BigAintIt has been banned. There's no evidence that he/she had any interest in astronomy or spaceflight, but did have an interest in stirring up people's ire.

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Neverfly suspended for two weeks for publicly criticizing another poster here. (Not the first offense.)

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Occams Ghost has been suspended. For the moment he's suspended for two weeks, but I'll be reviewing the actual history here and perhaps modifying the duration. Occams Ghost has been too free with the ad homs, and not very forthcoming with the answering of questions. This after some previous warnings.

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Eric Vaxxine is out for a week for starting a game, and immediately diving into politics. This may seem harsh, but a. he knew he was doing something over the line, as evidenced in his first post, and b. he's been here long enough, and been in trouble before.

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Luxor permanently banned as a sock of a previously banned user.

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Scaramouche has been banned for life, and all of his posts removed, including the two that weren't trollish. If he/she believes that he/she really does possess an interest in astronomy, and is not just interested in insulting everyone else interested in astronomy, he/she can email Fraser or Phil and make the case.

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Toejam permanently banned for inappropriate correspondence with other members.

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Oriel banned for hijacking this Q&A thread with the same ideas he refused to answer questions about on an ATM thread last fall. (Oriel was previous Oriel36 and was banned from the forum before the general amnesty that came with the BA-UT merger.)

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roscoe has been permanently banned for repeated ad homs after repeated warnings along with zero evidence that he has anything positive to contribute.

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ATKINS has a week off for failing to answer direct pertinent questions in the ATM section, as pertains to the Stardust thread. ATKINS has a longish history of this kind of thing, so was not simply given a warning.

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JimJast has been suspended for two days for repeatedly promoting his ATM idea and website in mainstream sections of the forum. There seems to be no way to get him to understand our concerns, or to respond to private messages. So we suspended him to get his attention.

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TheHalcyonYear suspended for two days, for not realising that being warned against implying that another poster has phychological problems is meant seriously.

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TheHalcyonYear has been suspended for seven days.

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Paradox244 has been suspended for a month for posting copyrighted material and obscene language.

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Motor Daddy has been suspended for a week for Rule 13 and Rule 14 violations. On the outside, he appears to be a troll, who's main purpose is to ask people with a science-bent to explain things without making any assumptions to an absurd level (such as the ratio of a circle's diameter and circumference is a constant).

The net effect is that he/she is violating rule 14 (disruptive behavior).
I found this tidbit a little troubling:
At the end of this one week suspension, I invite Motor Daddy to PM me or any of the moderators to explain what his/her intent here is, and give some plausible justification for the behavior so far, or at least express an understanding of why behavior is problematic AND a promise to follow a much less disruptive course from here on.

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tre475 and victor003 banned forever for being a sock puppet to advertise his commercial website.

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Occam's Ghost banned for ad hominems, posting ATM material in non-ATM areas, posting copyrighted material, and publicly criticizing moderators, pretty much all in the last 24 hours, and this after multiple suspensions and several moderator warnings.

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Motor Daddy has been suspended for one month. Following his return from a one week suspension, he immediately violated BAUT Rules by opening a second thread on the same topic in ATM, ignoring outstanding questions in the first thread.

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sbil banned for using the forum to advertise an ATM website while refusing to defend the claims made on the website. The corresponding thread has been removed.

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infoferret was a sockpuppet. The main thread she/he started has been removed.

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Schutzstaffeln-SS and Paul Leeks banned as sock puppets.

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Eightyape is banned for basically self-destructing in his first four posts.

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tommac has been suspended for two days.
Hopefully, when he gets back, he'll be over his curiosity about how people feel about dumb people. The suspension is for trolling.

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