What does it take for someone to be actually banned here
 

I've read the forum rules but there are people breaking them here constantly and i never see anyone get banned.

What does it actually take for someone to be banned?

I've wondered the exact same thing...

It could just be that a lot of people have pictures/videos of mods and admins in compromising situations. :trazz:

(Hope THAT'S not enough to get me banned. The joke, I mean, not the actual committing of such blackmail.)

I'm fairly certain that a poster's overall behavior on the forums is taken into account when the mods are issuing bans. Having multiple accounts is perma-ban material; I imagine temp bans are up to the mods' discretion. *shrugs*

The Gods Have Abandoned This Place.

Frankly... I say go with it. "Freedom" is simply an existence with no consequences. The Wild West was by far the greatest time and place in the entirety of human history, because all "laws" were suggestions, authority figures were nothing but corrupt bureaucrats who were either completely impotent or completely bought and paid for, and most importantly, you could shoot a guy dead in the face just for pissing you off, and if you had enough friends nobody would say a word about it. Those with both initiative and intelligence thrived and survived, while the weak were killed off or plain left to rot.

I've always been very, very sad that we as a society got away from that.

So, we're in the TMNT Forum equivalent of the Wild West. I'm fine with that.

"Do as thou wilt."

Sometimes I wish I lived back then. But then I remember outhouses and the lack of air conditioning.

This is how it should be. This is how it should always be.

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Like that time the one guy asked me why I had a Speed Racer tattoo so I slit his throat and dumped him in a shallow grave next to an IHOP.

I mean c'mon. That's a really stupid thing to ask someone. I mean if you don't already know the answer, well... consequences. :tgrin:

Honestly who knows anymore

I think of this place more like Deadwood - we've got a sheriff for the major crimes but they don't step in for barroom brawls. To be sure, every once in a while someone will get shot in the face, but their body usually just gets fed to the pigs and we all carry on and pretend it never happened. :lol:

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The only person I saw banned recently is SuperGoku's alternate accounts for constantly coming back.

Dammit, now I'm a cannibal by proxy. I thought those pigs were getting awfully big...

And Davetello.

Oh, the mods aren't gone.... we're just waiting in the wings. :evilgrin:

I don't get on here much due to my job, as I'm sure it's the same for the others. But we still get the reported posts and come deal with things as needed.

We don't want Wild West nonsense here, but we're not going to chokehold this place. As long as people are decent to each other, I see no issues.

Except Leo... he's always a pain in the butt. :P :D

I please to aim.

Well that's downright fascinating. I've reported some egregious-ass posts over that past year or so, and to my knowledge, nothing is ever done about them.

They're probably just backlogged. I know for a fact I get reported by some nerd or other about 75 times a day, so once they sift through all that nonsense who has the time or the energy to deal with anything else? I sympathize.

Not that I've reported you, but just wondering, are you contacted via PM by mods or anything like that?

As in ever in my life? Sure. As in regularly, no, almost never. I think maybe 5 times, ever.

I would probably get more grief, but I know exactly how long my leash is, therefore nobody ever has to yank it. The few times I was contacted I absolutely knew it was coming because in the moment I said whatever I said to warrant it, I wasn't in a point of caring about the consequences. Usually I'll actually reach out to them first if I think I've over-stepped.

There's a lot of mutual understanding. They understand that I have nothing but the lowest contempt for any and all figureheads of "authority", and I understand I have to nonetheless try and set an example because I'm one of the "Locker Room Leaders" around here, so I willingly comply with the helpful suggestions that they label as "Rules" because I genuinely like them as people and don't want to willingly pile on to everything they already deal with.

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Same here.

I believe most reports I've given have been properly dealt with. Sometimes they are rather late, but the mods do their job frequently.