Cokehabit's ban justified?

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...sorry cokey!

Though really, why am I apologizing... he started it :lol:

Still signin' my name,
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Old School · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 4:16 pm Post subject:

I wish cokey would learn. The forum is more entertaining with him around.
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skyfolly · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject:

the mod was too sensitive. :lol:

at least cokey didn't swear at him/her.
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poly_poly-man · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject:

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he got banned for that? :evil:

freelight · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject:

Well, the signature thing is annoying, but he should have known better than to go off on a personal attack.
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It was my thread :oops:

Edit: turns out my thread about a locked thread was locked.

Old School · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:03 pm Post subject:

I hope it is not a permaban.
I mean it's not like he insulted a grieving woman or something.
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Naib · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject:

he got banned for that WTF!
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Old School · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject:

Naib · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject:

he didn't say the poster was stupid, he did talk abt someones stupidity

big difference

I sometimes do things really stupidly BUT I aint stupid. I say mis-use of powers and the mod/admin has a person grudge against cokehabit. I mean worse things have been posted with no big THWONK of the ban-stick
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Old School · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject:

I don't know if anyone has a grudge with cokey or not. If I were a Mod, I probably would have let that pass with a possible warning. Like I said before, cokey is fun to have around. I hope it isn't permanent.
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doubleagent · Guru Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 444 Location: 127.0.0.1

He got banned for that!?

Ridiculous.

Now I just don't feel comfortable here anymore.

Plus I'm not ready to admit that I'm not stupid. In fact, I think it's arrogant if you do. Cokey was just pointing out the facts.
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I find it absolutely ridiculous that I was banned for what I said.

In the history of the Gentoo forums no-one has been banned for such a little thing. It is an unacceptable abuse of power and is just nixnut's way of giving me a personal attack.

If you banned everyone for something as small as that then you would ban 50% of the users.
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Voltago · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject:

Go cry, emo kid.

mdeininger · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject:

yeah that ban was way over the top; that didn't even qualify for being mean or something.
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mdeininger · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:53 pm Post subject:

tylerwylie · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:54 pm Post subject:

Okay, my ban was pretty heinous, but this is heinous * 5 at least....
Cokehabit may love to enrage and pick on but this was just ... wow....

poly_poly-man · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject:

I agree that the ban is stupid - I'd love to hear nixnut's take on these comments...

Though cokey sure was heading for a ban down this road, I don't think he was there quite yet.

I do agree that cokey's an important part of OTW, when he keeps his cool

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Naib · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject:

I agree, mis-use of powers.

YES it had the potential to head down the path of more and more abuse being thrown by either party but a ban on pointing out someones Stupidity WTF!

since when is stating the truth wrong or are we all destined to become unpeople

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Paapaa · l33t Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Posts: 955 Location: Finland

Well, people have been banned for posting a sequence of 16 8-bit numbers, so...

But I agree, banning should be done only in extreme cases - this was not one. There are too many people here wanting to restrict what can be said and where. OS projects should encourage openness in communication too.
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SnEptUne · l33t Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 656

Fortunately, there is no one named "ban" or you could be banned for saying the ban is stupid.
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