What a pleasant thread to wake up to. I do so love completely fair representation of an issue, showing all pertinent details so an accurate discussion could be had.

Too bad this thread doesn’t fall in that category.

Here’s the things you other guys are missing: They set the whole thing up to bait me into banning someone for something which wasn’t bannable. I fell for it, and they suffered the consequences. That’s the risk you run when you try to troll a mod.

They’re going to deny it, but if you put the pieces I have together, you’ll see that. The pieces you’re missing are the tubmails I got from them. I’m not going to add all the links to the contest threads themselves, as that’s way too much work. (Note: time beteween tubmails and posts are off. There may be a delay in the send, I dunno, will have to ask ET.)

Subject: Plesea verify my contest!

From: 1337xxxxxxxxxlol…

07/01/2009 2:12PM

http://www.forumwarz.com/discussions/view/35494-v-v-v-v-contest-5bps-someone-somewhere-please-make-a-good-post-v-v-v-v

I sent 5bp to both Nana and Hobart! Please close thanks

Closed, even before I got the tubmail. No problem.

Subject: can you close my contest please

From: Hobart Bliggity

07/01/2009 2:17PM

topic

Closed, no problem.

Hobart creates a “guess the secret word” contest. I suggest he send a mod the pbumword. He does:

Subject: contest

From: Hobart Bliggity

07/01/2009 3:31PM

pbumword is frumpy

1337 posts this. If there was any doubt before this, it’s now clear that hobart and 1337 are talking to each other and staging the whole thing. That’s cool, it’s funny, but it means unnecessary work for the mods, so I ask them to move it:

Subject: Re: contest

From: MC Banhammer

07/01/2009 3:35PM

pbumword is frumpy

Okay then.

Can you and 1337 please take your games somewhere else, where mods don’t have to clean them up afterwards? Thank you.

Then Hobart thinks I’m stupid:

Subject: why did you tell 1337lol the pbumword?

From: Hobart Bliggity

07/01/2009 3:36PM

anyway contest is closed now thanks.

After that request, Hobart and 1337 do it again. I warn, even though I should have banned then.

Subject: This is not a site rule!

From: 1337xxxxxxxxxlol…

07/01/2009 3:42PM

You cant just randomly decide we’re not allowed to make a contest anymore!!!

Subject: Re: This is not a site rule!

From: MC Banhammer

07/01/2009 3:43PM

You cant just randomly decide we’re not allowed to make a contest anymore!!!

I’m not deciding you can’t make contests.

I’m asking you to stop going back-and-forth in a place where mods have to clean up. Take it to Ayn Rands or something.

And after this, Hobart posts yet another contest. At this point I have had to deal with cleaning up these contests a lot, especially after I had asked them nicely to move them somewhere I wouldn’t have to close them, that I immediately banned for the next one. Even though it may have been a legitimate contest (although I expect that 1337 would have eventually supplied the winning picture). So, Hobart, I apologize for banning you for that contest instead of the one I should have banned you for.

CrinkzPipe Posted:

1337lol contest was not toxxable.

He stated that when MCB made a non-gay post he would get the bp. What is, or what isn’t gay is up for the contest starter to decide. The ban was MCB flying off the handle.

As to this, I addressed it in that thread. The requirement was not that I make a non-gay post (not that I have any idea how a post can have a sexual orientation), it was that I not be gay. I’m not. She didn’t pay up, so I banned for toxx.

Those of you who are anti-mod on principle, will see this as another example of mods acting out. Those of you with a normal world view will understand why I did what I did. So further discussion from my part is not really something worth pursuing IMO.

Moral of the story:

The ban rule page Posted:

It is at the discretion of any moderator/administrator to ban a user temporarily or permanently. Don’t make them want to.