assani

[diebitter]

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petition to change the name of oot to

PERSONAL PLAYGROUND FOR OOT MODS TO MAKE POSTERS POST THE WAY THEY LIKE THEM TO

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Nice suggestion. Can I post this as a pole in ATF please?

[ajmargarine]

Meh. I was posting yesterday in the NFL thread in the Sports forum and was annoyed along with some of the others at Assani's countdown thing. That thread is about camaraderie and fellowship and just having a good time while watching the games together and he was, I don't want to say ruining it because I don't think it was THAT bad, but he was like an irritating little mosquito.

He had been asked a few times what was up with it and just ignored it and kept doing it. It's not a big thing, but I can see how it can be interpreted as a troll. Part of the makeup of a troll is look-at-me look-at-me.

I don't think I agree with the demodding either. Is it a black and white out of forum ban because of AF's OOT post(s)? Maybe cut Yeti some slack and chalk it up to mistakes happen?

[nation]

the out of forum ban is really bad and breaks one of the only two rules we have in place.

however, i have a far bigger problem with banning a user just because he has a sig with some numbers in it, and some posters get their panties in a bunch when he ignores their requests to explain it.

[daryn]

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Meh. I was posting yesterday in the NFL thread in the Sports forum and was annoyed along with some of the others at Assani's countdown thing. That thread is about camaraderie and fellowship and just having a good time while watching the games together and he was, I don't want to say ruining it because I don't think it was THAT bad, but he was like an irritating little mosquito.

He had been asked a few times what was up with it and just ignored it and kept doing it. It's not a big thing, but I can see how it can be interpreted as a troll. Part of the makeup of a troll is look-at-me look-at-me.

I don't think I agree with the demodding either. Is it a black and white out of forum ban because of AF's OOT post(s)? Maybe cut Yeti some slack and chalk it up to mistakes happen?

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of course it's a troll, i don't see how it's debatable really.

nos1nos2 registers an account and posts an obvious fictional and controversial situation and asks for advice on it, that's a troll right? assani posts this countdown in every post and ignores all questions about it. IT IS A TROLL. if he would just say "yeah i'm counting down the days until i lose my virginity" then it's fine, but to ignore all questioning is a passive attempt at trolling and turning any discussion into a discussion about him. that's not welcome in OOT, sorry, and like i said if anyone disagrees feel free to demod me.

[private joker]

I think demodding Yeti is also a bit of an overreaction. While I disagreed with Yeti's ban (as stated in my first response in this thread), a) it was only for 3 hours; and b) it was suggested by Dynasty.

Seems like Ryan should just tell Yeti: "Hey bud, stop banning out of forums, reinstate Assani, and if it happens again you'll get demodded."

[NT!]

i think assani sometimes tries to be a good sports poster but he does derail / troll as well and anybody who thinks he doesn't know exactly what he's doing is dim.

losing yeti over this sucks huge balls and is dumb. bad time to pick a spot and make an example out of somebody.

[NT!]

yeah what makes this especially dumb as pj says is that multiple mods were telling him it was fine, he was clearly aware of the nuance and was trying to stay within the rules, and then he gets tossed anyway, whereas when jim kuhn just goes and bans a well-liked poster for a completely terrible, illegitimate reason (OUT OF FORUM as well) it gets absolutely no response from admins even though most mods think it was laughably stupid. way to keep in touch with your volunteers guys.

[Jim Kuhn]

A few points. I think the post with T-God had been moved to Internet Gambling and back to BBV. I could be mistaken as I had multiple windows up. However, T-God's location WAS ALSO IN THE ZOO and you can see via this LINK. Also, aren't locations and user names across all forums? i.e. not per forum? Also, by the lack of admin response I am deducing they agreed that the location was inappropriate for www.twoplustwo.com. So...... it was not a 'terrible illegitimate reason'.

FYI for Ryan - the location was something like 'sucka y sucka dick y'all'. He had already been banned multiple times for profanity and you had stated a couple of bans ago he was on his last chance. I banned him for 24 hours and changed his location to something like 2+2.

FWIW I would like to see Yeti reinstated with just a warning. I think he has learned his lesson. I think he rubbed Ryan the wrong way with his acknowledgment that he was banning out of forum. That does not mean that I agree with the assani ban. If the main offense was having a counter in his signature I think the ban should be overturned. JMHO

Thank you,

Jim Kuhn
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[ZBTHorton]

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I think demodding Yeti is also a bit of an overreaction. While I disagreed with Yeti's ban (as stated in my first response in this thread), a) it was only for 3 hours; and b) it was suggested by Dynasty.

Seems like Ryan should just tell Yeti: "Hey bud, stop banning out of forums, reinstate Assani, and if it happens again you'll get demodded."

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[Ryan Beal]

Thing is I didn't overreact. The response I started to type up was more joking and exactly, "Hey, don't do this again." And in response to his point about banning for posts made earlier in OOT, this was exactly what I was going to say:


No


Then I stopped and thought about it. From my viewpoint he knew he wasn't supposed to do that and did anyway. Other mods encouraging it I don't understand. The rules are there for everyone. They were put in place quite a while ago, and I'm not making an example out of anyone. I like Yeti. This sucks. But the rule has to be enforced if it's there, and I couldn't think of a reason this was ok.

It's not surprising to me that some don't like this, but I'm not going to understand the following as reasoning for bans if some of the same thinking isn't applied here. I hear all the time that if a user can't read the stickies that's their problem and we should have no sympathy for them etc, etc. The mod sticky is very short.