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Baninated
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Feb 19, 2008, 07:03 AM
 
Why are the rules for signatures so restrictive???

I'd also say that it would be kewl for you guys to allow avatars also. This place looks boring, we need to throw some color into the mix
     
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Feb 19, 2008, 07:08 AM
 
LOL!
In before Teh Lock!™
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Feb 19, 2008, 07:26 AM
 
<Definitive Answer> The rules about signatures are (as I point out to just about every sig rule violator) intended to keep the emphasis on the content rather than on what your favorite band, dog breed, sports team(s), zodiac sign, archaeological school, mother's quilting circle AND current song you're playing on iTunes are. There are forums where anything goes in signatures, and often there will be posts that take up a whole page for ONE POST because of the poster's enormous freaking signature. So there you are. The rules keep our focus on what you and I post, and make it so we have to be creative to get all that stuff in front of other people's faces if we want to do that.</Definitive Answer>
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Feb 19, 2008, 07:36 AM
 
wow that was a quick but disapointing answer.

could not hurt to ask though

thank you
     
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Feb 19, 2008, 07:40 AM
 
Whoa, he took the banhammer in the butt.
     
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Feb 19, 2008, 10:08 AM
 
next nick: buttbanninated LOL!

It's Rob. He's done that stuff before

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Feb 20, 2008, 08:18 AM
 
Not Rob-besson3c. We told him it wasn't funny with the first Butthawk nick, but when he decided to start another butthawk nick, he earned a short ban.
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Feb 20, 2008, 09:24 AM
 
Originally Posted by ghporter View Post
We told him it wasn't funny

You're right. It was more like absolutely friggin hilarious.
     
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Feb 20, 2008, 10:54 AM
 
Originally Posted by ghporter View Post
Not Rob-besson3c. We told him it wasn't funny with the first Butthawk nick, but when he decided to start another butthawk nick, he earned a short ban.
Butthawk was funny and a breath of fresh fart-air. BTW, I understand "butthawking" was not besson3c.
     
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Feb 20, 2008, 10:58 AM
 
I must have missed his hilariousness, everything I read was lame comments with the "LOL"
     
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Feb 20, 2008, 12:06 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth View Post
I must have missed his hilariousness, everything I read was lame comments with the "LOL"

You're not even going to give him a point for "floopy" drive?

You sir, have a cold, cold heart.
     
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Feb 20, 2008, 01:14 PM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
You're right. It was more like absolutely friggin hilarious.
+1

no really, his posts were funny and they were lighthearted and didn't hurt anyone. I understand the bans, but I still secretly hope to see him back again.
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Feb 20, 2008, 01:26 PM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
You're not even going to give him a point for "floopy" drive?

You sir, have a cold, cold heart.
The title of the thread dissuaded me from entering.

You are correct on the latter part, however.
     
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Feb 20, 2008, 02:17 PM
 
Originally Posted by SSharon View Post
+1

no really, his posts were funny and they were lighthearted and didn't hurt anyone. I understand the bans, but I still secretly hope to see him back again.
I'm sure he'll turn up somewhere.
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Feb 20, 2008, 05:56 PM
 
The funny part of Butthawk wore off pretty quickly. His original ego, besson3c, will come back at the end of his short ban, no doubt funnier than ever.
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Feb 26, 2008, 12:10 PM
 
He got banned again?
     
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Feb 26, 2008, 12:11 PM
 
Oh yeah. I called everything that happened in the thread too. Check feedback.
     
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Feb 26, 2008, 12:46 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth View Post
Oh yeah. I called everything that happened in the thread too. Check feedback.
This is Feedback.
     
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Feb 26, 2008, 12:49 PM
 
This is a specific thread in Feedback.
     
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Feb 26, 2008, 01:04 PM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
He got banned again?
Yeah, he posted that other thread here in the feedback. Seemed very Rob like I didn't think he deserved to be banned though. It was whiny but since when did a whiny thread meant you'd get banned?
     
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Feb 26, 2008, 01:21 PM
 
Originally Posted by MacosNerd View Post
It was whiny but since when did a whiny thread meant you'd get banned?
Dude, your membership here is AT-WILL.

You can get banninated for *any* and *no* reason.
I'm speaking from experience

-t