Benned!

[Martyr]

I hope this isn't too touchy of a subject, but uh, well, I just saw Sapphire Star banned.

In the recent times I've been here, I haven't noticed anything banworthy from Sapph, but whatever. I don't really care about Sapph in particular.
I have taken an interest in all the banned users around, because bannings seem to be very prevalent recently. I mean, I'm seeing pinmk in tons of threads. And I can't tell from their recent posts, why they would have been banned for saying anything.

So... What's the conspiracy? Are they requesting bans? Am I not digging deep enough; do bans take a week or so to enact?

Anybody else notice this and have concerns about spontaneous and unprecedented (or at least unexpected) banning?

[NeoCracker]

Bannings are fun

[Rye]

I think it's because she was a modwhore?

[Martyr]

Bannings are fun

Ah, so it's simply the result of the age old primal joy that comes from the rejection, humiliation and eventual destruction of others.

[Agent Proto]

I think it's because she was a modwhore?

If that's true, why am I not banned?

[Yamaneko]

We're working on it.

[NeoCracker]

I think it's because she was a modwhore?

If that's true, why am I not banned?

You have a pheonix Wright Avatar.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

We never ban people without fair warning unless they post pornography or register with the sole intent to spam people's Private Messages with advertisements. In every other case, we always provide members with highly visible notice of their impending punishment, so it's all on them if they choose to persist in their bad behavior and get banned.

The specific member in question had a long history of awfully abrasive and argumentative posts--what the girls call flaming.

[NeoCracker]

We never ban people without fair warning unless they post pornography or register with the sole intent to spam people's Private Messages with advertisements. In every other case, we always provide members with highly visible notice of their impending punishment, so it's all on them if they choose to persist in their bad behavior and get banned.

The specific member in question had a long history of awfully abrasive and argumentative posts--what the girls call flaming.

And we all know the girls are right.

[Cruise Control]

Well, duh. It's imposible for women to be wrong. Thats what mom said anyway.

What about Skarr?

[Vincent, Thunder God]

I am rather concerned. It seems lots of good people get banned. Chances are, though, that there are good reasons for it (like kishi mentioned with Sapphire Star) that we just haven't noticed.

[Rostum]

Stop banning all the cool people.

[Leeza]

For a lot of the bans you will never know why the person has been banned just by trying to read through their recent posts because if the posts are bad enough to get banned over, they are usually removed from public view. That is why it might seem that they were banned for no apparent reason.

[Fire_Emblem776]

Stop banning all the cool people.

Your not alone, i miss a lot of people. DMKA, Ansem, Cloud9, Dignified Pauper,..

[fire_of_avalon]

Also, a lot of people will make really terrible posts and do other terrible things for a while and get themselves bumped up to Final Warning status. When this happens a lot of people make nice for a while, but once you're already there you're pretty much sunk unless you make quite an impressive turn around.

I really don't like to ban people. I make a lot of jokes about it, but when it comes right down to it I'd rather someone else handle the actual banning. Personally, I just want everyone to be nice and happy.