We try to be as hands off as possible when moderating the forums, our goal is to let people say what they want without their opinions having to be moderated. Sadly lately there have been a select few posters who have chronically done nothing but spam the forums with nonsense. Anyone that was banned was banned for a specific reason.
SFGAM76 was banned because none of his posts made any sense at all and made no effort towards being grammatically correct. I personally sent him several messages asking him to write in complete sentences and use punctuation. You can only ask somebody so many times before you need to put an end to it. This, for example, was a typical SFGAM76 post
so what we know so far that seven sins is coming back but who's gonna have the mayor slayor hearse the same one or a fake i know there is probably gonna be a fake but i hope they somehow they get him back.
Bobbinbop decided not to be a member of the boards anymore. We deleted two pictures off of one of his trip reports for being offensive and he got upset and asked for his account to be de-activated. I consider him a good member of the forums and is welcome to come back anytime.
Hypercoastergurl was banned because all of her posts were aimed directly at attacking the site and advertising another site. We decided to ignore it at first, then she posted again saying how horrible our forums are, we don't know anything, and she knew what she was talking about. That's just arrogant.
Flying potato man was given a 1 day ban for engaging in a mindless personal conversation that made our forum look like a 12 year old girls myspace page. When his 1 day ban is up his account is still active so if he wants to come back and post he can.
david was banned for several reasons. First, we warned him several times about slandering what people say when he quotes people. There were quotes in his signature that were from Mark Shapiro, Al Weber, etc that they never even said so we asked him to take those out and he copped an attitude. Then it happened again when he misquoted another member in a quote box. When people called him out on it, again, he copped an attitude. This resulted in getting a 1 day ban. When he came back from that he engaged in another completely retarded discussion that made our forum look like a 12 year old girls myspace page (see above) and that was the last straw. After a history of letting things slide with him (useless topics, bad grammar, arguing with moderators in private messages, etc) we all finally agreed to just ban him.
Hope that clears up some confusion.
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 9:57 am
But he made a new forum for roller coaster fanatics who like to just have fun, and not have to get upset because some people are just having a little fun.