Bill_Murray_Fan_7383 Posted:

I’ll give you the all caps then, as I’ve only been consistently active for about a week or so now, and it slipped my mind to check for rule changes.

Getting banned for breaking a rule that you didn’t realize was a rule does suck, and because it was a relatively new rule, I was lenient. (24 hours instead of the 48 it technically should have been)

But in all my experience as a moderator, I’ve never issued a ban for all caps – simply editing the title, and leaving a “Mod edit for all caps” note gets the message across much more easily than a ban.

For a first offense, I did just that with another poster. However, this wasn’t your first offense. We can go into more details privately, if you’d like, so that you know where you stand.

What I’m more concerned with is…in what part of that post do you find something that constitutes as “trolling”? I don’t see anything blatantly offensive or inflammatory in that post.

First off, the title of the thread (COMMIE HOMO-LOVING SONS OF GUNS)is definitely trolling. Humorous trolling, to be sure, but still trolling.

If the thread title had been more civil and not ALLCAPS, then it would have been fine in NO SRSLY. I’d have even let the “That’s how we do this **** in Iowa, ****es” part go right by as a very minor ‘lulzy’ addition.