Member Suspension Appreciation/Depreciation Thread

[Benotti69]

What thread was sniper 'trolling'?.

 

[ebandit]

...the clinic will be a much poorer place...without sniper...

Mark L

 

[Semper Fidelis]

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What thread was sniper 'trolling'?.

I did not see his posts as trolling, then again my definition is obviously not the same as management.

Maybe that "Dr." got him banninated? Seemed like the "Dr." thinks he or was getting special treatment.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

I know or now know there is something amiss with this place. It is a concerted effort. disappointing and hey maybe another outlet will receive what we have here. An army against what it is ....Sad a UK site will allow this to take place.

elevated is my head ...above my enemies.

Take me as you will. My heart will not feel this .. Show me favor when I call.

 

[sir fly]

I've just seen BlurryVII is suspended.
Can I lodge an appeal?
In fact, I think "a great Tour abolition" towards everybody affected by some short-term bans would be a nice gesture.
Their passion for cycling has brought them suspensions, remember, and preventing them from discussing the greatest event of their beloved sport would be a torture more than a disciplinary measure.

Please.

 

[Valv.Piti]

I don't like blurry being banned either. We are all passionated, people have different ways to express it. I don't think anything he wrote (that I saw) warranted a ban

 

[Armchair cyclist]

We just went 7 days (and 44 minutes) without a suspension: is this a record?

 

[BigMac]

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I've just seen BlurryVII is suspended.
Can I lodge an appeal?
In fact, I think "a great Tour abolition" towards everybody affected by some short-term bans would be a nice gesture.
Their passion for cycling has brought them suspensions, remember, and preventing them from discussing the greatest event of their beloved sport would be a torture more than a disciplinary measure.

Please.

He's only banned three days...

 

[sir fly]

Re: Re:

I've just seen BlurryVII is suspended.
Can I lodge an appeal?
In fact, I think "a great Tour abolition" towards everybody affected by some short-term bans would be a nice gesture.
Their passion for cycling has brought them suspensions, remember, and preventing them from discussing the greatest event of their beloved sport would be a torture more than a disciplinary measure.

Please.

He's only banned three days...

He'll miss the weekend stages.
We're all anxious to see the beginning and express our first impressions. It's when the euphoria reaches maximum.

 

[Red Rick]

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We just went 7 days (and 44 minutes) without a suspension: is this a record?

Well, there's been a few spammers that we permabanned in the meantime, so there's that

 

[RedheadDane]

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I've just seen BlurryVII is suspended.
Can I lodge an appeal?
In fact, I think "a great Tour abolition" towards everybody affected by some short-term bans would be a nice gesture.
Their passion for cycling has brought them suspensions, remember, and preventing them from discussing the greatest event of their beloved sport would be a torture more than a disciplinary measure.

Please.

You know... it is possible to be passionate for cycling and still follow the forum-rules. I should know.

 

[sir fly]

Re: Re:

I've just seen BlurryVII is suspended.
Can I lodge an appeal?
In fact, I think "a great Tour abolition" towards everybody affected by some short-term bans would be a nice gesture.
Their passion for cycling has brought them suspensions, remember, and preventing them from discussing the greatest event of their beloved sport would be a torture more than a disciplinary measure.

Please.

You know... it is possible to be passionate for cycling and still follow the forum-rules. I should know.

You know you're unique, RhD.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Re: Re:

I've just seen BlurryVII is suspended.
Can I lodge an appeal?
In fact, I think "a great Tour abolition" towards everybody affected by some short-term bans would be a nice gesture.
Their passion for cycling has brought them suspensions, remember, and preventing them from discussing the greatest event of their beloved sport would be a torture more than a disciplinary measure.

Please.

He's only banned three days...

He'll miss the weekend stages.
We're all anxious to see the beginning and express our first impressions. It's when the euphoria reaches maximum.

One would think this would be an incentive to, you know, not get banned in the first place. And please don't speak for all of us. Some of us dread the chaos created by the Tour, and the increased volume of posts means replying to the same point over and over whenever anything controversial happens, because conversation moves too fast for the next poster to have seen the last time the same question was raised or argument presented.

 

[sir fly]

Re: Re:

I've just seen BlurryVII is suspended.
Can I lodge an appeal?
In fact, I think "a great Tour abolition" towards everybody affected by some short-term bans would be a nice gesture.
Their passion for cycling has brought them suspensions, remember, and preventing them from discussing the greatest event of their beloved sport would be a torture more than a disciplinary measure.

Please.

He's only banned three days...

He'll miss the weekend stages.
We're all anxious to see the beginning and express our first impressions. It's when the euphoria reaches maximum.

One would think this would be an incentive to, you know, not get banned in the first place. And please don't speak for all of us. Some of us dread the chaos created by the Tour, and the increased volume of posts means replying to the same point over and over whenever anything controversial happens, because conversation moves too fast for the next poster to have seen the last time the same question was raised or argument presented.

No, I'm not speaking for all of us. it's my personal appeal.
And regarding the chaos created by the Tour... Well, I'd recommend you to ignore redundant topics and reply to posts you find worth of answering. You'll surely have meaningful and coherent discussion, since there's plenty of members here on the same page with you.

 

[lenric]

It's a little hard to turn on the non-sense cleaner, since pretty much 70% of what's written is non-sense.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Re: Re:

I've just seen BlurryVII is suspended.
Can I lodge an appeal?
In fact, I think "a great Tour abolition" towards everybody affected by some short-term bans would be a nice gesture.
Their passion for cycling has brought them suspensions, remember, and preventing them from discussing the greatest event of their beloved sport would be a torture more than a disciplinary measure.

