assani
 

i'm sick of this '105'994 and counting' crap.

its basically just trolling as he is doing it in every post and as far as i can see continues to ignore anyone who questions wtf he is doing.

i sent him a PM kindly asking him to stop it. he seems to have ignored it and has continued his retarded posts in sporting events

if his next OOT post contains it i'm banning him.

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i like it

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what is he counting

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as far as i can see he wont tell anyone

its taking all my restraint to not just nuke him right now

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He's not breaking any rules. Just consider it a signature, like Big Steve's old (and annoying) Living Laughing Loving, and like Jim Kuhn's card suits. Pretty easy to ignore; I don't like Assani at all but this is the least of his offenses to the forum.

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he is breaking rules because it's basically a sophisticated troll. everyone asks him what he's counting and he ignores it, it derails threads believe it or not.

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If you really think this is a problem, ban him for 3 hours and tell him why.

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If you really think this is a problem, ban him for 3 months and tell him why.

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the guy's a ridiculously horrible troll and always has been.

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If you really think this is a problem, ban him for 3 months and tell him why.

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the guy's a ridiculously horrible troll and always has been.

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In 3 hours the late football games will be over and the point should be made. If he keeps trolling, then you can take more serious action.

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He's doing it in the NFL thread and it's mucho annoying. Do it now when the games are still going on imo.

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i could just ban him cos he did post in OOT earlier today. i figured i'd be fair and wait until he reoffends in there though.

i have the ban all planned out too, 24 hours.

ban reason : 86400 seconds and counting

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i could just ban him cos he did post in OOT earlier today. i figured i'd be fair and wait until he reoffends in there though.

i have the ban all planned out too, 24 hour ban.

ban reason : 86400 seconds and counting

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Do it plz.

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alright hes gone, but for only 10800 seconds as dynasty suggested.

i just wish i could see his face when he opens 2p2

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2p2 would be better off without this guy imo.

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i'm pleasantly surprised at the lack of backlash in this thread. i have a feeling it will arrive soon but it's refreshing to see that some people have common sense and good taste

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I have no clue what you guys are talking about. Assani is a great poster, and basically on the level of a guy like Clarkmeister in the sporting events forum. You're banning him because of some numbers in his posts? How is this not a horrible example of mod abuse? What rules has he broken? Please unban now, and don't do any of these stupid bans anymore.

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yeah hes such a great poster that nearly everyone in this thread despises him and the news that he would not be on the sports forum this evening was met by delight from many.

i only hope i am as well revered

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He's a terrible PL08 player. That is all I can contribute at this point.

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i sent him a PM kindly asking him to stop it. he seems to have ignored it and has continued his retarded posts in sporting events



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Rule one: Moderators may never ban a poster for an infraction which did not occur in the forum they moderate. The only exception is when a spammy poster has gone crazy making multiple spam posts in multiple forums.

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Please provide clear examples of threads that he trolled in OOT, or an OOT rule which states that posters cannot have signatures. Otherwise this is a pretty clear violation of one of only two rules you need to follow. You're banning a guy for something that you got annoyed at because of his posts in sports. His last post in OOT was at 11:16, you started this thread at 2:52, which makes me think his last post in OOT was before your warning. So you can't say you banned him for that either. So please provide proof as to your ban reasoning being within your jurisdiction or I believe there is a pretty clear case for you to be demodded as stated in the "Specific rules for Moderators" thread.

edit to add: You posting your ban of assani in the sports forum backs this all up.

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haha and so the backlash begins

he read my PM and then immediately went and made a bunch more posts in sporting events containing his 'signature'. he is just an annoying troll man. if you like just consider it an overdue ban on the annoying crap in his last 10+ posts in OOT in the last 48 hours.

no, there is no rule against signatures, but there is a pretty clear rule against being a retard.

and yeah i posted the ban in sporting events because i knew it would get a laugh. no one seems to like him but you. sorry.

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and no i am not claiming the 'overdue' thing was the reason i banned him. only to just tell yourself that if it helps.

as i said, i was itching to ban him at the very sight of his next signature in OOT, which judging by his posting in sporting events today was inevitable. it was merely the encouragement and agreement in this thread which made me do it now, as opposed to sometime tonight. plus like dynasty said, a time out on a sunday night teaches him a nice little lesson.

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he did post in OOT using his sophisticated troll and was banned for 3 hours. and that's that i think.

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he read my PM and then immediately went and made a bunch more posts in sporting events containing his 'signature'.

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So you admit you banned him out of forum. Thats all I needed thanks.

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and yeah i posted the ban in sporting events because i knew it would get a laugh. no one seems to like him but you. sorry.

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Really? I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people who post in NBA threads in sports loves Assani because he consistently gives some of the best NBA analysis of anyone on this site. Also, after you posted that ban, I see a couple people laughing at it due to the ban reason that was posted, and then a couple people saying its funny, but they don't think that's right. So great proof that he is this super hated poster in the sporting events forum.

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So you admit you banned him out of forum. Thats all I needed thanks.

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haha yeah you got me sherlock.

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and then a couple people saying its funny, but they don't think that's right.

