The Geckomancer has been banned. We were just going to suspend for his "I'm never wrong" style of soapboxing, but then he went foul and started abusing the PM system.

 

We hope he finds whatever he might be looking for, and people that understand the way he explains it.

conway has requested a ban, and we've responded with a year's suspension, to give him time to let his ideas mature. Kudos at least for recognizing a problem, conway. Best of luck.

Atlas Hyperion has been banned as a sockpuppet of SigmaR.I.F.T_CKF (and of VehGalTal)

Eldad Eshel has been suspended for 7 days for multiple instances of thread hijacking.

redkiss has been banned as a sockpuppet of rusek and various other incarnations of Maciej Marosz (some of which were spam-banned and thus erased)

miketempleton has been banned as a sockpuppet of mpc755

 

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as has blueskynile

 

Note: all the following have also been banned as other sockpuppets in the past. We hope he/she loses interest in spamming us with crackpottery soon

 

mpc7555

mpc866

gravitational-aether

incompressible.fluid

milkywayhalo

deformationcontinuousmedia

s_luke52

leia

incompressible-fluid

delayed-choice

max_planck

liquidspacetimes

smithjohn52

johncave

Robbitybob1's ability to create content has been removed for 2 days, so that he may contemplate how to stay on-topic and refrain from hijacking threads.

 

Edit: this has been upgraded to a full suspension

RobbityBob1 has been suspended for 30 days for continuing to hijack, post off-topic, failing to take any note of other members' arguments, and refusing to change his posting style when asked repeatedly

shmengie has been suspended 7 days for repeated thread hijacking

davidelkins has been banned after a very long time in the MQ and a lot of unapproved, nonsensical posts.

overtone has been banned. Since racism has been added to previous transgressions (hijacking, abusive behavior, soapboxing, failure to take directions from mods when asked for evidence), we decided that's enough.

sunshaker has been suspended for 7 days following a report threatening SFN and for the combined violations of our rules against preaching, etc.

The Angry Intellect has been banned following a number of abusive posts and PM's.

taxonomy26 has been suspended for one week following an abusive outburst.

Prophet12A has been banned as a sockpuppet of Prophet12.

Mikemikev has been banned for his insults, his refusal to follow moderator direction, soapboxing and persistent use of fallacies in his arguments.

bart2 has been banned as a soockpuppet of Bart.

xxsolarxx has been suspended for one week for rude and abusive behaviour on the boards and in Private Messages

Velocity_Boy is suspended a week for repeated thread hijacking and abusive behaviour.

B. John Jones is suspended a week for a rule 1 violation on top of repeated thread hijacking and soapboxing (an apparent inability to post without bringing religion into it)

B. John Jones has shown no desire to learn science in his discussion of it, so together with his willful disregard of the rules he agreed to when joining, we're going to upgrade his suspension to a full ban. We wish him, well....

FishTrembleAtMyName has been banned as a sockpuppet of UltimateInfinity

Ihcisphysicist has been suspended for 3 days for repeatedly insisting on promoting a book, which violates our "no advertising" rule. The rule will still be in place Wednesday....

hypervalent_iodineisstupid has been banned for abusive behaviour.

SimonFunnell has been suspended until staff can confer on whether or not to make it permanent. If you come to a science discussion site, bring some science, and leave any intellectual dishonesty at the door. If you claim to have the math but refuse to show it, you don't have the math.