Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<RT, the part you missed was the part where Jon tried to write back in just to say "okay, goodbye everyone. here's my email". The management did erase that, over and over, and it became a very frustrating situation for him (you can perhaps imagine how annoying that might be?).>> I certainly understand your concern, but I think there were two pretty good reasons for it: 1) When you are banned you are banned. You are not allowed one message to say goodbye (I believe you are allowed one email to a lawyer though.) Jon might have been completely civil in his goodbye, but it is something the Admin doesn't want to take a chance on. Let's face it, when you are mad and know you have nothing to lose because you are already banned you could probably produce some pretty explosive posts. 2) I'm sure Admin and Doobie would prefer to avoid all the drama that is going on here. To allow a person to announce they have been banned is inviting... well inviting this thread. As for giving him a chance to provide an email address; his account was not deleted. You could still click on his name in any of the threads and see the personal information he had listed, which included his email address.
Originally Posted By danyoung >RT, the part you missed was the part where Jon tried to write back in just to say "okay, goodbye everyone. here's my email".< What part of "banned" don't you understand, X? When someone is shut out of a site, it's in very bad taste to change the login and come on back, even if it's just to say goodbye. jon lost his priviledge to communicate through LP. Yet he continued to violate that ban with his attempts to continue communication. It's absolutely a no brainer to me that Doobie and company would erase those posts, and continue to be vigilant in seeing that he does indeed refrain from posting. And by now everyone who cares knows about nadelberg.com, and can chat with the lad to their heart's content. Kudos to Doobie for leaving those links viewable here.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***Do you mean for the moderator who had to keep going in and deleting posts from a banned poster?*** No. I mean for Jon, trying to write one simple thread to say goodbye. A little common decency goes a long way. And that particular moderator was being an obstinate idiot, to be quite honest. Or, if not, just a mean, nasty heartless person. It was really stupid the way that went down.
Originally Posted By jdub >>My feeling that coming to this site is strictly voluntary. If one cannot handle what happens here then find someplace else to be.<< --and expressing a contrasting view is wrong! WRONG! Resistance is futile!
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Danyoung and roadtrip, great minds indeed. I'll say no more.>> Well thank you X... it is nice to have one's superior intellect recognized by others. ;-)
Originally Posted By Mr X ***What part of "banned" don't you understand, X?*** I guess the part which I can't write since it would violate community standards, DanYoung. But you can paint your own picture.
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Originally Posted By jdub Applied to someone ELSE'S hat (rather than one's own), it would've made a great April Fool's joke!
Originally Posted By utahjosh I'm surprised to see how passionate Mr. X is about this. It's just an internet discussion board. Even if you've been here for a long time and have friends here, it's still just a website. I suggest they go outside, spend time with family, email back and forth using no community standards at all, and chill out.
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Originally Posted By utahjosh I was going to click "Report this topic to a moderator" but I'm pretty sure they are already reading this one. Just a hunch. Guys, I come to LP, in part, because of the community standards. Let's keep the language clean, please.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Ok, the language is a clear violation of the standards and I have to agree with utahjosh. This isn't the place for that no matter how upset you may be.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<This isn't the place for that no matter how upset you may be.>> I'm not upset. I was just responding (humorously I thought) to a suggestion from X. I think his getting so carried away about this thing is really quite amusing. I don't take his comments seriously enough to be upset about them.
Originally Posted By dshyates OK, everybdy take a deep breath.........now let it out slow on a ten count. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. OK, now, group hug.
Originally Posted By Ursula Well, there's a fine how-do-you-do. Mr. X, I have something to say to you. In a few posts back, you claimed to speak for "many longtime posters." You do not speak for me. And please keep your smut off of this site.
