traveler has been banned for persistent rules violations. Trolling, thread hijacking and circumventing a locked thread by bringing up the material in the hijacked thread.

big314mp has been banned for a month, at own request, to focus on other tasks.

Tom Vose has been banned, as a sockpuppet of a previously banned user. (Graviphoton)

MolecularEnergy has been banned as a sockpuppet of Tom Vose.

frankcox has been auto-suspended for 3 days for amassing too many infraction points. Thread hijacking, trolling and persistent strawmanning that are the hallmark of that sort of creationist arguments.

frankcox has been permanently banned for creationist trolling.

I-AM-A-GENIUS has been has been auto-suspended for 3 days for amassing too many infraction points. All for trolling.

PlayStationX has been permanently banned for persistent trolling and ignoring explanations while continually asking for them.

Rutru7334 banned for spamming

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space1 is suspended due to accumulating 3 warnings about trolling.

Norman Albers is on a two week vacation due to persistently insulting members and staff.

Sione has been autosuspended for has rapid collection of infractions, including trolling, thread hijacking and ad hominem attacks.

chitrangda (formerly book worm) has been banned for three days by request to prevent SFN from distracting from school work.

Peron has been auto-suspended for a combination of plagiarism and trolling infractions.

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tsolkas has been suspended for 1 year for repeatedly posting extraordinary claims and then not responding when asked to back them up. This type of drive-by trolling is not conducive to healthy discussion, which is really what we're all about.

Sione has been suspended for a week for continued rules violations; circumventing a closed thread by posting a response in a new thread (trolling and hijacking)

Inquisitor has been perm banned for mass trolling incl racism.

the tree has been banished for 30 days by request of the user taken a 30-day sabbatical

Edited April 23, 200916 yr by swansont

scrappy has been suspended for thread-hijacking, trolling, and flaming.

insane_alien has taken a one-week sabbatical

universe2009 has been banned for massive amounts of PM spam

Gateway has been banned for inane threads that were annoying the membership (for lack of a better description).

Norman Albers has been suspended for a week for spamming the forums after receiving a 4-point infraction for spam.

north has accumulated enough infraction points for an automatic three-day suspension. Trolling, including but not limited to simple repetition of arguments and refusal to address points brought up, as well as strawman arguments.

geistkie has been banned for being a not-so-subtle reincarnation of the previously-banned geistkiesel, and for exhibiting the same traits that got him banned in the first place. Repeatedly posting the same errors, at length, after being shown why they were errors (i.e. trolling/refusal to acknowledge cited information).

ORIFIEL was automatically suspended for 3 days after excessively trolling the forum, ignoring the rules and posting multiple threads on the same subject.

Scrappy temporarily suspended for infractions resulting from persistent logical fallacies, etc.