XVV has been suspended for 3 days for abusive language. If you aren't happy here, inflict yourself elsewhere. If you stay, be civil.

bryozoa has earned a short suspension for some posts that are rather astounding in their level of denial and appeal to conspiracy 

Moreno has been banned for the rather insistent tendency towards racist rhetoric. 

rode_of_the_ruin has been banned as a sock-puppet of Trần Thành (and others).

bryozoa has been banned for racist commentary

San Liu and HelloKitty Girl have been banned as sockpuppets of mcmiller 

essereio has been permanently banned for repeated violations of rule 2.1. 

dana_turner is being banned for wasting all of their first five posts on misinformation, rule-breaking, and blatantly incorrect assertions. We're going to take a page out of table tennis rules and call that a "skunk".

Ken123456 has been banned for abusive behaviour and continued soapboxing.

IDoNotCare has been suspended for multiple rules violations, including abusive posts and soapboxing

alfa05 has been banned due to continuous spamming and failure to engage with the community after several warnings.

motlan suspended for spamming us with variations on rigor-free time reversal ideas

Drakes has been banned as a sockpuppet of Delberty

relindwto6 has been banned as a spammer. (We have had a number of spammers recently who ask a sensible questions, get some answers and then post an answer themselves, with spam links. In this case, I thought the answers might be useful to others.)

drumbo has been suspended for 2 weeks for trolling and abuse of the reputation system.

fredreload has been suspended for two weeks for soapboxing about speculative topics. If you can't support your ideas, you aren't doing science.

Frogger has been suspended for two weeks for repeatedly posting nonsensical posts.

IDoNotCare has been suspended for two weeks for hijacking threads with nonsensical posts and then arguing about it. 

And if they choose not to come back? I do not care

Maestro99 has been banned for a foul-mouthed rant which he chose in lieu of reasoning us through his anti-evolution stance. Apparently, Jesus doesn't love us AT ALL! 

Brahms has been decomposed as a sockpuppet of Drakes and Delberty

WSEN has been banned for inappropriate posts

On 7/25/2020 at 8:20 PM, swansont said:

IDoNotCare has been suspended for multiple rules violations, including abusive posts and soapboxing

Exciting update! IDoNotCare had now been permanently banned for similar offences. 

logic001 has been banned as a sockpuppet of Trần Thành and Energizer 

 

edit: also the craftily-named logic002

edit2: and logic003

drumbo has been suspended for soapboxing and violating our civility rules

We're upgrading the suspension on drumbo to a full ban due to repeated bad faith arguments. If you're trying only to prove a point, write a blog or submit a paper. Discussion is for those open to learning.