I've been here since year dot, I've never been controversial, and I've always encouraged the following of the rules.

So imagine my surprise when I find myself banned the other day.

Mods, please explain. I have asked in the relevent threads, but all I get is a strange silence.

Two weeks ago, I posted on three MJ threads, stating that the MJ topics were now getting out of hand. These threads concerned MJ looks, his shorts, and his swimming trucks.

They were totally ignored.

It seems that MJ stupid threads are allowed. So I start a few of my own, following the themes already accepted.

I start a thread about MJ on a bike, and before I knew it, Handclaps has closed it down. I send an org not to apologise, but before I knew it, and with no explination, I found myself banned.

I enter the org as a general viewer, to find that other stupid MJ threads are still allowed, and although Handclap seems to be quickly trying to shut a few down, Daq, the author of most of them, is not banned, despite starting over 10 "useless" threads.

As Handclapz has ignored all of my requests of an explination over the last couple of weeks, I ask the other mods to please explain what I did wrong (against the org rules) to get banned, that the likes of Daq didn't?

Its not a hard question. Could someone answer?

I'm not trying to catch anyone out, I simply want to know,

1. What did I do wrong?

2. What I did different from people starting daily stupid MJ threads?

3. Why it is acceptable for a mod to ignore questions concerning their actions?

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[Edited 3/18/05 16:53pm]

SquirrelMeat said:

wrong-o, man. you haven't asked me or said anything to me ever since your account was reactivated. as for your 3 questions:

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I've asked several times, in the relevenat threads, but strangely they were ignored.

Are you saying I had the unfortunate luck to raise questions in ALL the topics that lead to "offences" but once I raised them, no mod happened to check anymore!?!?! (even though they made other comments in them!?!?!)

Hmmm. Ok.

Back to whats important. What did I do that was different and/or worse than the Orgers starting 11 (yes 11) stupid threads?

I assume it needs to be something major. I mean, starting them is one thing, but banning someone for starting a fraction of the volume must have be significant.

What did I do that was so much worse than some orgers starting 4 times as many thread but not getting banned?

SquirrelMeat said:

no, you didn't. all you did was post stupid stuff merely in order to bump up the stuff as a way to say "omg look, all this stuff!" that is by no means an acceptable way to get a question answered. if you wanted to ask a question you shoulda just orgnoted one of us mods instead of bumping up a shitload of threads and messing up the forum.


yes.


go back and read what i put in boldface.


i only banned you for one measly day. not bad, really.


like i said, go back and read what i posted. there's a difference between merely posting a stupid thread and bumping up said threads to attempt to make a point and make things difficult for mods and the forum in general.

I don't know where to start, so I may as well. You said....

"like i said, go back and read what i posted. there's a difference between merely posting a stupid thread and bumping up said threads to attempt to make a point and make things difficult for mods and the forum in general."

So you are saying its a lesser offence just to be stupid rather than calcuated?

If thats the case, and you don't think I'm "grown up" enough to understand (your words), then how can I be calculated rather than stupid?

And for the record, long before the day you banned me, I raised the volume of stupid MJ threads. Don't make out I dragged them up on one day.

SquirrelMeat said:

you may think of those who start up crap such as mj threads as stupid, but it's a mere by-product of any forum: unsavory topics. no matter how much you wanna wish the shit away, people will post stupid shit. it doesn't make them stupid by any means. and what you did was by no means calculated nor did it mark you as "stupid" (which you totally are not, sm)--that was just totally bad judgement on your part.


so do a whole lotta other people besides you. i'm not keeping tabs on whoever's the most vocal about it--there's simply too many muthafuckas on this site to do so and none of us mods have the time to sit and keep score. and you did indeed drag up a bunch that night. wanna help rid the forum of the shit? simple: ignore the shit and it will sink or be deleted eventually.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Hands, thats a really good point, and I apprieciate the fact that we can talk about it.

Don't get me wrong, you mods do a great job, but when an unoffensive orger (me) gets banned for doing a lesser version of someone else who doesn't get banned, can you understand the frustration!?!?

I look at it from this point of view. How can I pump "crap" threads up, if you shouldn't let the "crap" threads survive in the first place?


Hands, keep up the good work (even though we've wound each other up this time).

Cool?

SquirrelMeat said:

totally.


true, but what can ya do? TOOOOONS of poopsy threads are started up here on a daily basis and we all gotta deal with it...folks steadily keep the stuff goin either by participating in it or bitchin at the participants on the thread, as opposed to thinkin "hey, this is shit! screw this, lemme go find a more decent thread and leave this alone..."


cool. and thank you.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I came to the org tonight (2am in the UK) a bit fed up tonight. I've left realising how great it is. Thats the effect we can all have on each other, even on the other side of the world.

No why can't my other half be this understanding!?!?!?!?!



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[Edited 3/18/05 18:23pm]

SquirrelMeat said:

w00t!!!