Although I agree with your assessment. I believe its spot on. There are many, probably the vast majority who have reached that same conclusion. I still don't want anyone banned based on being an irritating asshole.

Hootie and GoChiefs are prime examples of good posters who rub people the wrong way. Hootie left they mods no choice to ban. Since he has been back, he still gets in peoples faces, calls out BS, spouts off BS opinions. But, he's doing it within the rules. Same with GoChiefs. There was a time when I think I was the only one who saw the potential in GoChiefs to be a valued poster. Part of it was his fault with his in your face posts. But, like Hootie, he changed from always using the in your face posts.

Those are just two of the former "assholes" that have turned it around and IMHO bring a lot of value to the board. Which is why I'm always against banning unless the poster leaves you no choice.

dude, the place is free
sorta hard to bitch about the service when you pay shit

You are correct. Why bitch about wanting the place to be more enjoyable.

Why don't you do some research on the later versions of vBulletin before bitching?

No shit, A simple Google search will show you a million pages of negative reviews and opinions.

Ah, thanks, Dave.

I loved them as a kid because they kept the 50's Doo Wop sound alive but I must admit, I don't know much about them otherwise.

BRC nails it... the rules for banishment need to be very clear and evenly enforced... if Darth got banned for a "filter violation" so what, so was I, didnt understand that crap one bit.

"Filter violation? all I did was say one who sucks the penis etc"

But it was what it was... my thinking at the time is and was "hey, this guy already decided to **** me up, why give him another opportunity to exercise his huge internet peen at my expense".

So I came back with a corrected behavior.

Long story short, these temp bans are nothing more than bullshit and postcount fodder... in fact, these diabolical mods prolly ban people JUST to drum up outrage posts about said banning.

CANT YOU SEE... MAN.

I was promoting concerts in the late 70's. Put together a 50's show one year. Got Wolfman Jack to emcee and Sha Na Na to headline. It was kind of cool to see all the old timers backstage telling stories. Wolfman Jack and Bowser seemed really close. None were assholes to anyone.

If Sweet Daddy stops using the phrase "Lil Chiefy" I will accept him into my heart.

This is true for any product.

Most of the mods call it down the middle, but Phobia tends to hold grudges and I think he and SDH never hit it off very well.

Very true, and great post! I really can't say Reetard as done anything banishment worthy. Just an annoying dildo. I used to dislike Clay til I understood him a little better. He def brings a lot to the convo, same with just about everyone else here. Just lucky for some (myself included) there's no penalty for stupidity!
But I can't ever remember saying RRKC has a dumb opinion on this but we agree on that. Mostly because he only spews the same 1 thing over, over, over, over, over....

That is awesome!

Filter evasion bans seems a little silly to me. Does anyone really care if someone cusses on a message board? And why are we allowed to cuss only if we spell the cuss word correctly?

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I think you better edit this post. The last time this stuff got brought up and a poster got rebellious like that part I left out of my quote got perma-banned.
Especially don't mention anything about a bag of dicks.