BAUT banned/suspended posters log

[HenrikOlsen]

samkent suspended for a week for ad-homs here.

[Tinaa]

Originally Posted by antoniseb

IoNsmasher was a sock puppet. I have removed all of his/her posts, including the entire Red Spot Jnr thread. Some of IoNsmasher's other posts may have left some dangling content for other more responsible members (Floating Lunar Dust, Lightning on Venus, etc). Sorry for any confusion this may cause.

Add Wonlong to the sockpuppet list.

[antoniseb]

folkhemmet has been suspended for a week for continued ad homs (mostly against Jerry). Let's be clear that folkhemmet makes very valuable contributions here, and we appreciate the debunking folkhemmet does and added insight and clarity to other threads. We have rules about civility, and even great members can only be cut just so much slack.

[antoniseb]

Wear Protection! was suspended for two days for foul language. For other users this new, there might just have been a warning, but his/her high volume of posts, and other more general complaints from the membership about behavior have resulted in a suspension.

Post edit: This suspension has been converted to permanent ban for sock puppetry.

[antoniseb]

crosscountry is suspended for a day for political posting.

[ToSeek]

Motor Daddy permanently banned for repeatedly hijacking threads to promote his own ATM ideas. He had previously been suspended twice for the same behavior.

[antoniseb]

DrRocket is taking a week off for an ad hom.

[HenrikOlsen]

volantis suspended for a week for namecalling in this and other posts.

[HenrikOlsen]

JimJast suspended for a week for starting a Q&A thread to promote his ATM idea, despite being warned against ATM'ing in Q&A before.

[antoniseb]

leokor is out for a month, for posting ATM material (EU) in mainstream sections of the forum (especially Q&A) after a warning. Some of leokor's posts have been removed. If he/she returns, very little allowance will be given judging repeat offenses.

[Tinaa]

Dyerwolf banned for one day
Fixed
Regarding banning:

[antoniseb]

RussT suspended for two weeks for posting ATM in a mainstream thread and also hijacking that mainstream thread. It has been a while since his last previous warning.

[antoniseb]

JimJast has been banned for life for posting ATM in a mainstream thread and also hijacking that mainstream thread. This has been his Constant MO, in spite of numerous warnings.

[antoniseb]

captain swoop and tommac have both been suspended for four days. They were bickering with each other. CS was using inappropriate rhetorical techniques to try and undermine tm and tm responded by making an obscene joke out of cs's handle.

Neither activity is supportive of good discussions. It is especially important in the ATM and CT sections to be aware that adversarial relationships should not be made personal.

[antoniseb]

publiusr has been suspended for a day. For whatever reason, he/she was in a mood to do a lot of thread bumping with little added meaning to the thread. This suspension is not so much a punishment, as an attempt to prevent further thread bumping while publiusr gets into a different frame of mind.

[antoniseb]

tommac came back as sockpuppet newbietuesday, and both have been banned for life.

There are some ATM supporters on other sites who wear it as a badge of honor that they have been banned on more mainstream forums. tommac has earned that badge here very cheaply; not by confounding anyone to the point of anger with his thought out ATM view (he's bright, and was appreciated here), but simply by breaking one of our unforgivable rules.

I am sad about this one.

[antoniseb]

777 geek is out for two days, for a bit of politics, and some (implied) bad language. Personally, I don't think a middle schooler would have figured out what nightsoil suggests, but you have to draw the line somewhere.

While we're at it Daffy is out for a day for falling into 777 geek's trap and talking politics. (I deleted his post).

The thread has been closed.

[antoniseb]

Delvo has been banned for life for insulting people... most recently for dissing a geeky tattoo. It is his long history of insults that finished him off, not the severity of this one.

Post edit:
Other moderators have pointed out that seven months of good behavior are worth something, so Delvo's time off is reduced from forever to two weeks.

[antoniseb]

Originally Posted by antoniseb

777 geek is out for two days, for a bit of politics, and some (implied) bad language. Personally, I don't think a middle schooler would have figured out what nightsoil suggests, but you have to draw the line somewhere.

While we're at it Daffy is out for a day for falling into 777 geek's trap and talking politics. (I deleted his post).

The thread has been closed.

Post edit: 777 Geek has been exonerated in this. Sadly we don't give time-served credit for future offenses, but hopefully he'll accept our apologies.

[antoniseb]

fearless has been banned for life as a sock-puppet of a previously banned member. Unfortunately there were many posts replying to him. I removed most posts by fearless, but left the replies.

[ToSeek]

folkhemmet permanently banned for personal attacks (fourth offense) and politics (second offense) in a post that's been removed.

[antoniseb]

Paul Leeks is suspended for a day for his Adam & Eve Naval thread. Thanks to the several members who tried to keep the discussion from being religious.

[antoniseb]

Drunk Vegan is suspended for two days for his thread on God being a bad writer.
It was less whimsical than Paul Leeks offense, so I gave him two days off not one.

[antoniseb]

Cruiser Dude was a sock puppet. I removed his 11 posts, but some quoting of him was done in other posts, which I've let stand.

[antoniseb]

undidly has been suspended for a day. This may be shortened, or lengthened after we assess the situation. For now he/she is suspended to prevent further damage while we sort some things out.

Post edit: After looking it over, ToSeek created a new thread in ATM for undidly's model, and we ended the suspension after a few hours, giving undidly a warning for his first offense.

[antoniseb]

Paul Leeks has been suspended for a month. I suspect he is trying to get banned for life. If not, he has been consciously breaking the rules around here for some purpose.

[ToSeek]

Zephir permanently banned. He explicitly indicated his lack of respect for both our rules and our moderators.

[antoniseb]

rtomes has been banned for life for making a legal threat in a post.

[antoniseb]

RalOfTyr has been banned for life for abbreviated profanity. This is on top of a longish recent record of disregard for forum rules.

Reduced to two weeks following moderator discussion. - ToSeek

[antoniseb]

Zanthius has been given a day off for bad behavior.

The main complaint is that he's been bashing mainstream cosmology but completely dodging answering any questions posed to him.