Why the fuck have I been dragged into a conversation again?
You have to be a great big giant asshole for me to ban you.
Libman, Nathyn, LCPLIC, EricfromMichigan, that sort of thing.
Things that will get me to ban you are -
1. Harassing another member incessantly by name. One squabble every now and then doesn't count, either. It's the constant attacks that matter.
2. Threatening specific people. (Users or not.)
3. Spamming.
4. Continuously trolling, as defined by me. That means starting shit over and over again and wasting people's time with dumbfuck threads, necroing without any clear purpose, and deliberately antagonizing people. I don't include posts that are obviously absurd unless they are threats, so Richard gets a pass.
I can guarantee that the average user here doesn't pay as close attention as myself or the other mods to what sort of things certain people do, so their opinion on what is and isn't a long enough string of assholish behavior doesn't hold as much weight AFAIAC.
When someone like Ecolitan, who I have no problem with, logs in once a week or less and sees someone who used to be pretty cool years ago (Like Libman) getting reamed out like a motherfucker, then his viewpoint is a little clouded by the lack of up to date information.
Someone like anarchir who is obviously younger and likes watching bullshit get stirred up has their own motives. Anarchir doesn't like taking direct shots but supports people who do. Well that's fine. I've never said a mean word to the kid and I won't until he gets nasty with me.
mrapplecastle, back in the day, was almost always pretty cool toward me and I don't understand why he's got a giant attitude now. Bums me out and it seems to be directly related to moderation changes on the BBS, which is what, IIRC, made him leave in the first place, to go make that other forum that didn't last long.
All ya'll should just mellow the fuck out. Bonerjoe is cool and chucking shit at him is lame. It's the same shit that happened to me when I became a mod and thankfully in his case he doesn't have to just suck it up and take it.
I was reported to Ian by some asshole users several times for doing absolutely nothing other than tell people to stop acting like assholes, leaving Ian and I to have a bunch of bullshit exchanges where I had to explain myself. The biggest benefit of the new changes is that it seems like I won't have to deal with that sort of bullshit anymore.
Now quit fucking dragging me into shit I have nothing to do with, for fuck's sake.