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 Post subject: my recent banning
PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 12:38 pm 
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Who are those guys?

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Well, it's been a few days now since my most recent banning for calling Linda a "girl" after she called Geff a "hippie."

While I have done a lot of soul-searching and concluded that my participation in such blatant and vicious name-calling was a serious misstep on my part, I have to admit that the practical repercussions of my (so-called) "banning" have been, well, not at all unpleasant. I'm still reading posts, posting comments myself, and here I am starting a new thread. Except for feeling the sting of admonishment, this isn't so bad.

Just curious: Geff, are you really a hippie? Of course, you don't have to answer that if you don't want to. I totally respect your privacy, man.


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:13 pm 
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When I think hippie, I think of this guy. :D

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 Post subject: my recent banning
PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:49 pm 
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I love Music & hate brickwalled audio

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Greg Carrier wrote:
Well, it's been a few days now since my most recent banning for calling Linda a "girl" after she called Geff a "hippie."

While I have done a lot of soul-searching and concluded that my participation in such blatant and vicious name-calling was a serious misstep on my part, I have to admit that the practical repercussions of my (so-called) "banning" have been, well, not at all unpleasant. I'm still reading posts, posting comments myself, and here I am starting a new thread. Except for feeling the sting of admonishment, this isn't so bad.

Just curious: Geff, are you really a hippie? Of course, you don't have to answer that if you don't want to. I totally respect your privacy, man.

I could have been considered a hippie for a couple years in the late 70's, but then I morphed into a full blown glam rocker. Now, I'm just an old man.

I'm still unsure if i was actually banned for a few hours, or if there was an issue between my browser(s) & Imwan. 5 minutes after Linda's "banned" post on that thread I could not see anything on Imwan/Ice except the light Blue background for several hours.

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 Post subject: my recent banning
PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:07 pm 
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I think of THIS guy...

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 Post subject: my recent banning
PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:48 pm 
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A good time to get banned is 1am Pacific / 4am Eastern... that's when this forum seems to most often take a dump. It's happened often enough that I assume it has something to do with the host's maintenance schedule.


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:48 pm 
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Geff R. wrote:
Greg Carrier wrote:
Well, it's been a few days now since my most recent banning for calling Linda a "girl" after she called Geff a "hippie."

While I have done a lot of soul-searching and concluded that my participation in such blatant and vicious name-calling was a serious misstep on my part, I have to admit that the practical repercussions of my (so-called) "banning" have been, well, not at all unpleasant. I'm still reading posts, posting comments myself, and here I am starting a new thread. Except for feeling the sting of admonishment, this isn't so bad.

Just curious: Geff, are you really a hippie? Of course, you don't have to answer that if you don't want to. I totally respect your privacy, man.

I could have been considered a hippie for a couple years in the late 70's, but then I morphed into a full blown glam rocker. Now, I'm just an old man.

I'm still unsure if i was actually banned for a few hours, or if there was an issue between my browser(s) & Imwan. 5 minutes after Linda's "banned" post on that thread I could not see anything on Imwan/Ice except the light Blue background for several hours.

:roll: If you were banned you'd know it. (But you should definitely blame Bush.)

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 Post subject: my recent banning
PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 5:00 pm 
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I love Music & hate brickwalled audio

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Glad I wasn't banned! But it was a weird issue. Impacted all 3 browsers (Opera, Firefox & IE) so I assumed it was related to my ip address since the 3 browsers do not share cookies..

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 Post subject: my recent banning
PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 6:15 pm 
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Who are those guys?

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Linda wrote:
Geff R. wrote:
Greg Carrier wrote:
Well, it's been a few days now since my most recent banning for calling Linda a "girl" after she called Geff a "hippie."

While I have done a lot of soul-searching and concluded that my participation in such blatant and vicious name-calling was a serious misstep on my part, I have to admit that the practical repercussions of my (so-called) "banning" have been, well, not at all unpleasant. I'm still reading posts, posting comments myself, and here I am starting a new thread. Except for feeling the sting of admonishment, this isn't so bad.

Just curious: Geff, are you really a hippie? Of course, you don't have to answer that if you don't want to. I totally respect your privacy, man.

I could have been considered a hippie for a couple years in the late 70's, but then I morphed into a full blown glam rocker. Now, I'm just an old man.

I'm still unsure if i was actually banned for a few hours, or if there was an issue between my browser(s) & Imwan. 5 minutes after Linda's "banned" post on that thread I could not see anything on Imwan/Ice except the light Blue background for several hours.

:roll: If you were banned you'd know it. (But you should definitely blame Bush.)


It IS Bush's fault, but you won't catch ME saying that...


