Wielding the banhammer

[Doc_Souark]

You bunch of young whippersnappers ! I remember back in the old days when Mashel Noah ran this place with a iron fist inside a silk glove ! Now that he's retired and left it to his replacement Marshel Morris and his deputy PirateCat(comic relief) to run the random bannings has slowed down. But I'm sure if it comes back to the nut cuttin' he'll be back swingin that ole Banhammer.

 

[Tom Cashel]

Ah yes, the classic "I will Chief Joseph no more forever" speech. I remember. And then you were back within 2 weeks. It must have been a good book.

It wasn't one of yours.

 

[Mark Chance]

(makes me want to sing the theme song to Facts of Life).

Not to be confused with the theme song used in the first season:

You take the good, you take the bad,
you take them both and there you have
The Facts of Life, the Facts of Life.

There's a time you got to go and show
You're growin' now you know about
The Facts of Life, the Facts of Life.

When the world never seems
to be livin up to your dreams
And suddenly you're finding out
the Facts of Life are all about you, you.

It takes a lot to get 'em right
When you're learning the Facts of Life ... Learning the Facts of Life.
Learning the Facts of Life ... Learning the Facts of Life.
Learning the Facts of Life.

 

[AGGEMAM]

I dunno about that. I've got one.

I think I do too, but I'll have to check. What are the odds of meeting another person with one.

 

[Darrin Drader]

It wasn't one of yours.

Ooh, ouch. Coming from anyone else, I might be offended.

 

[Olive]

I like the level of banning. Everyone I've ever seen get banned deserved it fully, even if it was a shame that people couldn't keep a sense of perspective.

regardless, I think that at least one person has been banned twice, and is unlikely to ever get pardoned again. I think that temporary bannings might ever encourage people to get carried away more often, as if they know that they can carry on, and then get two weeks off it might not be such a threat? I don't really know if that's true, but I don't want to find out.

 

[Tom Cashel]

Ooh, ouch. Coming from anyone else, I might be offended.

See? You know me too well, Double D.

 

[Darrin Drader]

See? You know me too well, Double D.

Of course! (In the sense that you can really know anyone online - which is not at all).

 

[jdavis]

Man, that's harsh...

-Hyp.

but true. Especially now, those girls blimped big time.

 

[William Ronald]

I can only recall one person being banned at EN World, and I have been around since shortly after Eric posted his shingle. I think that because the site is well moderated, it encourages people to police themselves. This can be likened to people slowing down on an expressway when they see a police car. If drivers know that the police are around, fewer people seek to actively break traffic laws.

Warnings seem to work fairly well here. Sometimes, I have seen people apologize to another poster when things got a little out of hand. I think before we hit the post button, we have to remember that the people on the boards are just as human as the rest of us. We are all different, in our views, playing styles, and interests, and I think our diversity is a strength.