Please.

He's only banned three days...

He'll miss the weekend stages.
We're all anxious to see the beginning and express our first impressions. It's when the euphoria reaches maximum.

One would think this would be an incentive to, you know, not get banned in the first place. And please don't speak for all of us. Some of us dread the chaos created by the Tour, and the increased volume of posts means replying to the same point over and over whenever anything controversial happens, because conversation moves too fast for the next poster to have seen the last time the same question was raised or argument presented.

No, I'm not speaking for all of us. it's my personal appeal.
And regarding the chaos created by the Tour... Well, I'd recommend you to ignore redundant topics and reply to posts you find worth of answering. You'll surely have meaningful and coherent discussion, since there's plenty of members here on the same page with you.

Your personal appeal reads "We're all anxious...".

Anyway, it's not so much about ignoring redundant topics, but when a relevant incident happens, everybody's two cents get in the way of everybody else's two cents. Take the Stelvio neutralization controversy in the 2014 Giro, or Porte and Clarke's wheel-swap, Renshaw being thrown off the Tour for headbutting people and being a colossal tool, Cav crashing into Heinrich Haussler, Cancellara picking and choosing when teams should be allowed to race in the 2010 Tour. When incidents like this happen, conversation becomes chaos because there will be multiple topics, and when you think it's all been put to bed, somebody who has joined the conversation late but it's been moving too fast for them to be able to catch up will come and say "hey everybody, has nobody considered...?" or "shouldn't X or Y be punished?" despite that what they've just said has been considered multiple times or debunked several times. That's not the fault of the latecomer, but it does get pretty frustrating. Especially if, like me, you like to fully flesh out your points, meaning that by the time you finish a post you're a couple of pages behind the argument.

 

[sir fly]

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Your personal appeal reads "We're all anxious...".

Anyway, it's not so much about ignoring redundant topics, but when a relevant incident happens, everybody's two cents get in the way of everybody else's two cents. Take the Stelvio neutralization controversy in the 2014 Giro, or Porte and Clarke's wheel-swap, Renshaw being thrown off the Tour for headbutting people and being a colossal tool, Cav crashing into Heinrich Haussler, Cancellara picking and choosing when teams should be allowed to race in the 2010 Tour. When incidents like this happen, conversation becomes chaos because there will be multiple topics, and when you think it's all been put to bed, somebody who has joined the conversation late but it's been moving too fast for them to be able to catch up will come and say "hey everybody, has nobody considered...?" or "shouldn't X or Y be punished?" despite that what they've just said has been considered multiple times or debunked several times. That's not the fault of the latecomer, but it does get pretty frustrating. Especially if, like me, you like to fully flesh out your points, meaning that by the time you finish a post you're a couple of pages behind the argument.

Aren't we all anxious?
It's used to describe the general feeling (that suspended members feel too), not to generalise the appeal
I understand what you're saying and what bothers you. I think that chaotic discussion is caused by occasional posters, and not by those who post regularly.
I'm lodging in the appeal on behalf of these regular members affected by short-term bans.

 

[thehog]

Has anyone considered Chris Froome might be doping? His transformation back in 2011 was fairy big, yes? Any thoughts?

 

[Irondan]

Has anyone considered Chris Froome might be doping? His transformation back in 2011 was fairy big, yes? Any thoughts?

Uhmmm, this is not the thread to discuss Chris Froome.

Please refer to the Chris Froome discussion thread in the clinic to continue this conversation.

TIA

 

[Jspear]

What is up with people and creating sockpuppets? I mean really, they all know it ends in a perma ban. I don't get it.

 

[Irondan]

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What is up with people and creating sockpuppets? I mean really, they all know it ends in a perma ban. I don't get it.

I don't either.

I was pretty disappointed when I saw that BlurryVII couldn't wait another day.

The AC thread will suffer because of his impatience.

 

[BigMac]

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What is up with people and creating sockpuppets? I mean really, they all know it ends in a perma ban. I don't get it.

Could not stay away for three days. Three days!

Must have been super eager for another round of bickering. I just don't understand.

Goes to show the mods were right.

 

[Jspear]

Mods can you ban me for three days? I'm curious to see if I can withstand creating another account!

Joking

 

[Valv.Piti]

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What is up with people and creating sockpuppets? I mean really, they all know it ends in a perma ban. I don't get it.

I don't either.

I was pretty disappointed when I saw that BlurryVII couldn't wait another day.

The AC thread will suffer because of his impatience.

Surely, the rhetoric in that thread will be a lot better now at least. Will it suffer? I don't think that thread will ever suffer.
Also funny that ray, blackmamba and blurry - probably the 3 most aggressive and passionated AC-fans - all couldn't wait and created sock puppets. That thread will be a little less hostile for every one of those kinda members getting permabanned. At one point, it was a given to get completely blasted in that thread, but the risk of that happening is getting lower and lower by the bans.

Feeling a little sorry for blurry tho. I dont think the first ban was deserved. And it also reminded me off how much I appreciate blackmamba is gone, possibly the worst and most annoying poster I have ever encountered.

 

[RedheadDane]

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What is up with people and creating sockpuppets? I mean really, they all know it ends in a perma ban. I don't get it.

Me neither. Especially the latest case... come on; three days!