Didymus has been suspended for a week for thread hijacking.

Rajnish Kaushik has been suspended for 2 years in the hopes that some time away to learn and mature will allow for him to become an engaging and less disruptive member of the SFN community. We wish you all the best with your life and studies during this time, Rajnish.

kristalris has been suspended for 30 days for a culmination of instances of thread hijacking and more recently, violating the rules prohibiting slurs and prejudice.

oslostudent44 has been banned as a sock puppet of Vinko Rajic.

Colic has been banned as a sockpuppet of SamBridge.

RK the Boss has been banned as a sockpuppet of Rajnish Kaushik

Iwonderaboutthings has been suspended for 2 weeks for being a serial pest.

She has been suspended for a week for acting like an abusive troll.

Jay Sharma has been banned as a sockpuppet of Rajnish Kaushik

Jaydeep as well (posts removed)

Maddy Sharma as well.

Schneibster has been suspended for a week for his insulting remarks towards other members.

sheever has been banned upon his own request.

alphimega and mensamemberandproud have been banned as sockpuppets of Iwikefactz

Peter BE cimp has been banned for being a troll.

Greatest I Am has been banned for abusive behavior, after assuring us he wouldn't do that anymore if we let him post in the Religion section again. Sincere he was not.

overtone has been suspended for a week for repeatedly berating other discussion participants and for continually refusing to support arguments with any external literature.

vampares has been suspended a week for some abusive comments, re-opening the discussion of a closed thread and a slew of off-topic or otherwise meaningless posts clogging up discussion

Dekan has been suspended for 2 weeks. Apparently his cool male strategic reasoning didn't help him to remember that we have rules prohibiting sexist (and incorrect) remarks such as his.

yahya515

 

Has been suspended for 7 days due to repeated, numerous and various rule breaches including hijacking, preaching, abusing the PM system, and proselytizing.

Schneibster has been banned for being apparently unable to proceed in a civil fashion when involved in a disagreement.

cells has been suspended for repeatedly advertising a paper. (Also, reckless and escalating use of exclamation points. One per sentence, at most, please)

stemcellbuff and montrellblundell banned for sockpuppetry and spamming to advertise their journal papers. While we wholeheartedly welcome science discussion, spamming links to your papers does not foster such conversation.

Staff have decided that Vampare's mixture of trolling, nonsense, personal attacks and hijacking was just not acceptable; having already been suspended for these actions it was decided to ban permanently .

vampares` has been banned as a sockpuppet of vampares. I don't know how we figured it out, but we did.

John Duffield has been banned as a sock puppet of Farsight / Farsight2. Hopefully that answers his question.