Banned Members

[pumpkin]

I dedicate this song, Sail On, to those who departed us ...

[pumpkin]

Another member has been banned:  mathaHeert

By now, the rules should be clear.
-- don't spam the main forum page
-- creating 3 threads is a bit much, 6 is pushing it, and 10+ will get you banned
-- if you want to post lots of threads at once, that's what The Special Abode is for

We haven't banned any members before this since March, so we're doing good...

[pumpkin]

Billycop is banned.

We went 3 months without banning anyone, then we banned 2 members in the past few days.  Billycop was creating way too many threads in a short period on the main forum front page.

There are 10 members now banned out of 400+ accounts.  That's not bad!  People ought to understand the rules of a forum before they join and post.  Don't go crazy on the main forum front page.  If you feel the need to post many, many threads, that's what The Special Abode is for.

[pumpkin]

Two more members are off to the penalty box today: CarloLayef and GregoryBag.

Between them, they posted about 50 threads in Russian advertising AI "undress" tools, the kind that fake nude pictures of real people from ordinary photos. That breaks rule #6: no nonconsensual intimate images, real or AI-generated, and no ads or links for undress or "nudify" tools. (A third account, Jesseboymn, posted one of these back in June.) The threads have been moved to the Moderators' Lounge, and both accounts are banned for two years.

We give a lot of leeway around here. Sports jerseys, game gold, even the occasional Amazon pitch get a pass. Faking nudes of people doesn't. -- pumpkin