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    Banned Weanling The Lout is on a distinguished road
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    Banning forum contributors

    Jules, can we please see some kind of policy re; banning forum players?

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    Flashing Red
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    I have banned several players over the past week.... for 7 days each. For pot stirring, being aggressive / being intolerable of the views of others, fake names etc. From their recent posts and/or names it is quite evident why they were banned. There have been SEVERAL complaints from members over the past few weeks about a number of posters and the content of their posts.

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    Banned Weanling The Lout is on a distinguished road
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    Tell me flashing red, do they ( the banned) get a chance to appeal this ?

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    Word has it you purchased a new book Lout. "Dummies guide to showing everybody you are a previously banned forum member"

    Step1: Create an obviously fake name
    Step2: Start a thread questioning the banning of forum members

    Success!

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    Banned Weanling The Lout is on a distinguished road
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    Quote Originally Posted by aussiebreno View Post
    Word has it you purchased a new book Lout. "Dummies guide to showing everybody you are a previously banned forum member"

    Step1: Create an obviously fake name
    Step2: Start a thread questioning the banning of forum members

    Success!
    that seems a tad disrespectful to me Aussiebrenno

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    Hi The Lout,
    What Aussiebreno posted was just in good fun, if he was being disrespectful he would have called you a dickhead, but he did not do any such thing

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Lout View Post
    Tell me flashing red, do they ( the banned) get a chance to appeal this ?
    *shrugs* I guess you could e-mail Jules. These bans are only for 7 days to let certain parties cool down....

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Lout View Post
    Jules, can we please see some kind of policy re; banning forum players?
    Sure, the main policy, Mr. Gibson, is to include your real name otherwise you will get banned, soon. It's also advisable to post threads in the correct forum, for instance this should have been posted in the help section, so I'll move it there now.

    Other then that, the other rule is to basically play nice. No personal attacks, accusations you can't back up, and try not to curse. Not that hard.

    Regarding your appeal question... I tend to give people a fair amount of slack, so by the time an appeal is needed it's probably going to be turned down. As Tahn mentioned, many people are banned for 7 days, and in that case you're probably better off just waiting that out. In general mods will be less lenient with newer members, so if your first post if a drug accusation or telling somebody to "piss off" (that one happened recently) then you're likely to get labeled an unsavory character and permanently banned.
    Please read the rules before posting.

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    Banned Weanling The Lout is on a distinguished road
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    Quote Originally Posted by admin View Post
    Sure, the main policy, Mr. Gibson, is to include your real name otherwise you will get banned, soon. It's also advisable to post threads in the correct forum, for instance this should have been posted in the help section, so I'll move it there now.

    Other then that, the other rule is to basically play nice. No personal attacks, accusations you can't back up, and try not to curse. Not that hard.

    Regarding your appeal question... I tend to give people a fair amount of slack, so by the time an appeal is needed it's probably going to be turned down. As Tahn mentioned, many people are banned for 7 days, and in that case you're probably better off just waiting that out. In general mods will be less lenient with newer members, so if your first post if a drug accusation or telling somebody to "piss off" (that one happened recently) then you're likely to get labeled an unsavory character and permanently banned.
    so Jules can you please tell me which post I was banned for? I think I may have been mixed up with someone else.

    Cheers,

    Dan

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