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@Trevp666

Gets a temporary ban for the rest of the weekend.

He's already been told very clearly that his needling comments about what he views as political correctness are unwelcome here.

And we're too busy to enter into correspondence right now.

Edit: now unbanned.
 
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A Green Warning has been issued to @blessmycottonsocks for attempting to derail the Jimmy Saville thread with a discussion of drag queens in schools.

Culture Wars are off the menu here; anybody who regularly tries to serve them up will be banned.

Regular members with full knowledge of our previous announcements will receive even shorter shrift.

There is no scope for negotiation on this point.
 
@Trevp666 is banned.

As usual, this comes at the end of a long line of nudges, private messages and on-thread cautions, but they've all met a stubborn inability to change the way he uses this board and a frustrating habit of pointing out how his own faults are not as great as a variety of others.

He has made and been on the receiving end of literally dozens of reports that have ultimately wasted too much of our time. He was put on final notice by @stu neville some months ago, but as the latest exchanges show, he is simply unable to pass over the opportunity to ride his favoured hobby horses.

We honestly don't like pulling the plug on any long-term member, but this one refused to get on board with our aims for the community.
 
A Green Warning has been issued to @Steven for his comments on the Fortean States and Sculptures thread.

We may or may not share his view that the British government is composed of 'assorted disgusting fascist pillocks', but the moderators have voiced the forum's official stance on politics often enough that he will have seen our policy on the matter.

This is not a borderline case.
 
@uair01 has been issued an amber warning.

As he has been informed privately, many of us have found his contributions to the board valuable and entertaining for years, but there is zero flexibility in our prohibition against politics, so his recent post concerning the irony of the Prime Minister's recent appearances has been removed.

The fact that the post was prefaced (as with the last post of his that garnered a warning) with an acknowledgment that he knew he was about to post about politics despite our request not to only seems to make the matter slightly worse: we (well, 'I' in this case) have to spend time sending messages, logging actions, alerting other mods and typing this!

Please, as I've now typed on this thread a handful of times: we don't say your criticisms of politicians are valid or invalid, fair or unfair, we just ask you to make them elsewhere so this board doesn't become that kind of place.
A custom double-warning (2 points; 3 months) has been issued to @uair01 for both (a) posting about 'politics' and (b) baiting the mods by noting it as 'politics'.

As previously announced, noting the prohibited status of content posted provides no excuse and no protection for the consequences of posting prohibited content.

Same thing again.

@uair01 has been issued a warning for attempting to wrap up electoral campaigning using video of Donald Trump's father as an example of necromancy (because he's dead...)

Really.

Although the warning is only Green (because previous warnings have expired), the fact that he has now been asked privately and twice officially to stop doing this kind of thing means that the next step is a ban of as-yet-undetermined duration.

We would very much prefer not to have to do that.
 
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