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ProgrammingGodJordan has been banned for repeated spamming of topics after threads had been locked.

I don't know that I would necessarily expect two boys (or two girls) to handle the same situation the same way. There is a spectrum of behavior, and it applies within a (traditional) gender, as well as between them.

Downvotes are an entirely separate entity than rules violations.

This distinction is not as clear-cut as you might think it is, or might want it to be. That's probably a discussion to be had in the biology section.

Dan B. has been banned as a sockpuppet of David Levy.

Sammy Boy has been suspended for repeated civility violations. edit: this has been promoted to a full ban on the evidence that this is just another Mikemikev sockpuppet

Anonymous Participant will remain anonymous but no longer be a participant, because enough is enough. Despite whatever self-delusion is there, the rules apply to everyone.

I'm fairly sure he's a native American born, but not a citizen of the US. But the latter is part of the satire.

Anonymous Participant has been suspended for persistent abusive behavior and not really having a clue that he doesn't get to tell moderators how to run the site.

AnubisSight has declared an intention to leave after engaging in some abusive behavior, and we have closed the door behind him.

Another reminder that obvious spam will be taken care of in due course, the next time a moderator or administrator logs in and looks at recent posts. Reporting it just makes more work. Only report it if it's been around for a day or more, as noted above, or if it's posted in an existing thread.

Eldad Eshel has been banned for repeated spamming and soapboxing, and showing no improvement in his adherence to the rules since his earlier suspension

Handy andy has been suspended 3 days for repeated thread hijacking and ignoring mods. ProgrammingGod Jordan has been suspended for repeatedly re-opening threads on closed topics and serial soapboxing.

Promoting of personal web sites is also forbidden. We do have posts that have links such as you describe. A quick glance shows one in math and one in chemistry, and one for science youtube channels.

! Moderator Note This is not the place for conjecture; responses should be mainstream science. This could be discussed in speculations, but you will need a lot more support than just a bald assertion.

adsar2 has been banned as a sockpuppet of xyzt

curiouscat has been banned as a sockpuppet of JohnLesser

! Moderator Note This is posted in a science section. Let's leave deities out of it.

Periodic reminder that getting downvoted/negative reputation is not a call for the report post function to complain. The staff is not going to get involved in such spats in any official capacity. We will assign reputation as regular members as each individual sees fit. Also, complaining about this in any thread is off-topic.

GeniusIsDisruptive has been banned. Was too little genius and way too much disruptive.

Yesterday's SMBC was (in a broad sense) on that topic http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dear-god-2

GeniusIsDisruptive has been suspended a week for abusive behavior and repeated soapboxing (refusal to engage in discussion)

Nope. Plenty of physics works, i.e. is true, without my participation, and many of these things are decidedly not real.

Not really helpful, IMO, considering that we've had several posts asking how you know what you've observed is actual reality. Either situation "concerns" reality, but the definition avoids addressing the problem.

So the spin of an electron measured along a particular axis (the z-axis) is real. What is the spin measured along the x or y axis, since it is not real?