Perma bans

[normanvin]

#trolllivesmatter

Even the mod ones

[unclejumbo]

I was once banned for a week for posting off topic. First offense no previous infractions. It seems that posting off topic has become a sport here. Mods included.

Jaybell was big on bringing threads back on topic.

Everyone has their thing. I think the current crop of mods is pretty comfortable with thread drift. It happens when people are interacting just like a conversation. Once in a while, it's not appropriate but most of the topics discussed aren't of great importance.

[streaker69]

I was once banned for a week for posting off topic. First offense no previous infractions. It seems that posting off topic has become a sport here. Mods included.

Jaybell was big on bringing threads back on topic.

If that's the kind of moderation you want, you quickly find more people with perma-bans.

[Rosco the Iroc]

Yea

I couldn't bitch too much about my infracts, one time things got pissy, I time myself out. If you get perma boot on here, yea you earned it. Past that it should between the admin/mods to possibly vet the offender to return, seeing posts on other forums or such, but never a auto return. 100% of the boards I've been on once your gone, your gone.

[GunLawyer001]

Everyone has their thing. I think the current crop of mods is pretty comfortable with thread drift. It happens when people are interacting just like a conversation. Once in a while, it's not appropriate but most of the topics discussed aren't of great importance.

Agreed. Unless the thread is about the death of a close family member or friend, or an important legal topic that could help keep folks out of trouble, then I mostly don't even notice if a thread about Gummy Bears drifts into a discussion of air bags or Trump. The more valuable the thread, the more I'm likely to notice someone hijacking it.

As for perma-bans, we have 325,000,000 people in this country, I figure that we representatives of the one who threw the party can afford to exclude the guests who keep pissing on the carpet. If you want to see really bad moderating, check out that popular AR-15-specific forum that has elevated lemming-like group-think to an art form. They banned Jay Bell before he was even allowed to sign up, and Jay was a treasure trove of information and common sense; so, to paraphrase Groucho, I wouldn't want to belong to any club that wouldn't have Jay as a member.

Unlike that forum, nobody gets banned here for simply stating a contrary opinion in a civil manner. They may catch a lot of flak from the PAFOA members, but as long as they're civil, they don't get infracted or banned. The problem children may, however, have a self-serving view of what counts as "civil" behavior. Most of the worst problem children refuse to accept that their behavior was wrong, and they take an awful lot personally (for example, I bet at least a dozen members here think that I'm talking specifically about them alone. I'm not. It's really, really common misbehavior, and very common personality defects, which is why every site needs moderators, lest they turn into the GOP debates while the moderators are out of the room.)

[Justin///M]

I thought this topic was against the new poofa commandments?

http://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=298578&page=9

[bogey1]

I thought this topic was against the new poofa commandments?

http://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=298578&page=9

Against commandments, not forum rules. Now say five our wakefields and ten hail magazines (not clips) and donate your next paycheck to poofa

[Justin///M]

Hey I'm just trying to lead the flock back to the path.

[streaker69]

Hey I'm just trying to lead the flock back to the path.

Thanks Gaius.

[Gunsnwater]

Dear God just don't ever let Notalk back.