Sweezo wrote:TheUrbanZealot wrote:I must say, I am still a little rattled at what the guy did to get waived. You can seriously get waived for PERCEIVED passive aggressive behavior? My God, what has happened to this board?
Congrats on reading none of the posts in this thread.
Uh I read every single post in this thread, hence my response. All i gathered was a guy who is probably using this as a means of seeking attention, albeit not saying anything malicious at all. The one constant I gathered is that the responses to his post were more vicious than his very posts, yet none of those people get disciplined. I just find there to be a strange polarization with this thread. I mean, even if the guy was "baiting people" doesn't everyone have the option of ignoring him? He did not say anything which violates the T&C of this board.
I think what happened is we have a sensitive board in was perceiving a guy to use passive/aggressive behavior to bait them into a touchy response. It always seemed to me that the best way to thwart the antics of an attention seeker is to , well, not give that attention seeker any attention...
Otherwise, there really is no need to just ban people from posting. I mean damn, you can't just tell someone "you are LarBrd33" and then ban them, without zero concrete evidence (e.g. IP address) or someting alluding to that fact. Even then, i didn't think that guy was malicious either.
I know our board is fairly classy in comparison to some others, but let's not forget the freedom in speech that is represented in forums as such. Short of violating the T&C, which he/she was not, there was no reason to ban him, he/she simply should have been ignored,