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[Frumple]

Hopefully it doesn't; the forum's had periods it didn't have an ameripol (and equivalent threads for other regions), and the consistent pattern is it infests the rest of the forum. The thread started and has kept popping up as what amounts to a containment thread, keeping the regularly highly charged topics out of preferably less volatile threads.

Drama in the ameripol thread's a symptom, not a cause, heh.

[Loud Whispers]

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[Egan_BW]

That sign can't stop me; I, like many other posters, don't know how to read!

[Great Order]

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[Sirus]

I can't believe the WTF thread gave me my two new favorite images back to back.

[Eschar]

It's not so common for posters to give us new images at all (cause external hosting.)

[heydude6]

Shit. I disappear for a day and 4 posters get banned, 3 of them I knew. I guess this makes me the most qualified to make eulogies for them, but it seems the time for it has passed now.

I will allow myself to do a single short one though.

RIP Hector, never thought I'd ever see you get banned. what happened to you man? The guy I'm hearing described does not match the person I played Mafia with. I hope whatever it is that's made you so bitter and angry eventually becomes a distant memory. I know how shitty life circumstance can spill into outrage at completely unrelated things. And for that I can't blame you. Some of us are just given crosses that are too heavy to bear. You will be missed.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

[Egan_BW]

I can't believe the WTF thread gave me my two new favorite images back to back.

Dang, even better than my novel scoops allegory of the cave image?

[Loud Whispers]

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Actually LOL

Dang, even better than my novel scoops allegory of the cave image?

Let's see Paul Allen's allegory of the cave

RIP Hector, never thought I'd ever see you get banned. what happened to you man? The guy I'm hearing described does not match the person I played Mafia with. I hope whatever it is that's made you so bitter and angry eventually comes to pass. I know how shitty life circumstance can spill into outrage at completely unrelated things. And for that I can't blame you. Some of us are just given crosses that are too heavy to bear. You will be missed.

I agree completely. I wish this hadn't happened at all, and on the off chance they see this - thank you Hector for all the kind words. I'm grateful to have known you, and godspeed for whatever you endeavour to do out there in the wide world

[zhijinghaofromchina]

Will the four guys have a chance to come back again?  It seems that the moderator just banned the account… will the ip got banned too? Or, I’ve noticed that if one has been banned, he can also comeback will a new ID and nobody will notice…The last time maximum spin was banned, few days later he returned back magically, just like Jesus, that’s incredible, maybe he is the first guy returned back from the bay 12 death penalty safe and sound.

If they won’t come back, the ancient poem below is enough to express my sorrows.
亲戚或余悲，他人亦已歌。
死去何所道，托体同山阿。

Hoping that their forbidden will make our forum a more welcoming and enjoyable place.

[wobbly]

Without dumpster fires there would be no dumpster toast.

Hector admitted to trolling people, but I've trolled people (who I knew and thought would take it in the intended spirit). Seems their main crimes were inserting themself in someone else's fight and not understanding that a locked thread means stop fighting, rather than go fight in the adjacent room.

I'll miss Ameripol (until the next), in between the arguments people post stuff that doesn't make my local news or gives me a perspective on stuff I read from the American point of view. Main thread I read (but only because the other regions political threads have near zero activity.)

[Starver]

Or, I’ve noticed that if one has been banned, he can also comeback will a new ID and nobody will notice…

Without wanting to declare 'policy' for any particular place (let alone here), there are of course multiple levels of official displeasure, and multiple ways to get back to the fold (officially sanctioned and sanctionable, alike[1]).

Some... offenders... seem keen to come back to places with "It's me again!"-type replacement usernames. Depending upon who is enforcing things (and what offending took place) this might be an allowable return or a "kick on sight" prompt. If the me-again account summarily offends-again in the exact same way, then tolerance will often wear thinner than a graphene negligé. If they have learnt not to step over the line, and ideally not to even go anywhere near it, then... no problem... and the penalty can stay at losing their "history" (good, as well as bad) from the old identity.

Coming back as an alternative username has the same issues, only then the admins may or may not have to rely on other reasons to connect the new with the old (it could even be part of the deal: come back, but make it a completely blank slate, at least until they show a willingness to stay reformed; also maybe there was a mutual antagonism involved, and the lesser antagonistic party deserves to be let back in without being immediately trolled or subtly provoked by the other, ban-evading, offender in fuller disguise).

Back-as-you-were is always going to be tough judgement call. And even more a "fool.me once, shame on me; fool me twice, shame on you" situation.


Anyway, can't and won't speak of what the great Toad can/will/should do(/have done) in any situation, or especially this one. I'd rather he not be distracted by all this, really, but life marches on and keeps on surprising us. I've had my finger on actual ban-buttons in the past (a long time ago, although the last time I was banned, anywhere, was even lot longer, unless I'm forgetting some other indiscretion), and I'm in no hurry to have that responsibility again...




[1] Ok, perhaps I should have said "prescribed and proscribed", as more easily understood opposite meanings.

[Mathel]

Crazy drivers are crazy.

I was just coming back from vacation today.
I was driving on the highway, going top permitted speed and overtaking some slower cars.
Another car was driving about 2m behind me.
I saw this, and when there was a gap in the cars to the right (right drive country), I wanted to merge into the slower lane to let the crazy dude through.
But instead, he went into the right lane, overtook me from the right, went back in front of me, and sped away.

All this while I was going top permitted speed.

[Akura]

I thought I was the only one thinking that people were driving more crazy lately.


Overheard the attention whore manager talking to some of the other employees about why they hire Hispanics only now - and yes, this confirms that this really is an explicit policy. Basically, he said that a few white hires didn't take well to the idea of a full time workweek and were too lazy, so the company decided to go with Hispanics only. I really wish I had noticed the conversation(I was too busy working) earlier so I could pull out my phone to record it. And not 2 minutes after this, in walks in one of our most recent hires who takes an hour on 10-minute tasks, and constantly complains that everything is too hard for her.

[Great Order]

Crazy drivers are crazy.

I was just coming back from vacation today.
I was driving on the highway, going top permitted speed and overtaking some slower cars.
Another car was driving about 2m behind me.
I saw this, and when there was a gap in the cars to the right (right drive country), I wanted to merge into the slower lane to let the crazy dude through.
But instead, he went into the right lane, overtook me from the right, went back in front of me, and sped away.

All this while I was going top permitted speed.

Yeah that's not unusual. Not common, but undertaking by nutters who want to go 100 on a 70 road is a common enough occurrence over here.

What gets me going is the morons who don't understand that a country road with no dividing line isn't one-way, you still need to stick to your side of the road. Also yes, there's a hedge. You'd better go within half a meter of it or we'll hit each other, which is much worse than your car having the slightest risk of getting scratched by the branches.

Also pedestrians. I swear roads do something to people and their apparent IQ drops by about 20 points. Crossing without looking or listening, walking in the middle of the road, refusing to get over when there's a car coming both ways right by them and the road's barely big enough for the cars at the best of times. Also the handful of suicidal ones who just walk behind your car as you're reversing out of a spot.