neilzero has been suspended for two days for going *way* over the line with political discourse, essentially equating any government effort to curb global warming as a fascist activity. This was in the "Climate Change 2007" thread.

Normally someone would get a much longer suspension for this post, but neilzero has been a generally good citizen (if a bit hot-headed) on many fronts.

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StewartSummers has been suspended for a week for trolling and harassing moderators. He shares a URL with several banned spammers, but I think that is a coincidence.

Presuming he is a juvenile, and simply doesn't know better, I'm giving him one chance to clean up his act after the suspension.

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Damburger doesn't hold back with his opinions, and often that is a good thing. In this case however, he posted something politically very provocative, and very insulting to some subset of British nationals (and it's weeks after Guy Fawkes Day!). He has some previous warnings, and now he's getting suspended for a week.

Post edit: I added some subset of to the above, based on feedback that this was not offensive to all, and especially not to Dambuger himself, who is a British national.

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New member Charliebad has been banned for life, for abusive language. The final post was removed.

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Very long time member Joe Durnavich has been suspended for one day, for a collective ad hom, and posting inflammatory remarks on the subject of climate change. Had this been his first post, he'd have been banned for life as a troll.

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Fraunkensteen permanently banned for long homophobic rant.
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MattMarriott is suspended for seven days for opening a second thread on the same topic w/o addressing open issues.

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idav has been suspended for a week, for violating our politics rule, and general rudeness.

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Dies Irae has been banned for life. It is possible that this ban could be lifted if he/she emails Fraser or Phil and makes a good case that he/she has not simply been trying to be a rule-breaking provocative troll.

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Neverfly suspended for a week for Ad Homs.

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JIM WALKER has been banned for life. A quick review of his/her nine posts reveals that this member intended nothing more than to be a provocative smart mouth troll.

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upriver, mgmirkin, and iantresman have all been suspended for one year for violations of rules 6, 11, and 14 as part of a coordinated effort to promote a specific ATM idea, in the mainstream section of the forum.

This particular idea has already been covered in detail in the ATM section, and the main protagonists refuse, or are unable to supply any supporting math when faced with any questions or criticism.

Post Edit: based on email conversation, I now believe that iantresman was not part of the coordinated effort, and am lifting his suspension.

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Michael Noonan suspended for a week for backdooring ATM ideas into Q&A.

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a_vision banned for a week for several rules violation including but not limited to these: 2. Civility and Decorum, 3. Language, and 13. Alternative Concepts and Conspiracy Theories.

So what will we see in 2012?

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R.A.F. banned for attacking a poster instead of his ideas, after being told officially that next time would result in permanent banning.

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Predictionsarchive is supended for six months for a major violation of Rule 11 in this thread.

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Doodler is suspended for a week for multiple ad homs in this post.

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CDavidParsons was banned as a spamming troll. He was on to promote a series of Intelligent Design, anti-science books.

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SLF:JAQ SFDJS permanently banned for trolling and for declining to follow moderator instructions.

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Werfer was banned for being a sock puppet of a previously banned member. His/her most recent thread was removed.

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RussT suspended for a week for providing an ATM response to a question in this Q&A thread.

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BigToe was banned as a sock-puppet of a previously banned member. I also removed his posts.

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