should brtd be banned?

[WalterMitty]

of course not.

inks is being absurd.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I don't think I need to say my answer.

[Lief 🗽]

No, and anyone who proposes as much should themselves be banned.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

No, and anyone who proposes as much should themselves be banned.

So you want Inks banned? Inks wants to ban BRTD.


Anyway, BRTD is a great poster and character. He's too iconic to be banned. But that's what they said about opebo.

Anyway, the other forum icon, BushOklahoma, deserves it more than BRTD, but neither should be banned.

[7,052,770]

Where did Inks say this and what was his rationale?

[memphis]

No, and anyone who proposes as much should themselves be banned.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I was actually sympathetic to Inks until I read that. Now I support banning him entirely. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Where did Inks say this and what was his rationale?

I can understand criticism of Inks's moderation style, but I have no idea why you think that particular list of grievances owes to him.  You think Inks is the most influential moderator?  Lol.

Who then? Demod them. This place is slipping down the tubes thanks to a moderation policy that's completely backward.

All the decisions on who to ban or unban are ultimately made by Dave or Nym.  Dave banned opebo.  Nym unbanned Einzige.  Complain about those decisions to them.  Sure, other mods discuss this stuff with them and influence their decisions, but Inks is no more influential on that score than about a half dozen other people.

Other complaints in Gully's petition are more vague, and I'm not sure who specifically he's talking about, but "extreme liberality taken with some other members of the board despite their constant violations of the ToS"?  I don't know which posters specifically that he's talking about, but I don't think Forum Community is the worst offender in terms of boards where the moderation is too lax.  Inks is hardly "lax" in infracting compared to some of the other boards.  Most of the criticism of Inks has been that he moderates too aggressively, not too leniently.

No-one here is going to believe that Nym and Dave are engaged enough to act unilaterally. We both know that the unbannings of Einzige and Libertas, to use the most obvious examples, would never have happened without the mods inexplicably voting to recommend them to Nym. It's become  clear that a gaggle of mods - as far as I can work out the main offenders are Inks, Ernest and Badger, but it's presumably more - are controlling moderation policy in a shockingly boneheaded way.

Inks' problem isn't that he's too aggressive per se - it's that he's insanely strict about the most banal things, like "profanity", (bizarrely) quoting objectionable posts on this board, or fretting over a mass murderer's copyright privileges -




- while simultaneously, along with what's apparently a majority of the mod team, being absurdly lenient on issues that actually matter.  It took years to ban a pedophile troll because people apparently thought a few thousand "final warnings" would be good enough, and I'm unfortunately not at all optimistic that the failed experiment of Einzige's unbanning will be brought to a close any time soon -- even while he continues to return to his old ridiuclous Nazi pseud persona and posts Deutschland über alles in a thread concerning Poland and the Czech Republic. Tedious spambots like excelsus and NewYorkExpress clog the forum. Rampant misogynists like The Obamanation are allowed to post about "filthy sluts" without fear as long as he doesn't infringe on a serial killer's copyright protections, and, again Einzige II is allowed to post about being a predatory creep and people who quote his disgusting posts here to draw attention to his behaviour are threatened with infraction and punishment. The mods' incomprehensible devotion to defending sexual predators is, just months after the ridiculously convoluted process that was opebo's banning, once again apparent.

I've defended Inks in the past from what I thought where overreactions to a poorly applied but ultimately harmless moderation policy. I no longer believe that the latter point holds true.

No.

LOL. Congratulations on achieving a hitherto unbelievable level of self-parody.

FYI, I was one of the early supporters of an opebo ban but fell on the losing side of the votes until the last time. I also would support banning The Obamanation (and Snowstalker and BRTD, although I doubt I'm in the majority there).

The "filthy sluts" comment wasn't on my board, and I've never advocated banning someone over copyright issues. I mod a single board... how does it make any sense to blame me for what happens on the other 20+ boards or who gets banned/unbanned?

[ElectionsGuy]

No

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

No (normal)

[Lief 🗽]

No, and anyone who proposes as much should themselves be banned.

So you want Inks banned? Inks wants to ban BRTD.

Yes, at this point Inks should be banned.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Hell no.  There is absolutely zero basis for that and Inks pretty much admitted in black and white that he bases his judgments as moderator on personal biases.

[morgieb]

On what basis?

I don't think you can consider his obsessions as trolling, and I don't know what else he does. Only people that would support it have pretty severe personal biases.

[Antonio the Sixth]

lolno

The fact that Inks even suggested that is further proof he's unfit to be a moderator.

[Joe Republic]

Should he be banned?  Eeh, I guess not.

Should he crawl under a rock of his own accord out of pure shame for everything he is and has done to us, and never darken our hallowed forum again?  Absolutely!

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

No.

[free my dawg]

I honestly don't even know what he's done

[windjammer]

Banning BRTD, this is banning the heart and soul of this forum.

So, NO!!!!!

[TDAS04]

Of course not.

[SWE]

There isn't really a case to ban him, unfortunately.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

not a huge fan of brtd but there's no reason to ban him.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

not a huge fan of brtd but there's no reason to ban him.

[Middle-aged Europe]

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j/k, voted "no".

[Simfan34]

of course not.

inks is being absurd.

Surely you will ask about my head too?

maybe inks and simfan should both be banned?

this scandal is boring.

as others have stated, inks takes his moderation duties way too seriously.

I, a right wing democrat, am too strong.

[Paul Kemp]

He may tend to be a tedious man-child but no, of course not. I can't imagine what he could've done to be considered ban worthy in a serious manner. He is a longtime member (Forum Legend, if you will) who has never done anything extraordinarily offensive and is valuable to those who enjoy maps and all that.

Plus his perspective, while equally frustrating and amusing, is at least different from most.

[⛄]

No, brtd is a nice guy.
Who is Inks anyway?

[Badger]

On what basis?

I don't think you can consider his obsessions as trolling, and I don't know what else he does. Only people that would support it have pretty severe personal biases.