Bans/Ban Evasions

average · April 30, 2006, 09:11:11 PM

Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on April 30, 2006, 08:59:37 PM
whaaa me? the chocolate or the fed-ex? OR is it the chocolate covered fedex guy?

Hey pandy, I'm chocolate

(by nature of course)

john · April 30, 2006, 11:12:05 PM

If I wasn't so busy with finals I would drill down through IP's and bann the lot of them.

Be civil people. Just because somebody asks a dumb/comon question does not mean it's a free-for-all to torment them.

f%$k! Can't you kids be civil?

natedawg120 · May 01, 2006, 04:52:10 AM

haha yeah i can see why jumping all over noobs or noods is bad. I just point them n the right direction and inform them of ways to find the things that they are asking.

Oh and pandy, you know you love the chocolate covered fed-ex guys

My Name Is Dave · May 01, 2006, 09:55:03 AM

I was gonna say this in a new thread, but I'll just throw it out here-

I wanna apologize to everyone on the forum for getting involved in that TMB spectacle. I can't say that I feel bad for any particular comments, just for saying anything at all. Period. I should have let it go, but she really bothered me and I took the bait. She emailed me to my personal account and pretty much proved everything I already thought about her, and I'm leaving it as that.

I respect everyone on this forum, and especially the moderators and people who have to help run it while dealing with this type of shaZam!. So I should have sat back and watched, rather than getting involved.

Again, I can't say that I feel bad for a certain comment, but rather just that I even commented in the first place.

So hopefully things will blow over and get back to normal. This site rules.

Dave

RVertigo · May 01, 2006, 11:24:04 AM

This is just another case of something a lot of us learned a few months back... You'll notice that it's mostly the newer members doing it...

Yes... We see the same threads from newbs all the time... But, we were all newbs, so cut 'em a friggen' break.

My Name Is Dave · May 01, 2006, 11:31:49 AM

It seems that people have been doing that more lately. If someone asks a common question, rather than just replying and telling them to search, they'll say "here's what I found with a quick search:..." and post some links to help answer the question. So while the reply may sound a little snotty, at least there's still usefullness to it.

Dave

Unnamed · May 01, 2006, 11:33:56 AM

I wonder if a Sith lord could send electic shocks over the internet. That would be pretty handy sometimes.

ajgs500 · May 01, 2006, 11:50:21 AM

OK I am gonna start off the bat saying that I am is guilty as anyone here. But in our defense everyone who had originally insulted her did apologize to her and answer her question but she wouldnt let it go. If she had in turn apologized to us and asked the question again, and this time more legibily, I am sure that she would have gotten answers that werent mean. Then she created new usernames and totally went off on us, we tried to ignore her, but then she started PMing us and being very rude. And then she created new usernames for the sole purpose of defending her other usernames?

All the while being rude and insulting us still. WE tried to ignore her and change the threads to something a little more fun but still same old shaZam!. To fully understand this debacle on needs to read all of the threads that pertain to this incident which I will provide to you shortly. Needless to say I finally caught her iwith a new username after she had been banned in a complete lie.

http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=26022.0

http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=26039.0

http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=26058.0

http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=26060.0

http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=26112.0

LimaXray · May 01, 2006, 12:10:14 PM

I apologized to her for telling her to search as I wasn't trying to be a jerk, I was trying to be helpful. The thing you don't realize is a lot of people who are new to forums don't understand how powerful the search tool really is, and frankly they can get a lot better info from using it compaired to starting a thread. Anyway, her thread was up for a while and was moving on down the list being mostly ignored, so I wanted to help her out. While I do know a little about framesliders and could have given her some info, I just figured she'd be better off searching and didn't know if she knew that was an option. IMO she would have been short changed if she never did a search on such a broad topic and depended only on the responses by the couple of members.

When I first started with forums I didn't even think about searching and I made the same mistake and someone kindly told me to search. You know what, I'm glad they did, now I realize how powerful of a tool it is

My point is, I see nothing wrong with telling a total noob to search as long as you do it kindly.

My Name Is Dave · May 01, 2006, 12:20:39 PM

Quote from: LimaXray on May 01, 2006, 12:10:14 PM

My point is, I see nothing wrong with telling a total noob to search as long as you do it kindly.

