Michael Lee has been banned for some particularly abusive PM's and posts.

Mondays Assignment: Die has been banned due solely to his/her own explicit and unilateral request. We don't understand either...

ZimBu has been banned as a not very cleverly disguised sock puppet of illuusio

Prophet12 has had posting privileges suspended for 3 days due to persistent hijacking of threads despite warnings.

David Levy has had his posting privileges suspended 4 days for multiple instances of thread hijacking.

PureGenius is suspended from posting for 4 days for personal attacks right after being warned about personal attacks.

 

 

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VictorEliasEspinozaGuedez banned as a sockpuppet of VictorEliasEspinoza and clones.

Prophet12 is permanently banned for thread hijacking (again).

krash661 has been suspended because full account privileges only come to those who accept the rules.

DarrylForests and his original account, darryl88, have been banned as per request because, 'forums do not represent reality.' The humor of that statement was perhaps lost on Darryl.

Windevoid is suspended 4 days for hijacking, not complying with the rule to support speculations with evidence and for either trolling or being utterly clueless about scientific inquiry, with no effort to learn.

Sativa Scientist has been banned and content removed due to numerous sexist, homophobic, and generally offensive remarks.

Iggy has been suspended for a week for making vulgar, abusive comments.

zorro has been banned as per request and also for continued soap boxing.

newts has been permanently banned because there's only so much insolence we can handle.

ACG52 was suspended for 7 days as of yesterday for more abusive behavior.

 

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Leif was also banned following an abusive meltdown.

krash661 has been banned for continuing to be a jackass after being warned and suspended for same.

Because of repeated thread hijacking/advertising of a pet theory, roger4464 will not be participating for a week.

Windevoid has been banned for consistently ignoring efforts by the membership to cure his complaints about basic science with knowledge and understanding. We wish him luck (elsewhere!) with this methodology.

theanonymouse has been banned as a sockpuppet of the user endercreeper01

PureGenius has been suspended for a week for soapboxing (ignoring discussion rules and just repeating a stance without support). We appreciate his civility in the face of numerous detractors, and would encourage him, on his return, to begin actually listening to all the expert resources that have shown willingness to help him.

AriePiron was banned due to use of plagiarised copy n paste posts

PureGenius has been banned for much the same reasons he was suspended. Soapboxing and hijacking, and a stated intent not to follow the rules about soapboxing. (Also a count of plagiarism/copyright violation for good measure.)

For incessant trolling, abuse and soapboxing, Kiss_My_Hand has been suspended 3 days, with an option to extend this indefinitely (once more moderators have weighed in on the unfortunate situation)

 

update: the option has been exercised.

TrappedLight has been banned as a sock puppet of the loveable scamp, Aethelwulf.

s1eep has been given a week to rethink his interpretation of rule 1c.