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SuperPolymath again suspended, for not kicking the hijacking habit, with a dash of soapboxing thrown in.

Dalo has been banned for refusing to get off of his soapbox and engage with people in a meaningful way.

Vmedvil has been suspended a week for thread hijacking and wholly inappropriate responses to feedback

generalrelativity has been banned as a sockpuppet of reerer and ivylove

Not really. Was already in use at that time (1986) https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content="anecdotal+evidence"&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2C" anecdotal evidence "%3B%2Cc0

SuperPolymath has been suspended a week for repeated hijacking.

waitforufo has been suspended a week for his pattern of posting innuendo and soapboxing to incite emotional response, rather than engaging in fact-based discussion.

Upon further review, it has been determined that reerer is a sockpuppet of ivylove (or vice-versa) and the suspension has been extended to a permanent ban, at no additional charge.

If you were in orbit around the sun (and away from the earth), and strapped a scale to your feet it would read zero. It has no direct effect on the weight here on earth. (There's a differential effect stemming from your location which are the tides.)

We're in free fall with respect to the sun, as we are in orbit.

PandaBear has been banned as asockpuppet of B. John Jones

PolishBoy has been banned as a sockpuppet of the Maciej Marosz pantheon

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.