I think that's the issue for people. Doing it kindly rather than being a wiseass about it (again, not saying I'm innocent of that).

And it depends on how familiar with internet forums in general that person is in regards to their reaction. They may use forums a lot and expect the comments about searching, whereas someone like my mom who has never even used one would probably take offense to the responses. I have no idea though...

Dave

RVertigo · May 01, 2006, 12:31:39 PM

Even rolling in and saying, "Hello Sweetie-Pie! There's a great feature called "Search" that will allow you to find all the answers you want" isn't really that helpful...

Most people get pissed off when you tell them to search... Yes, that's their problem, but still...

If you just give them some form of an answer, THEN link to search for "more information" then they have no reason to be pissed.

Jake D · May 01, 2006, 12:52:02 PM

Dude, I've been totally silent on this matter.

TMB sucked. I got into the thread late as hell, after she had called everyone on this board "p*ssies", and called the GS a chick bike, posted a half nude picture of her ass, posted other questionable content, called everyone ass-holes, etc. She used this deplorable slang, horrible spelling. . . just all around difficult to deal with.

I tried to help her. Gave her a good three pages on dog bones, lowering, seat shaving etc. In the end, she was just too combative. She continued to slam the bike, and slam the people here.

She is gone now, and I couldn't care less. I agree: if you show the forum respect, it will show you respect. Period. I've never seen the forum attack somebody that didn't ask for it. TMB asked for it. She was rude to the point of being hurtful. I know pretty much everybody was offended by her.

RVertigo · May 01, 2006, 01:01:55 PM

I know... I get it. She was a complete "See you next Tuesday," but that's part of my point....

I replied in one of her many many many many many threads on lowering... She still didn't get it, so I just ignored the rest of them. None of us should be responsible for making people smarter... But, rather than what I used to do (which was talk shaZam! and say, "SEARCH") I just leave it alone.

I'm pretty sure you did the exact same thing...

If everyone had done that, we would have had four days of

... But, whatever... It's all part of Forums...

Jake D · May 01, 2006, 01:07:26 PM

I never one time told her her search. I answered her questions one after another. Trying to mend that fence. But she was too much to deal with. Please don't suggest I mishandled her. I bent over backwards to try and help her.

RVertigo · May 01, 2006, 01:11:13 PM

Quote from: Jake D on May 01, 2006, 01:07:26 PMPlease don't suggest I mishandled her.

I was trying to suggest that you answered her questions as well as you could... Then ignored the rest when you could handle no more.

Like I did...

I answered one... Then realized the situation had got bad and there was nothing I could do about it... And ignored the whole thing.

Jake D · May 01, 2006, 01:18:26 PM

I when back and reviewed the threads, just to be sure that she didn't post any more nude photos.

LPC2104 · May 02, 2006, 05:36:23 AM

Speaking of bans, do any of the mods know why I got banned last night? I'm thinking it was some sort of glitch, but I was surprised.

pandy · May 02, 2006, 07:17:44 AM

Let it go, guys. Don't let her continue to have any power here. You guys did the very best you knew how to calm her down, but there was no calming her down. Let's just go forward and put this last weekend behind us!

LPC2104: I didn't see a ban for you last night? It's very possible it was a glitch. It's happened to me before, too!

Let us know if you have any further problems, and feel free to contact me offsite if you ever can't get in. You can always IM me, Yahoo = pandyz2010.

st8racin · May 02, 2006, 07:53:23 AM

Ok so I'm a little late with all of this but I do want to add my apology for being an asshat. I live alone and was bored, the treads kept me entertained so I added to them. I'm still a noob too so I really had no useful information to add to any of it. So again I'm sorry for adding fuel to the fire on the whole TMB drama.

My Name Is Dave · May 02, 2006, 07:57:37 AM

Quote from: st8racin on May 02, 2006, 07:53:23 AM
Ok so I'm a little late with all of this but I do want to add my apology for being an asshat. I live alone and was bored, the treads kept me entertained so I added to them. I'm still a noob too so I really had no useful information to add to any of it. So again I'm sorry for adding fuel to the fire on the whole TMB drama.

Being bored/drunk are what I'm gonna blame. Those 2 have never got me into any good situations, just bad ones.

Dave

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