Poll: Let us remember The Banned...

[Solo-Wing]

Fucking hell so many old names. I am going through some sad nostalgia.

So many sent to the basement. So many.

Also I have not seen the Escapist greeting in AGES. "Welcome to the Escapist. Stay out of the Basement."

Where has that gone?

Do you spend so much time in the Forum Games that you didn't lurk out to notice this thread? [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.395758-Whats-the-community-like-here?page=1] It spawned the recent thread about the Escapist's Basement. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.395819-The-Escapist-Basement]

Much of my BEST work was done in the Basement Thread. Read it to the last page--it was a BLAST!

I already knew what the basement was. Hell http://www.Warcry.com has become the basement I believe.

#OccupytheBasement go to Warcry.com!

I was just pointing out that I rarely see the greeting anymore.

 

[Sacman]

Well it wasn't exactly good porn... unless you like monster girls..

well you don;t have to be les nice... just more direct... make sure you make it clear you don't want to get roped into something like that I suppose... besides everyone likes you being all suave and sexeh...

Monsters girls? How odd. <.<

I should do a poll! If people like me being suave and sexeh. The alternative is being TDR. Tall, dark and handsome. It also means alot of weird ass brooding about pancakes and waffles.

Well if you do go that way, just know... I prefer waffles over pancakes... unless the pancakes have nutella on them...<.<

 

[mParadox]

Well if you do go that way, just know... I prefer waffles over pancakes... unless the pancakes have nutella on them...<.<

YOU TOO?! *sniffs* Pancakes are never appreciated. T^T

[sub]Maple syrup is better than Nutella.[/sub]

OT: There was another. I can't remember his name alas. But... he kind of wrote his own obituary. It was like the most beautiful thing I had ever read on the forums. *sniffs* You'll be missed, really talented banned writer guy.

 

[Crazy Zaul]

Sean Hollyman and Mathew94 got banned?
I knew a few people that were 1 bar away but not them.

 

[Godhead]

I do remember MaxTheReaper. Wasn't he banned because somebody thought that he was a she and then it turned out that lots of people thought that he was a she and he went apeshit?

 

[Godhead]

hey anyone remember lilithslave? I know she wanst banned but her "dramatic exit"
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.376797-Please-help-me-find-another-forum-online-community?page=1

was worthy of a true prima-donna!

She left because people got pissy when she berated people for either not knowing about her "favorite game" or that they didn't like it right? Man I'm glad she's gone. I did like that one guy that posted Duke Nukem in her threads.

 

[Caffeine_Bombed]

Usually I'd think "Oh well, it's their own fault" but I myself have recieved a Mod warning before. Granted I was being kind of an ass on that occasion, but 99% of the time I really do just want to banter with no malicious intentions.
I guess my point is...we all have bad days. Some of us just can't hold it in. So, yeah, I'll remember them!

(P.S: That's not to say some people aren't just jerks!)

 

[AgDr_ODST]

I've been around though not consistently posting for awhile and many of the names being brought up are unfamiliar to me some people like MaxtheReaper[footnote]actually I think he was the only one[/footnote] I do remember seeing back in the day before the banhammer struck them...others like Furburt and Hubilub sound familiar but I can't say for sure if I ever remembered their posts or even posted in their threads. I do wonder though if I ever get banned who if anyone will remember me even if only for a second in a thread like this one that will inevitably pop up in about another year or so

 

[kuolonen]

Ever so often going through old Zero punctuation comment sections is like visiting a graveyard. So many banned...

And when you look at the stuff that got them banned I cant help but wonder how I haven't received so much as a warning even though some of my post have skirted on the edge of it. Maybe my avatar scares the mods away.

It would be ironic if someone posting on this thread would get banned.

 

[Sangreal Gothcraft]

..Um sadly i'm rather new here and i don't know who most of you are! WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE! But yes let us give a moment of Silence to the banned...but not one moment more, for they are to be forgotten.

 

[DeathChairOfHell]

I remember @Wolverine18 getting banned for having multiple accounts and abusing the Health Bar Rules. The funny thing about that was that @Wolverine18 --who I first encountered in R&P--ended up banned because he forgot which of his accounts he was using and responded to The Iron Ruler using a different account in a direct manner: "Like I said earlier".

That's...well. The word 'pratfall' comes to mind. But I remember that he had some interesting things to say.

Edit: What about Katatori-kun? I remember he posted a thread about leaving the Escaptist. Has anyone heard about him?

God, goddammit. I quoted the wrong person. That's a shame. I apologize.

 

[DeathChairOfHell]

Ehh, I remember a couple or three, for various reasons.

I remember Necroswanson who seemed like a normal internet guy, but he made an angry post too many. I remember NoMoreSanity, who was a decent guy when I spoke to him but probably deserved his banning. I remember MaxtheReaper, forum celebrity of a couple years back. I remember Furburt, now running his own forum with Hubilub. I remember Indigo_Dingo, mostly because of his 10000 post review of the Escapist. I remember Darth Mobius and Darth Empyrean, a forum couple. I remember Zeeky Santos and Fish Food Carl and Lord Cuthberton and RAKtheUndead and Richard Groovy Pants and Sean Hollyman and Swollen Goat and WanderFreak and Mathew94 and Avykins and IdealistCommi (who became Rocket Dog) and Demented Teddy and Pararaptor. I remember Mortai Gravesend.

I mean, you stick around for a while, you tend to remember the people who make a name for themselves by getting themselves banned, as well as those who simply gravitate away.

I don't remember why they were banned and I don't glorify them either - many were banned for good reasons. I simply remember they existed.

