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strangerthanu has been banned as a sockpuppet of JohnLesser (and curiouscat)

seriously disabled has been suspended a year for continued disruption through thread hijacking. We are hoping the time can be spent getting help and sorting out personal issues. Disruptive posting to get attention is not the right path for that.

! Moderator Note This thread is not an invitation to advertise your own site (see rule 2.7), or some "alternative" viewpoint

YuanShenhau is suspended 3 days for repeatedly opening new threads on the same topic, after being told not to.

Since he learned nothing from his brief suspension and continues to hijack and post abusive comments, Furyan5 is suspended for a month

Furyan5 has been suspended for abusive posts and thread hijacking.

Thomasmariel has been banned as a sockpuppet of marieltrokan

Thomasmariel has been added

Vmedvil has declared that s/he "will not be back EVER!" so we have decided to close and lock the door, just to be sure.

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.