far more egregious case.
No, but he’s the second most ignored poster on the site. He’s been very annoying in the primary threads lately and was an example discussed earlier regarding how temp bans can occasionally be useful.
I don’t specifically want to keep him, but I think we should be very reluctant to ban people. If only because it’s really not that effective, they can always come back if they really want.
I think if we’re going to ban him we need to set out exactly why we’re doing it to avoid future types causing a rift between posters, which is after all one of the chief aims of trolls.
Everyone puts him on ignore, he gets bored, leaves. You can never seem to get people to do it, though.
Is there a site-wide Ignore function that can be set globally by admin which doesn’t ban a poster, that we could try for a limited time to convince people that ignoring trolls is a good idea?
Then switch it off and people put him on ignore.
Are there circumstances you would consider warrant a ban wherein a poster takes measures to circumvent the ignore function? I guess that’s the same way as them circumventing a ban, though with the ignore function, unless someone tells you, there’s no way to know for sure you’re on ignore.
Assume he’s reading this thread so he will know.
Also I think we should all be proud that an essentially unmoderated forum on the internet can be this good. That is a major accomplishment even though it isn’t perfect.
It reflects well on almost all of us.
I dunno, maybe? I don’t think there’s anything particulary sacrosanct about the ignore feature.