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zip.1

Trad climber

Pacific Beach, CA

Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 14, 2011 - 10:47am PT

Tried to respond to a post yesterday, and that is the auto response i got.

It appears that i have been banned.

Auto response also gave an e mail address to contact w/questions. I sent an e mail, but got no response.

Do moderators generally ban without any contact?

The poster formally known as Zip.

Douglas Rhiner

Mountain climber

Truckee , CA

Sep 14, 2011 - 10:48am PT

Well the ban doesn't work that well.......

Norwegian

Trad climber

Placerville, California

Sep 14, 2011 - 10:55am PT

your avatar is borne again.
you've been washed of your former sivil cins.

make holy claims of tainted beverage and you shall be received.

Fish Finder

Social climber

THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART

Sep 14, 2011 - 11:26am PT

Sometimes the forces are larger than life.

One minute your here and nobody notices ,
the next minute your gone and nobody notices.

Im sure its just all a big mix-up

this just in

climber

north fork

Sep 14, 2011 - 11:28am PT

That's bullshit zip. Probably ban me now too.

zip.1

Trad climber

Pacific Beach, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2011 - 11:38am PT

Locker,

yep, it's me, and proof that u don't need a blue butt plug to get the axe.

Edit: or maybe it isn't me, and really fake Russ or fake Coz.

nita

Social climber

chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.

Sep 14, 2011 - 11:57am PT

Maybe ..you were a bit too crude on the thread you put up yesterday...

Crude,(krood) (of language, behavior, or a person) offensively coarse or rude, esp. in relation to sexual matters : a crude joke. See note at rude .

My truth....... i didn't complain..but... i did not think it was funny..

dang, number #13.

zip.1

Trad climber

Pacific Beach, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2011 - 12:08pm PT

Nita,

thx for your input.

no offense was intended, but yes it was crude.

if someone really took offense to it, i wish they would have contacted me, and i would have deleted it.

not to make excuses, but due to injuries received in a motorcycle versus truck accident, i am confined to a chair, and my bed. just bored, frustrated, and a little pissed off right now.

sorry if i offended.

Jaybro

Social climber

Wolf City, Wyoming

Sep 14, 2011 - 12:15pm PT

maybe someone can share it with us so we can decide.

Edit: I wasn't implying that we had a voice in this I was just curious, train wreck style

Hardman Knott

Gym climber

Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca

Sep 14, 2011 - 12:21pm PT

What thread and what was posted? The gist of it would be fine.

And why in Sam Hill is LEB back posting 20+ times a day???????1111

klk

Trad climber

cali

Sep 14, 2011 - 12:23pm PT

it was mirror thread to a thread about heroin. the original heroin thread was taken down. not surprised that the mirror thread followed.

and i am not surprised that owners of this site-- whose purpose is, after all, to market climbing guides and instructional manuals to a heavily newby audience that includes youngsters and gym moms --yanked both those threads.

honestly, i'm surprised by how much snakepit stuff c-mac allows on here. this place has become a freak show. at some point, the calculation that brand damage outweighs brand benefit is going to happen.

jstan

climber

Sep 14, 2011 - 12:34pm PT

You cannot search on words with only 3 letters. So I can't pull up the problem thread easily. Next time go by zzip?

squishy

Mountain climber

Sac town

Sep 14, 2011 - 12:36pm PT

Hey zip, your mentality is welcome over at this place..

http://mountainsnstuff.org

zip.1

Trad climber

Pacific Beach, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2011 - 12:38pm PT

i don't have an issue with the thread being deleted, if it was generally considered offensive.I think it was far tamer than a lot of the garbage that gets posted here.

i just don't think i should have been banned, but it is not my rules or my site, so be it.

think if i ate 50 Ambien, that would do the trick?

Jaybro

Social climber

Wolf City, Wyoming

Sep 14, 2011 - 12:50pm PT

New virtual campfire, squish?

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

-A community of hairless apes

Sep 14, 2011 - 12:53pm PT

What a fine looking chap, appearing to be smart, compassionate, with Democratic leanings, too, I might add.

No way should he be "deactivated" permanently.

Maybe for a day is all. Or two days to really rub in the salt.

My 2 cents.

.....

Oh, and while we're at it, imho, anyone who EVER EVER post a picture of a pile of poop on supertopo should be deactived for a month, minimum. Tittays okay.

Chris McNamara

SuperTopo staff member

Sep 14, 2011 - 01:04pm PT

One option A) would be when posts get really bad, start a dialogue. Write out emails that detail how people have been inappropriate and remind people what the forum policy is and what the rules are. Give two week bans. Follow up. Repeat when the person tries to push the edge again. Generally spend time policing.

But the other option, B) that so far we think works best, is to keep a pretty open forum. Tolerate some stuff in the gray area, but when things go CLEARLY over the line, ban the account.

The problem with the policing model is it takes lots of time. We are a tiny company. We work on a shoe-string budget to make the site as good as we can. There are a lot of things we want to do to improve the site to make it better for you all. If we spent time policing the forum, it would take away from that.