Furburt and Hubilub, holy shit that was a while ago, I remember them being like the top-tier guys. Those were the days...

 

[DalekJaas]

The mods on the escapist don't enforce the actual rules, they enforce their own opinions and people seem to get banned for abstract, often completely random things. I have been here since late 2008 and I don't think I have ever clicked on a post someone was perma-banned for and thought a full ban was justified. I know that it may be a case of warnings piling up or last chance, but most of the time even the warnings are for ridiculous things. And a lot of the mods don't seem to understand that actual difference between 'advertising' and posting an interesting link from another site.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

The mods on the escapist don't enforce the actual rules, they enforce their own opinions and people seem to get banned for abstract, often completely random things. I have been here since late 2008 and I don't think I have ever clicked on a post someone was perma-banned for and thought a full ban was justified. I know that it may be a case of warnings piling up or last chance, but most of the time even the warnings are for ridiculous things. And a lot of the mods don't seem to understand that actual difference between 'advertising' and posting an interesting link from another site.

Posting a link as a source is fine. Posting a link and going "hey guys, check this out!" is advertising. Your posts and threads should be based on your thoughts and information. If you only share a link, we're gonna give you a warning for low-content and/or advertising.

 

[Basement Cat]

Ever so often going through old Zero punctuation comment sections is like visiting a graveyard. So many banned...

I know what you mean about the graveyards. I just realized yesterday that Stolen Pixels was done by Shamus Young--whose work on Dm of the Ring and Darths and Droids I already loved.

Going over the replies to his old strips not only shows lots of folks who were banned but LOTS of folks who haven't posted since `09 or 10.

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God, goddammit. I quoted the wrong person. That's a shame. I apologize.

Z'allrite!!!

..Um sadly i'm rather new here and i don't know who most of you are! WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE! But yes let us give a moment of Silence to the banned...but not one moment more, for they are to be forgotten.

Who are we? We are the living! We are the future dead! We are walking worm food, if you will.

Pardon the melodrama!

Actually I'm the OP. I just PM'd the Mod Forum Group and told them that I'd been getting updates from this thread (YOU GUYS--who, of course, rock) but that the thread was continuing to sink through the pages.

They told me that they're deliberately sinking it. The "topical reasons" was the given explanation.

*sighs*

On the PLUS side I can now reply to others, including many I wanted to on previous pages without worrying about being accused of "bumping" my own thread up!

Silver lining and all that.

 

[DigitalSushi]

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If you don't mind me asking, what happened with Hubilub and all them? I joined when they were still active, and then suddenly they were gone

They created a forum which they believed would have the opposite moderation to The Escapist, as in we were nazi's and didn't let them have their own views and opinions.

First thing that happened is they permabanned people for speaking out against them on their forum, funny that within the first day they became the thing they claimed to hate the most, oppressive admins.

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See, this is why [user]Sevre[/user] and [user]DigitalSushi[/user] used to have a joke about me having a massive archive on the history of the forums.

that is no joke dude, if it exist you've read it.

If its well written, NewClassic wrote it, and then you read it.

 

[Sangreal Gothcraft]

snip

If you don't mind me asking, what happened with Hubilub and all them? I joined when they were still active, and then suddenly they were gone

They created a forum which they believed would have the opposite moderation to The Escapist, as in we were nazi's and didn't let them have their own views and opinions.

First thing that happened is they permabanned people for speaking out against them on their forum, funny that within the first day they became the thing they claimed to hate the most, oppressive admins.

[hr]

See, this is why [user]Sevre[/user] and [user]DigitalSushi[/user] used to have a joke about me having a massive archive on the history of the forums.

Hehe OP is a bit Melodramatic but cool!

that is no joke dude, if it exist you've read it.

If its well written, NewClassic wrote it, and then you read it.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

that is no joke dude, if it exist you've read it.

If its well written, NewClassic wrote it, and then you read it.

True [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.111856-NewClassics-Writing-Theory] dat [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.163355-Escapist-Community-Year-In-Review-2009#4223470]. I could take it even further back if you wanted. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.240-We-fear-change-post-your-thoughts-bug-reports-praise-here#1904]

Man, it's been a while since I did a link search like that.

 

[DigitalSushi]

that is no joke dude, if it exist you've read it.

If its well written, NewClassic wrote it, and then you read it.

True [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.111856-NewClassics-Writing-Theory] dat [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.163355-Escapist-Community-Year-In-Review-2009#4223470]. I could take it even further back if you wanted. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.240-We-fear-change-post-your-thoughts-bug-reports-praise-here#1904]

Man, it's been a while since I did a link search like that.

That is what I love about you man, you bring the best of the past out, not like those awful necromancers that bring shit threads up... you bring up the best of shit gone by.

 

[disgruntledgamer]

Cant say I miss any of them, although there were quite a few who were banned that made me scratch my head as to why. Especially those who are banned because of low content.

There is only one person who i REALLY dont miss, but even ill admit that the post that actually got him banned wasnt ban worthy. In fact compared to most of his posts it was extremely tame, almost civil.

IMO it's far too easy to get banned here. I post sporadically sometimes taking months off and than be like (oh yeah they don't allow 1 word posts or pictures without sentences to go with them even tho the picture itself is completely inline with the topic at hand.)

Most of my warning are for little dumb things like that and everyone has been a minor offense, if you can even call them an offense. I've seen people get warnings and suspensions for practically nothing to the point I wasn't even sure what they got a warning for and you're not even allowed to mention the things that blo... sto... the things that are not allowed to be mentioned, without getting a warning.