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 Post subject: my recent banning
PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 6:36 pm 
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I think of THIS guy...

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Where did you get that picture of Chris Evil?

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 Post subject: my recent banning
PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 6:39 pm 
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Greg Carrier wrote:
Linda wrote:
Geff R. wrote:
Greg Carrier wrote:
Well, it's been a few days now since my most recent banning for calling Linda a "girl" after she called Geff a "hippie."

While I have done a lot of soul-searching and concluded that my participation in such blatant and vicious name-calling was a serious misstep on my part, I have to admit that the practical repercussions of my (so-called) "banning" have been, well, not at all unpleasant. I'm still reading posts, posting comments myself, and here I am starting a new thread. Except for feeling the sting of admonishment, this isn't so bad.

Just curious: Geff, are you really a hippie? Of course, you don't have to answer that if you don't want to. I totally respect your privacy, man.

I could have been considered a hippie for a couple years in the late 70's, but then I morphed into a full blown glam rocker. Now, I'm just an old man.

I'm still unsure if i was actually banned for a few hours, or if there was an issue between my browser(s) & Imwan. 5 minutes after Linda's "banned" post on that thread I could not see anything on Imwan/Ice except the light Blue background for several hours.

:roll: If you were banned you'd know it. (But you should definitely blame Bush.)

It IS Bush's fault, but you won't catch ME saying that...

Because YOU are BANNED.

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 Post subject: my recent banning
PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:37 pm 
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Pure Evil Gold!!

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Smiff wrote:
RoyalScam wrote:
I think of THIS guy...

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Where did you get that picture of Chris Evil?


Smiff keeps trying to pass off pictures of himself as me. It's so very, very sad. :ohno:

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 8:07 pm 
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That guy's not hippie! Busty, maybe, but not hippie.

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 Post subject: my recent banning
PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 8:34 pm 
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Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine

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I believe that's Wavy Gravy.

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 Post subject: my recent banning
PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:19 pm 
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I come from the land of the ICE and snow

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I don't know who he is, but will you people PLEASE stop copying his picture? I think I'm going blind.... :dazed:

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 Post subject: my recent banning
PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:02 am 
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I don't know who he is, but will you people PLEASE stop copying his picture? I think I'm getting turned on.... :love1:


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:08 am 
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I come from the land of the ICE and snow

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Curse you, Calijawn! How did you know?

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 Post subject: my recent banning
PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 1:13 am 
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I'm curious, what do you have to do to get banned? I've had some dust-ups myself in here and I've never been banned (to my knowledge--and Linda said I would know if I had been.) It seems to be more of a private joke in here about being banned, in essence because those claiming they have been never have. I don't even know if Greg is being serious. I can't believe he is, I can't see him being banned for calling somebody a girl. I guess the joke must be you can't get banned in here.


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 2:19 am 
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I'm curious, what do you have to do to get banned?

Tell Jimbo to "knock it off with the CD buying".

No ... basically, you'd have to be a distinctly negative presence in the community as judged by myself and/or our other admins and moderators. I've removed people who had consistently bad attitudes, and I felt that they brought nothing of value to the table to offset that. I've removed people who became so toxic that I felt it overrode the value that they did bring. It's a case-by-case basis. We don't have a long list of hard and fast rules.

Banning is a joke upthread because these guys are in no danger of getting banned.

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 Post subject: my recent banning
PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:33 am 
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Who are those guys?

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Linda wrote:
James Dean wrote:
I'm curious, what do you have to do to get banned?

Tell Jimbo to "knock it off with the CD buying".

No ... basically, you'd have to be a distinctly negative presence in the community as judged by myself and/or our other admins and moderators. I've removed people who had consistently bad attitudes, and I felt that they brought nothing of value to the table to offset that. I've removed people who became so toxic that I felt it overrode the value that they did bring. It's a case-by-case basis. We don't have a long list of hard and fast rules.

Banning is a joke upthread because these guys are in no danger of getting banned.


Yeah, I have lifetime impunity. It only cost me a couple grand and a nice plate of cookies. :snack:
Well worth the price. Now I can say whatever I want and go naked and stuff.


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 Post subject: my recent banning
PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:41 am 
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Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine

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I believe that's Wavy Gravy.

I was right - http://www.mendelsonarchives.com/Wavy-Gravy.htm

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:29 am 
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Linda wrote:
James Dean wrote:
I'm curious, what do you have to do to get banned?

Tell Jimbo to "knock it off with the CD buying".

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:46 am 
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Pure Evil Gold!!

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When I first joined here, I got a banning. I was thinking to myself, "For what?"

Then someone explained to me the in-joke about bannings.

Now, if Linda doesn't ban me every once in a while, it doesn't feel right. :ohno:

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