jingofever wrote:Bruce Dazzling wrote:A quick review of the last several pages of this thread demonstrates that Hugh is in violation of the following board rule:
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Since Hugh is a repeat offender, I'm exiling him for two weeks.
Most of the posters in this thread are just as guilty as he is. It takes two to rango, you know.
And where does two weeks come from? Is it completely arbitrary? eyeno, before banishment, was suspended for three days for making a bizarre and at least borderline anti-semitic post. Nordic was suspended for one week for 'insulting' Hugh Mantee Wins (but I'm not sure Nordic intended to insult). Now Hugh Manatee Wins is suspended for two weeks for, I suppose, initiating something we all participated in. I intentionally broke the 'no insults' rule when I called Hugh a crank and I have disrupted this thread almost as much as him but nothing has happened to me.
By the way, you really should have posted this in a seperate thread.
I explained my actions in the post that you (incompletely) quoted, but I'll restate it here and elaborate a bit.
1. Jeff created a rule for the specific purpose of limiting Hugh to one KWH post per thread, unless it happens to be his own. The rule states that habitual non-observance of these guidelines will be regarded as disruption.
2. Hugh broke that rule in this thread, to the extent that his disruption became the actual topic of the thread on multiple occasions, to the consternation of the OP, as well as several other board members who expressed their frustration publicly and privately.
3. Hugh is a multiple repeat offender, and has been warned/suspended multiple times.
4. I'm sorry that you consider my actions to be arbitrary, but moderating this board is more of an art than a science. We don't have a Discipline Matrix where offense a = punishment a. We use our judgement, and I can assure you that I have the board's best interests at heart.
5. I'm really not sure why you expected me to start a separate thread for my announcement that Hugh had been suspended. It seems to me that the best place for such an announcement is right in the thread where the rules in question were broken. It was a short post, and really didn't disrupt the thread at all.
With that in mind, please respond to this post via PM if you feel you have something more to say.
Carry on.