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yeah, and then kyro correcting himself when he realised that assani was only missing out on 180 minutes of a website on the information superhighway. also, i'm pretty sure no nba games took place during this 3 hour stretch so we should be ok.

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I like how you're just too arrogant to admit you're clearly in the wrong on this.

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meb,

if you didn't know about them before, maybe you should look through the site for:

1) onslaughts
2) best job ever (or whatever that post was called)

he's a not very glorified troll. i have no knowledge of his sports posts. and i will grant you that being a great sports poster is greater than being a great head phones poster, but he still is mostly just a douchehat troll. 90% of everything he does on this site is meant to detract from discussion and make discussion about him.

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Assani is among the very best posters in the Sports forum. I come across him all the time. Never trolls deliberately, great analysis, excellent contributor.

I do not know how he is in other forums (strat).

He DOES seem to delight in carrying on with these "keep 'em guessing" mysteries, like his onslaught threads from last year, which impossibly didn't get him permabanned and ended up being pretty funny.

Since MEbenhoe seems to be the only one on the "pro-Assani" side of things I thought I'd weigh in, at least as it pertains to Assani's contributions to that forum. Assani would be GREATLY missed in the NBA threads, and the season starts this week.

I'll steer clear of the administrative stuff like "was it a reasonable ban?" You're all a bunch of good lads IMO.

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90% of everything he does on this site is meant to detract from discussion and make discussion about him.

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Hmmmmm, while this may be right, in some instances (including the very two you mentioned, onslaughts and running boiling oats) the results were deemed hilarious. I don't view either as "being about him" though, just really bizarre concepts designed to confuse people which led to pretty funny results - the running oats thread is generally considered among the "best of" OOT.

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Eh, the reason the oats thread was great was more because of the awesome execution of the BoilingOatsRunner gimmick account, which I don't think was Assani. The thread was mostly retarded up until the gimmick posted.

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Wookie,

That's your opinion, mandingo. IMO the thread prior to that point cracked me up with a mix of people taking it seriously combined with others calling him out on it. Even prior to the gimmick I definitely consider it in the top 5% of any OOT OP. Just ask NT!, aka Sir Locks-A-Lot.

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ban reason : 86400 seconds and counting

[/ QUOTE ]Hi Yeti - That got me to laughing. Thanks for the laugh!

Regarding Assani: He has been a fairly regular contributor to the Omaha-8 forum and I have a positive feeling about him.

He is a very polite poster on the Omaha-8 forum. And many, if not most, of his posts are loaded with content. I consider him an asset to the Omaha-8 forum. I'm surprised to hear that he's a problem to you.

Buzz

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when assani was a regular mtt poster under the name jvwdcw, i was all for him (this was like over 2 years ago)

since then, he posts no more good mtt strategy and posts crap like onslaughts and this:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...umber=10408782

i have no plans to defend him anymore.

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when assani was a regular mtt poster under the name jvwdcw, i was all for him (this was like over 2 years ago)

since then, he posts no more good mtt strategy and posts crap like onslaughts and this:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...umber=10408782

i have no plans to defend him anymore.

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That thread was loved by many - virtually everyone who posted in it. I guess I just realized I have different tastes in what I enjoy than some of you. It's all good. Please just stop this talk of banning him unless there's a clear violation of T&C.

EDIT: it's also pretty LOL that you guys are looking to toss an established poker pro who posts under his real name and contributes to OT forums in (IMO) a positive way while you let tools like Vyse roam free. Who, by the way, recently got piled on in an NBA thread for among other things basically challenging tdarko to a fight (if you're not aware of tdarko this is both stupid in principle and obvious trolling of one of 2+2's best posters).

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onslaughts are a clear violation of T&C

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onslaughts are a clear violation of T&C

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OK, my bad. Ban away. I didn't mean to get your goat durron. Besides, I've heard you're more "into" sheep. [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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when assani was a regular mtt poster under the name jvwdcw...

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jvwdcw? I didn't know that. Now I really don't like him.

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Tuq,

daryn's 100% correct when he says that Assani is a clever troll. Yeah, he makes some good if not clearly insane posts, but he also does a ton of stuff to call attention to himself and ruin threads. While I can't really make a case for a permaban, I think a good slap on the wrist would be a fantastic start.

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Tuq,

daryn's 100% correct when he says that Assani is a clever troll. Yeah, he makes some good if not clearly insane posts, but he also does a ton of stuff to call attention to himself and ruin threads. While I can't really make a case for a permaban, I think a good slap on the wrist would be a fantastic start.

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he derails threads like this

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clever trolling? really? I like how the definition of trolling has changed to anyone who posts in a way I don't like.

And since when is calling attention to yourself a bannable offense? If this is the case we're gonna have to ban all of BBV and half of the mods on 2+2.

Also, Assani asked that I post here to ask why no one actually ever told him a reason why he was banned until he heard it from me on AIM. (no I did not mention who banned him, just why he was banned and let him know it wasnt me considering he might think this seeing how he was banned for posts he made in sports and all).

Re: assani
 

Just to add my $.02, I agree he's a really annoying poster, but he hasn't done anything banworthy.