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Glad you bumped this Margey otherwise I may have missed it.

I view it pretty much the same way as Tooth Fairy's last post.  And much as their post was funny and made me laugh , it's not really that funny when you're trying to get your head around the inconsistancies.

It's ok if some permanently banned members sneak back but not others?  Why is that?

Let everyone back - an amnesty plus a Sin Bin for cooling off periods.

Quite frankly the wind-up merchants and trolls are no worse than the mood hoovers, the pious and the baiters.  There's room for everyone on here.
Cosmopolitan
In the absence of any great pearls of wisdom from those who Twitter and Tweet can we ask that those who moderate in here give some consideration to the concerns of both the OP and those who have helped to make this a sensible discussion?

My thoughts exactly. With BB an option on C5 this year and very few posters on here i think moderation needs to be looked into. DS seems to have the market as far as forums go with loads of others going down. What ever happened to the US contingency we were suposed to get on here? Non existent. Controll members but dont ban em for life else this will end up in the same place as all the other BB forums, the graveyard.
FM
Reference:
Wellllllllllllllll.......this is where I ended up: http://twitter.com/gagajoyjoy (Thanks Jonesy et al xx) But it's all a load of promo's for threads here..? I guess you have to register to get the full 'benefit' and I'm not sure that I want to right now.

That's not the real one apparently.  Well it was but just promo discussion stuff, as you said.

This is one of 'em. Under the real name, oddly enough. 

http://twitter.com/#!/gagajoy
FM
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Being banned for life on a forum is too harsh? I wanted to do a poll on this but did not know how ...my poll would have been.. Two strikes and your out. Mods should turn a blind eye if things get heated. Ban for life should mean life. Two strikes and you are out but the maximum ban is six months. ...........................................................................................................
 My view is the latter as we can all learn by our mistakes. It would be nice if there could be amnesty and all those who have been banned and could be given a second chance there has been some nice FMS banned for life because of heated arguements in threads... I would be interested to know what others think ..Thank you


Right, well after that amusing little diversion, I feel obliged to bump Marge's original post.
Cosmopolitan
I think it should be a moderator discretion type situation.  The C4 mods, were good in that they used their discretion on who was banned for good after the three strikes had been used up.

Whilst I think a ban for life is a bit harsh for just mucking about the threat of it can work well. I know peeps who were banned 5 times

Indeed some peeps were Temps but their principal failing was that there was only one of them (C4 Mods) who listened, the other buggers never did.  Some would tantalize you with promises of freedom from the confining chains in the dark dungeons under mods towers then they would go off shift and one of the deaf 'uns would come on and chuck the key back into the moat.  And the three strikes were pretty arbitrary as well.  Depends who was on and who said what when boppings were administered

I never liked them because they would not listen to reason.  I am therefore anxious that the same tendencies don't develop here.  Which is why the post by Marge needs to start a dialogue between the Proletariat and the Plebians, not just the Proles speaking to each other for the sake of making noise.  Perhaps it could involve the Patricians as well.
Tooth Fairy
lol Tooth Fairy, I was bopped 3 times and never got to know the mods or what their particular style was 

It very much depended on who said what and whether it was just a one off from a particular FM.  From my memory it worked:

1 Strike 1 = 3 or so days
2 Strike 2 = 5 or so days
3 Strike 3 = till they felt you've suffered enough
5 Strike 4 = gone.

They always seemed pretty standard, but there were exceptions and as long as you pleaded and pleaded and left plenty of sausages
Temps
I pleaded and pleaded and found out where the Mods sat and went to their building Temps , it was near to the River in London, just off the Embankment as I recall.

If your face fitted you were back in and if you had the stupidity nerve  to  piss them off, or even to plead on behalf of some other poor sod you were rattling the chains for a long time.  Some people could say rudies and survive, some people could not even slip in a double entendre and they had their head stuck on a spike.  In today's modern trendy forum world where the mods are not looking over their shoulder in case C4 got sued for our attempts at humour I think that there could be a more generous approach by the mods.
Tooth Fairy
Wellllllllllllllll.......this is where I ended up:  http://twitter.com/gagajoyjoy
(Thanks Jonesy et al xx)

But it's all a load of promo's for threads here..?   I guess you have to register to get the full 'benefit' and I'm not sure that I want to right now.

I just googled Twitter and searched for GaGaJoyJoy and it came up with no results? So how did you come up with your link?
FM

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