The standard for banning seem to vary depending on who you are. There are a few posters on the NPR forum who post vet racist and personal attacks and never get banned. They are really great at dishing out vicious statement buts cannot take incoming. They have thousand such post but will complain and cause bans for other posters.
I see a couple of those NPR guys are now posting here in the main forum still with the same confrontational attitudes. I won't call them by name because Mike Howerton was kind enough to lift my lifetime ban recently. But you know who they are. It might also be asked whether the standards applied for banning are the same for everybody ?
Yes Mr. Bondman, I have been banned twice, for 3 months each time...The first one, I believe, was for getting on one of
Mr. Wilson's delicate nerves ?...I appealed to Mike Howerton, and he graciously gave me a "get out of jail early card".
..The second time was for, get this, making "abusive posts"!
There are only 2 or 3 people on this forum, I would ever think about making disparaging remarks to (or about)..And in NO instance, have I ever engaged in 'name calling' or 'profanity' with them ! (unless of course, calling someone a "gosh darn idiot"...is considered highly 'abusive'.)
I have been told, I have a "Don Rickles" style of sarcastic humor..However, I am firmly convinced, that forum moderators on ALL pool forum's, must first pass some sort of 'Zero sense of humor test' in order to qualify for their lofty positions of (often abused) power !..But, then I guess that's why Rickles made the 'big bucks' !..He only insulted important people, like Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin !..He never picked on nobody's, like John Barton, CJ Wiley, or Mr. 3cushion ! :embarrassed2:
SJD
PS..Let me also add, I have seen some VERY abusive posts go unpunished !..I hope this doesn't qualify as one...If it does,
just ask me and I will delete it...Please don't send me back to 'forum purgatory' !
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