Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
I actually hardly got any sleep the day before so I was super tired, and actually went to bed at 6pm. This went on for hours while I was sleeping, and I was woken up when I got a barrage of texts about it at about 10:30pm or whatever. I got texts before that too, but I guess I slept through them because I was so tired.
The last thing I felt like doing was waking up at that point handling this, but I had to. This is exactly the type of shit I DON'T want to deal with here. I've always had a sore spot about people who try to fuck up my forum -- whether malicious or to prove a point. If I'm not around to fix it, the forum is basically ruined for most of an entire day. If I'm unavailable (sleeping, on the road, busy), then I have to drop everything and handle it. It's one thing if this is done by Russian spambots or people who hate me. It's another if it's done by longtime users.
I had to not only clean all of this up, but also make a snap decision regarding how I'd handle possible bannings/restrictions. I decided I would take action based upon various factors, some of which had to do with the number of junk threads created, and some of which had to do with other criteria.
At first I thought I'd simply disable thread-starting for everyone involved, but I realized they could just go forth and start bombing existing threads, and I didn't want to have to wake back up a second time and deal with it.
I eventually landed upon post banning the four worst offenders, and simply posting a public warning to everyone else (without naming names) to cut it out. However, after a short time, jsearles sent me an obnoxious PM taunting me about the entire thing, which I didn't appreciate. I also found that sonatine intentionally broke two other rules on the forum prior to all the thread spamming. As a result I gave them a temp full ban, which automatically expires after 3 days. That will stand in both cases.
big dick, on the other hand, sent me a PM after he got banned, telling me that he didn't mean any harm, and that he was simply trying to prove a point. While I'm still unhappy about what he did, I can at least agree that it wasn't malicious on his part. Therefore, I will restore his access now.
The fourth person post-banned is welcome to PM me if he would like to be considered for restoration as well.
So let it be written, so let it be done.