Something Awful did something similar if I recall. I was kidding of course, I know Tom wouldn’t do that.
However, it would be enlightening if banned people were given a chance to publicly plead their case. I know Tom’s retelling of the LK banning was very different then LK’s side of the story, which he was not given an opportunity tell publicly. And if a banned person wants to use that opportunity to dig their hole deeper, then it makes Tom’s case for banning them that much clearer to everyone else.
Actually, LK did tell his side of the story publicly. But it doesn’t matter. Tom can moderate his forums any way he wants. It’s his place.
It’s not like being a raging racist homophobe misogynist will get you banned, because there are several people like that around that manage to stay around. So the hate and intent behind the forbidden words is fine as long as you don’t actually use that specific arrangement of letters, because that specific arrangement of letters is the most horrible thing on earth apparently even when divorced from malicious intent. But if it’s just the visual of that specific arrangement of letters that is so horrible that it requires NOOU and tiohn to be permabanned, why are their posts still up? I bet Tom faints all over again every time he reads this thread.
Cubit
2044
I think Tom is trying to ensure that only true racists and misogynists are left on this forum, BobJustBob. Shame, that.
edit: This makes me think back to that post where Tom told me no banning is ever personal, and I chuckle.
Or someone could make a script that allows them to ignore certain words… You know, just a thought?
Surely the solution could never be for people to not be such relentless twatwaffles.
That would be…wrong.
As for complaining about bans, can anyone honestly say that the board is poorer for Dirt being gone for these long months? P&R certainly got less stupid.
And we lost a valid form of entertainment. Which is worse?
Rimbo
2048
Seriously? Still bitching about the bannings? Seriously?
Og_Dai
2049
Oh…he probably should consider it though. Nobody, especially admins, likes martyrs and the fables which are told and forged constantly. The higher the post count, the worse a permaban for the forum integrity.
If you (the admin) are able to separate the trolls, haters and people you simply don’t like into a subforum and tell them it’s on them when they are allowed to crawl back to the surface, that’s One Mighty Weapon and elevates an Administrator to a God (evil) or Mom (good) like being.
So people are pissed because Tom bans people when they disagree with him (or so they claim). I try disagreeing with them about this in IRC, and they ban me.
Hypocrisy, anyone?
Athryn
2051
Well, the IRC channel isn’t really associated with QT3, it just happens to have some QT3 people on it.
Fwiw,I disagree with them too, and they didn’t ban me.
Rimbo
2054
still needs a comma after “too”
That comma is extraneous but not wrong to put there.
Rimbo
2056
Only if English grammar has changed since I was in 8th grade. Compound sentences joined with a conjunction use a comma prior to the conjunction. “I disagreed with them” and “they didn’t ban me” both can form complete sentences on their own, so the conjunction gets a comma before it. <-- like in this sentence.
It must have, since just putting the and there is fine enough.
“I had a taco.” “Then I ate it.” “I had a taco and then I ate it.”
“I disagreed with them too.” "They didn’t ban me. “I disagreed with them too and they didn’t ban me.” or “I disagreed with them too, and they didn’t ban me.”
First off, all of you shut the fuck up and never post again.
Second off, you’re all fags, and your vaginas smell bad.
Do you think girls think less of a boy who lets himself be kissed?
I mean, ah…They’ll go out with a guy like me…But don’t they usually end of marrying the OTHER kind?
Fifth off, Rimbo’s right about the comma.
Play loud and kill yourselves, thanx to no fucken body but me
JMJ
Rimbo
2059
No, the conjunction alone is only adequate in situations when you have fragments, such as multiple objects, multiple subjects or multiple verbs, e.g.:
He likes men and sleeps with them. <-- correct
He likes men, and sleeps with them. <-- wrong
He likes men, and he sleeps with them. <-- correct
He likes men and he sleeps with them. <-- wrong
Basically, a comma plus a conjunction equals a semicolon:
He likes men; he sleeps with them. <-- correct
