"like"

So then tell us what happened. If Emoney did something that deserved banning and you tell us what it is this will all go away (It's probably all going to go away next time Adam logs in anyways[don't worry we probably still have a few days]).

I dispute any notion of trolling, and consider your accustions of the same scurrilous and unfounded. I antagonize, but it's almost always within the context of an actual opinion (or in response to some sort of ignorance). Something that people need to consider is that just because someone's opinions or posts make you personally angry or upset does not necessarily make them trolls.

nothing you ever said made me angry. so i'm not speaking from that position. you intentionally try to get a rise out of people and that's trolling to me. but i don't have a problem with you at all.

God i remember when I first joined he was like my favorite poster on these boards. That guy made me laugh.

Never found out why he got banned, but it was a sad day.

Juggs, not sure how you left our favorite poster out of your comment, but since you did..

What about Sproat? The guy picks fights with posters, cyber stalks them, and even threatens some with physical harm. He has genuinely ban-able behavior but he's allowed free reign because he starts so many super-sweet threads!!

Emoney just makes fun of things in text and photos, Sproat tries to physically intimidate inforoosters to the point of genuine fear, but thanks for that Wooks vs. Brahs thread!

I just took like 5 minutes and re-read the old Sproat v. Flanzo debate from last year and it's just as tremendous now as it was then.

all i can gather from this is that sometimes we need antagonists and 'trolls' just to keep this place interesting and amusing. Sure they can be jerkstores but they are a means of entertainment whether we admit it or not. If we all acted civil and kind all the time this board would be really boring.

Most of us are pretty bummed out that Emoney is gone, but I don't think its right of us to take out our frustration on the mods. As Gibran and Aquarium both said, they're just doing their jobs and responding to a slew of complaints. Something specific must have happened to condone an indefinite banning, at least something more than just the usual antagonizing and arguing, no matter what person or group of people it was with. We probably won't know and it's really not our business to know.

As juggs said there is a big difference between being an antagonist that just argues within the context of a bold opinion, (juggs, flanzo, emoney, and LOADS of others) and an outright prick who posts insulting racist and homophobic slurs like that guy with the wook avatar (can't remember if it was wookiemonster or icantenough or both). But I do put my faith in the mods that when they ban a longtime poster like emoney or neighborhood creep, that there was indeed something serious behind-the-scenes going on, at least more-so than just occasional antagonistic behavior.

So yeah it's obviously not the mods who are to blame, they are just exercising discretion like anyone with any sense of authority does. If anyone is to blame its the anonymous people who complain over harmless jeering and get butthurt over some internet jest. In my opinion the only things that should constitute a ban is prejudice in the form of racism, sexism, and homophobia, and outright threats. And I guess pornography as well.

So yeah point is that Emoney was as flanzo said "someone that makes fun of things" while icantenough and wookiemonster were ignorant, backwards racists. I feel like 'pushing buttons' isn't banworthy and if you really take offense to something like that to the point where you are requesting a ban on someone, well then you're just a panda really. This isn't Bonnaroo, this is Inforoo, a message board first and foremost no matter what it's for. If you can't take passive aggressive jests, you probably shouldn't be posting. Just my opinion.

FREE EMONEY

Lol @ me posting about Skrillex in every thread for weeks/months. You are delusional bro.

Of course I did. But 90% of the time I was engaging in an already ongoing conversation, and then after people realized I was a fan of Skrillex, they engaged me. Go back and read the thread.

Some of you people are really blowing shiz out of proportion.

Brah

Apparently, in the U.K. they say "bruv." That's so much cooler, that's what I'm using now, bruv.

And emoney did, what, exactly? Engaging in an already ongoing conversation, no? How is this different than what you did?



I was admittedly exaggerating. But you yourself have admitted that annoying other posters is in fact "success" to you. What you did to the No Skrillex thread is no different than what emoney did to the "say nice things about Skrillex without posting any photos of him" thread that you started.



Okay, picture what your reaction would be if Jess was banned. I doubt you would be silent on the issue, am I correct in believing this? That's why people are "blowing it out of proportion." Because they feel it's unjust, just as you'd feel it was unjust if Jess got banned.

Ironic title for this thread considering the turn it took.

I just want to say that I hope emoney gets to come back. There are a lot of posts that make me cringe (not just emoney's) but that's free speech. I don't remember reading him posting about a fire in a crowded theater. I can see banning people that only want to pick fights but that's not what he was doing from my perspective. I have to admit I do find some of the snarky exchanges (again not just emoney's) pretty entertaining and most of them don't escalate to much.