Infraction for Old Geezer: 17) Permanent Ban

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User: Old Geezer
Infraction: 17) Permanent Ban
Points: 1000

Administrative Note:

Permanent ban for lengthy pattern of various problems

Message to User:

Old Geezer, you have had more infractions than any other user. It is very rare for a poster to not get permabanned once they reach their third page of infractions, and yours has now reached six. By my count (not including reversed infractions or bans/warnings before the tracking system was implemented) you have been warned fifteen times and banned nine times. Worse, you show no sign of stopping.

Your favorite tricks are threadcrapping when others dare to run games in a manner you don’t approve of, or to make sexual references in inappropriate contexts. You’ve been told to stop both of these many times, and you just keep doing them. Also, sometimes you just randomly threadcrap or insult people.

Here is a list of some of your past bans and warnings, to illustrate the issues we've been having with your posting.

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October 2009. Losing it at another poster over something about bad GMs.
November 2009, personal attack.
November 2010, warning for being aggressively patronizing.
January 2011. Personal attack (although not unprovoked), and a flounce.
May 2012. Delayed blast ban from telling the forum to go fuck themselves/ourselves.
January 2013, warning for excessive snark.
March 2013, warning for just outright admitting that you're trolling people.
April 2013, basically goes apeshit on a dude.
May 2013, threadcrapping.
May 2013. This was just wildly inappropriate.
May 2013. Suggesting women players resolve their differences via mud wrestling.
May 2013. Threadcrapping, repeated violations.
June 2013, personal attacks.
November 2013, more personal attacks.
December 2013. At this point, we've started treating comments like "also, tits" or "hurr hurr hurr" as threadcrapping, because it's tiresome.
February 2014. Group attacks.
March 23, 2014. Received warning from JamesCat as follows: "OK, this whole routine where you put down or pretend not to understand other people's gaming decisions in your own posts and then get snide or offended when other people even hint that they might not enjoy your style stops, or you get permabanned. This is an official warning, adding to an already very long list of infractions."
September 2014. One week off for needlessly hostile and accusatory posting.
September 2014, warning for threadcrapping.
March 2015. Continuation of the pattern of denigrating other play styles, two weeks off.
April 2015, day off for being rude to Cerulean Lion for no reason.
May 2015, directly instructed to knock off the "hurr hurr hurr" type jokes.

At the time of your last six-month ban, Richard Clayton told you:

Old Geezer, we've reached a kind of tipping point here. On the one hand, a lot of folks enjoy your commentary and your experiences. On the other, it's troubling that you don't seem to understand that "hurr hurr joke" is not an excuse for gross, offensive humor or threadcrapping, nor is one-true-wayism acceptable (as it inevitably leads to threadcrapping). The modstaff doesn't want to permaban you, but it's becoming clear that you're just not getting what the problem is.

You're banned for six months. If, at the end of that time, you're able to respect and follow the rules of the forum, we're happy to have you back.

Now you’re back, and back to your old tricks again. You have made it very clear that you think the rules that everyone else follows do not apply to you. This is not attached to any specific post to make it clear that the ban is on the basis of a pattern of behavior going back for several years.

You are permanently banned from this forum. Appeals may be sent to admin.rpgnet@gmail.com