Ahmed Torah has been banned permanently for posting a lot of preachy nonsense.

ravell has been suspended for a week for continuing to post the same links to unsupported material, which is soapboxing.  

The Operator has been banned for violations of our rule against slurs, and even more posts that hinted at such tendencies. We are just not interested in entertaining those conversations. 

 

nymnpseudo has been banned as a sockpuppet of coffeesippin

FreedomRider has been banned as a sockpuppet of Achilles (and eggman2)

Plastic Shoes has been banned as a sockpuppet account (probably The Operator and Taxonomist, and perhaps more, but definitely someone who has been here before)

RenaissanceChemist has been banned as a result of being a likely sockpuppet and a definite pest. 

niwrad has been banned as a sock puppet of forex

ag400002 has been suspended for a week for serial hijacking, and for posting speculative notions in mainstream sections after being warned repeatedly.

DavidWebb has been banned as a sockpuppet of Jason Bourne InSe, Bean_Spiller and Pock Suppet

Vexen has been suspended for a combination of soapboxing and spamming. Far too many threads opened up with no further participation (and when participation is there, it is often of the category "tell me more"), and includes threads that are topics easily Googled.

This is a discussion forum. 

 

franco malgarini has been banned for not obeying our advertising rules, and for not listening when warned that he was breaking our advertising rules.

MeredithLesly has been banned as a sockpuppet of BlueSpike, Frank_Baker and LisaLiel. The original account, BlueSpike, has been banned as well, because enough is enough.

ntdsc has been banned as a sockpuppet of t686

On 2/22/2019 at 3:32 AM, swansont said:

Plastic Shoes has been banned as a sockpuppet account (probably The Operator and Taxonomist, and perhaps more, but definitely someone who has been here before)

Samatha Priss has been banned as yet another sock puppet of the above.

Jojowasaman, Hilary, Intothedarkagain, and Jojo_anderson have all been banned as sock puppets of one another, as well as being spammers.

Z10 has been banned after spending some time in the moderation queue, with no improvement in post quality.

internetcynic has been banned for rejecting our rules about discussing conspiracy. Evidence is the key for all scientific discussions, folks.

2Pillars has been suspended 3 days for preaching

Q-reeuss has been permanently banned for spamming the forum with nonsense. 

Frank Sidebottom has been banned as a sockpuppet of Samantha Priss, The Operator and Taxonomist, et al.

choklatewolfy and CausalCode are banned as sockpuppets of ProgrammingGodJordan, and his subroutines.

JessPetersenjessie14, EthanKahn500, EK98 and Kimminsoo have been banned as sockpuppets of EthanKahn. These were apparently opened to get around the 5-post first-day limit rather than a ban, so the original account will remain active at this time.

Edit: also BBear  and with that, the original account is banned 

Pengkuan has been suspended for advertising and soapboxing 

et pet has been suspended for thread hijacking and other repeated off-topic discussion

hipster doofus suspended for 3 days for repeatedly spamming the forum with their pet idea