belkin is banned along with his sock puppet account, pleasehelp.

esbo has been suspended for a week for repeated rules violations, ignoring requests for evidence, and ignoring the evidence others worked hard to provide to support their arguments.

rajaksrna has been banned for continued trolling/soapboxing, after repeated warnings and a suspension.

zorro has been suspended for 7 days for thread hijacking, preaching and an inability to understand the definition of the word evidence.

The stars and some random sequence of repeating numbers have told me that Steven Hawkins is to be suspended for 1 week due to thread hijacking and personal remarks subsequent to staff warnings. Who am I to deny the teachings of astrology?!

shonghu is banned as a sock puppet of rajaksrna.

Flattered though I was with accusations of being mooeypoo's sock puppet (she wishes), our favorite almost-homophone of a famous fizzy-cyst, Steven Hawkins, has earned himself a permanent ban for continued disregard of our rules (specifically those about derailing threads, personal attacks and posting speculations in the main science forums).

Flattered though I was with accusations of being mooeypoo's sock puppet (she wishes), our favorite almost-homophone of a famous fizzy-cyst, Steven Hawkins, has earned himself a permanent ban for continued disregard of our rules (specifically those about derailing threads, personal attacks and posting speculations in the main science forums).

The real tipping point was when Steven Hawkins requested the ban himself via private message. Best idea yet, Steve.

Flattered though I was with accusations of being mooeypoo's sock puppet (she wishes)

 

Wait... if you're not my sock puppet, what the heck is my hand in?

Green Xenon is suspended for a week for repeated and persistent preaching/soapboxing

DOOM-N-GLOOM and his sock puppet, Centrifugal Force, are both banned. In future, if you're going to use multiple accounts to give someone rep points AND get away with it, maybe don't make it so obvious.

 

Edit: after some discussion, DOOM-N-GLOOM is now allowed back.

owl has been suspended for 7 days for constantly hijacking and derailing threads with nonsense he was told not to bring up again. Admittedly, this has been a long time coming.

Mosheh Thezion has been suspended for 7 days for thread hijacking and using threads to advertise his own site and threads.

Temporocitor has been banned in response to the challenge "Ban me if you like" which garnered a sufficient number of "likes". And for a series of wholly inappropriate remarks which have been deleted.

BlackJack21 is banned as yet another sock puppet of 00rich.

questionposter has been suspended three days for using a sockpuppet account to give himself reputation, and for creating the new account to mask the negative reputation accrued as the previous user. The original account (steevey) has been banned.

sammy7 has been banished to his bridge for a week for being a troll.

Athena has been suspended for continued personal attacks after several warnings to change the way they post.

Thomas Kelly guessed has been suspended for 1 week for ignoring requests for clarification, giving vague and misleading answers, and preaching.

Mohammad Shafiq Khan has been suspended for 7 days for persisting in the reopening of closed topics and generally for ignoring the many, many warnings given by staff as well as the points and questions given by other members.

Anders Hoveland has been suspended one week for repeated racist comments and plagiarism/copyright violations.

Rich_A12 is banned for repeatedly violating the rules by neither supporting nor addressing objections to his speculations (soapboxing) and for sending an inappropriately-worded, abusive PM.

Green Xenon has been banned for repeated violations of rule 1c (prejudice against groups)

Mohammad Shafiq Khan has been permanently banned from SFN for constant thread hijacking and a blatant disregard for the forum rules and staff warnings and PM's.

 

 

owl is also banned permanently for constantly reintroducing topics he was told not to after having been given numerous opportunities to discuss the matter. It's been fun.

There is more suspended a week for trolling and rudeness.