TOPIC: VERY IMPORTANT: For Consideration By PD Members subject: Banning
Should we ban membership for tripp park proud/city reporter/thomasthetank, is this person making a contribution or is he just trying to disrupt the flow of this forum? [8 vote(s)]
This is a poll being taken to find out if the membership wants to consider banning someone from posting from PD. I know that I have said that I would not consider banning someone from posting here .... however I have had 2 members ask about this now.Here is the Private message I received from a member today:
From: **** Subject: Maybe we should consider banning? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If Tripp/cityureporter/frank the tank want to post and rag on me or the DPW or whoever, that's fine. I'm a big boy, and there might be a shred of a point in those anti DPW posts. But if ALL he's going to do is crap in threads, maybe a banning isn't really such a bad thing. He can't call it a denial of his freedom of speech, because he doesn't really say anything.Maybe we could put bannings up for a vote. Simple yes or no. He gets nominated, a poll thread gets started, and there is a 48 hour voting limit. Majority rules. Very democratic-like. Maybe the ""nominee", whoever it would be, and thier posting priveliges/ IP address get suspended during that time to prevent spamming and alternate IDs padding the vote.
There also was a post in a thread suggesting that we should consider banning. I am going to take the suggestion made in this private message and I will be suspending the posting rights of thomasthetank for a period of 3 days and will then make my decision based on the results of the poll attached ... please let me know your feelings on this as majority rules here at PD.Thank you for your input and know that I take all suggestions seriously ... I want this to be a better place to post.
-- Edited by LusOnlyVoice at 16:15, 2007-02-26
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I want everyone to stop and think about one thing ... Joe Pilchesky is not a lawyer ... he's just a guy playing a lawyer on the internet. Please don't trust your legal needs to this man.
I voted no because it's what he wants us to do. Then he can cry we are hypocrites for banning his childish behavior. Let him rave who cares?? lol lol. We can always edit anything out which is offensive. He isn't anything more than a annoyance. Hey Lus remember our Bob Barker friend from the old board?? Same thing here....annoying, juvenile but harmless.
I do remember ... and you know what I think that Tripp Park is Bob Barker ... what do you think ... I have to go through this process and see what the membership says though ... it's not only my board it belongs to all of us and it was a reasonable request as most moderators have been spending a lot of time editing out the Tripp Park Posts ... so we shall see what happens ... we have 17 members ... majority will rule.
I personally find him very amusing. Kind of like him. I liked Bob Barker also.
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I want everyone to stop and think about one thing ... Joe Pilchesky is not a lawyer ... he's just a guy playing a lawyer on the internet. Please don't trust your legal needs to this man.
See?? You know this joker is starting to sound familair to me. Sounds like our Sainted Jan may have misplaced someone in her family. Ohhhhh Miss Jan do you know where your honey is?
Posts: 18 Date: Mon Feb 26 4:18 PM, 2007 Views: 32 Yesssss Just GOT BANNED OVER THERE OH NO NOW MEMBERSHIP IS DOWN TO 7 AHAHAHAHAHA OH AND THURS. YOU SLOB YOU FORGOT ONE NAME EDUCATED IN DA SCRANTON SKOOL DIST HAHAHAHAHAH
I want everyone to stop and think about one thing ... Joe Pilchesky is not a lawyer ... he's just a guy playing a lawyer on the internet. Please don't trust your legal needs to this man.
When we'd go to DD, we'd refute something. We'd have a position. We'd defend it over there if the old man didn't have such a quick trigger finger. That's what we're doing here.
Frank the Tank's posts are nothing more than "Hey Look at me I'm on teh internets!"
And he wasn't even banned yet.
I think it's funny that everyone over there appears to be distancing themselves from him. You know he went over there looking for a heroic reception, as if he single handedly won the Super Bowl or something, but if we're such a "wannabe site", then how glorious could his "banning" have been?
...while I dispise the fact that he is flaming Paul and Thursday, you almost expect that kind of nonsense from DD sheep ...with every lame-ass posting, he simply proves what we say all the time: the DD crew have no interest in discussions that center around logic and reasoning ...banning him simply gives him this surreal 'Red Badge of Courage' that he can boast about ...I have a fondness for the Springer-esque
However, he has not been flaming me, so I do understand if Paul and Thursday feel differently.
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Free Speech does't require a multi-paragrah disclaimer Mr. Pilchesky.
What was Bulwer's pasted post about? Now what the hell did I forget?
I'll stand behind your decision, Lus, but simply for the comic relief, I say keep him. I have a thick skin, I can take being called names from the likes of him. And if it does happen to be my fancy-pants, manly-man - weh-heeelllll ...
He's a complete assbag, a real loser. He has already posted on DD.com that he was banned from here - but Joe promptly banned him and deleted the post.
I say we let the moron stay, but erase - not edit - any posts that don't follow the rules. He'll get bored and leave or eventually shape up. Either way we win.
It appears that I'm the only one to vote yes. I imagine the other vote was from TPP himself. It seems pretty clear that the trend is to not ban. It doesn't need to go the full three days if you don't want it to.
OK, that's cool. Democracy in action. As long as he follows the rules. I don't care what he posts about, and I wasn't even upset that he tried insulting me (as if I could be insulted by a total stranger on a public message board--see my correction of his misspelling of "panties"). My issue was with his juvenille behavior, ignoring repeated warnings not only from myself but fom others to post in a reasonable font size (and citing the rules of conduct while doing so), and the one trick pony show he brought with him. TPP/cityreporter/thomasthetank doesn't like the DPW. OK, we get it. What else you got?
I like how this worked out, though. This should remain an option for the most blatant of violators.
I have no issue with (whatever clever screen name he choses this time) being allowed to resume posting. Again, provided he follows the rules of contact.
As Paul has noticed our trend here is to not ban ... unless it is something that the entire membership wants ... so I will give TPP back his posting rights.
Thank you all for your input in this very important decision.
And I agree with Art ... if TPP breaks the rules of conduct in anyway his posts will be deleted. If he decides he wants to post here again ... he may decide against it. Who knows!
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I want everyone to stop and think about one thing ... Joe Pilchesky is not a lawyer ... he's just a guy playing a lawyer on the internet. Please don't trust your legal needs to this man.
Give the poor s.o.b. enough rope to hang himself. I think no matter what name he chooses, the context and style will be the same and very obvious. Just don't allow him to pull the "same old same old" they pull across the hall.
Howevah ... if he mentions :::ack::: Mayor Evans, CAN HIS ASS !
He did not lose his name when he was temporarily banned ... so I imagine that if he makes the choice to post again that he will again be thomasthetank.
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I want everyone to stop and think about one thing ... Joe Pilchesky is not a lawyer ... he's just a guy playing a lawyer on the internet. Please don't trust your legal needs to this man.