The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!
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So
is supposedly banned. I don't actually believe this to be the case. I think he's decided to pretend to be a martyr for the cause, and added a "banned" badge to his own profile. He was unusually fervent in his attacks on the other moderator, but nothing particularly ban-worthy. And 
has declared not-it. Which leaves...
, or one of his alts, has banned , the Darth Vader to his Palpatine, which seems highly improbable.Or has
acted? This also seems improbable to the point of inconsiderable.So I'm summoning
to the Thunderdome to prove he's banned or not.
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Since non-admins apparently can't see durations for temporary bans,
it's three days.
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@ben_lubar said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
Since non-admins apparently can't see durations for temporary bans,
it's three days.
So you're in on it too, huh?
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Holy shit did something actually happen?
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@anonymous234 said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
Holy shit did something actually happen?
No, man, don't believe the lies.
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@anonymous234 said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
Holy shit did something actually happen?
polygeekery got temp-banned for 3 days, apparently.
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@SlackerD said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
apparently.
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This post is deleted!
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@anonymous234 said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
Holy shit did something actually happen?
I woke up this morning.
Does that count?
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So what are the terms?
When fox was temp-banned, he had many explicit warnings of things to stop doing and was told not to repeat.
Also, how was his behavior objectively different than those he was responding to?
Sure, he may have escalated (he's an asshole
) but you can't escalate something that hasn't already started.Yeah, I am biased, I like @Polygeekery and have similar political views so I'm being lumped into the same groups.
I live in an extremely blue city, in a blue state, the Garage gives me some respite being bombarded with hostility for having a different opinion than everyone around me.
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@Gribnit said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
, or one of his altsOh shit, it could be literally anyone!
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@Karla said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
I live in an extremely blue city, in a blue state
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@Karla said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
So what are the terms?
When fox was temp-banned, he had many explicit warnings of things to stop doing and was told not to repeat.
Also, how was his behavior objectively different than those he was responding to?
Sure, he may have escalated (he's an asshole ) but you can't escalate something that hasn't already started.I'm wondering if it's self-inflicted, or if something happened we can't see now.
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@loopback0 said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
@Karla said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
So what are the terms?
When fox was temp-banned, he had many explicit warnings of things to stop doing and was told not to repeat.
Also, how was his behavior objectively different than those he was responding to?
Sure, he may have escalated (he's an asshole ) but you can't escalate something that hasn't already started.I'm wondering if it's self-inflicted, or if something happened we can't see now.
That's why I asked.
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@loopback0 said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
I'm wondering if it's self-inflicted, or if something happened we can't see now.
@Karla said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
That's why I asked.
I don't think it could have been self-inflicted. It would have to come from a mod/admin, which @Polygeekery is not.
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@brie said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
I don't think it could have been self-inflicted. It would have to come from a mod/admin, which @Polygeekery is not.
He could have asked for it
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@loopback0 I doubt that he would've. I really don't think his blood pressure suffers from posting here.
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@loopback0 National pride
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@admiral_p Eat a little Italy.
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@Zecc said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
@admiral_p Eat a little Italy.
But I don't know any Italian women...
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
@Zecc said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
@admiral_p Eat a little Italy.
But I don't know any Italian women...
Who said it had to be a woman?
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@Karla said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
So what are the terms?
When fox was temp-banned, he had many explicit warnings of things to stop doing and was told not to repeat.
Also, how was his behavior objectively different than those he was responding to?Yeah, this reeks. The rules, as far as I can tell, are "no spam". He sure hasn't broken that one, else we'd have seen significant jeffing. If a rule other than this has been employed, what is the rule? Who else has broken it? What behavior should be ceased? Could I unwittingly be banned tomorrow?
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@ben_lubar said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
it's three days.
So he gets unbanned on April 1?
Hrmm.
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@pie_flavor said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
@Karla said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
So what are the terms?
When fox was temp-banned, he had many explicit warnings of things to stop doing and was told not to repeat.
Also, how was his behavior objectively different than those he was responding to?Yeah, this reeks. The rules, as far as I can tell, are "no spam". He sure hasn't broken that one, else we'd have seen significant jeffing. If a rule other than this has been employed, what is the rule? Who else has broken it? What behavior should be ceased? Could I unwittingly be banned tomorrow?
How many warnings were given?
My understanding is that Fox
andhad many warnings before he was banned for 24 hours.What makes this worse than Fox's behavior that it has a ban 3x as long?
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@Karla Maybe they wanted him unavailable during the rest of his vacation, so that he can only post again when he might have less available time.
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@pie_flavor said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
@Karla said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
So what are the terms?
When fox was temp-banned, he had many explicit warnings of things to stop doing and was told not to repeat.
Also, how was his behavior objectively different than those he was responding to?Yeah, this reeks. The rules, as far as I can tell, are "no spam". He sure hasn't broken that one, else we'd have seen significant jeffing. If a rule other than this has been employed, what is the rule? Who else has broken it? What behavior should be ceased? Could I unwittingly be banned tomorrow?
I agree with you, in part. It's not only spam that you can get temp-banned for, I think. @Polygeekery has gone almost full-Fox with eunuch thing. However, I can't understand the reason for the ban, unless he was actually asked to stop. So unless there were posts that got deleted, or PMs we don't have access to, this should get explained.
I'm a bit sad about this recent piece of drama. This board has its problems and we could discuss the echo chamber thing, or the fact that there is a certain lack of balance in garage, but this is something that we should deal with appropriately, by talking in a more cool-headed manner. And not by yelling at each other about alt-right and libtards.
As Trump would say, SAAAAAAD.
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Just wanted to add: I don't condone his behavior. It was bad. I do believe he went overboard, even for our standards. But as we are a community without rules written down, we understand (as @pie_flavor and @Karla, and others?) said that people are banned for repeated unwanted behavior after being warned. Being an asshole or a raving dick was never enough.
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@kt_ said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
eunuch thing.
As far as forum rules go don't thread on the mods/admins seems a common one
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@kt_ I haven't even seen him spam anything, just argue in a thread that really should have been in the Garage but was in Meta instead. And he posted some Discord screenshots, but I'm assuming it's a public Discord so I don't think that's a problem either.
Either a bunch of posts got completely deleted, or he spammed someone's PMs.
Also where's @boomzilla? I wonder if he knows anything, but it seems he hasn't posted anything after the ban happened.
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@blek said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
Also where's @boomzilla? I wonder if he knows anything, but it seems he hasn't posted anything after the ban happened.
Wondering this too.
He was also the object of some of the name-calling.
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So I sleep in and wake up to the drama having boiled over into more permanent actions? What the shit?
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@Groaner You caused this by going to sleep! Never do that again!
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@blek said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
@Groaner You caused this by going to sleep! Never do that again!
I think I deserved some rest after coming back from a long trip in the field via Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc Airlines.
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This Reddit thread seems appropriate and/or relevant:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/b7b1z8/failed_arrest_in_commerce_city/
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@MathNerdCNU said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
This Reddit thread seems appropriate and/or relevant:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/b7b1z8/failed_arrest_in_commerce_city/
Haha! Indeed and a 100x yup!
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@kt_ "For what...?" The question that will echo throughout history.
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@Karla said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
@blek said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
Also where's @boomzilla? I wonder if he knows anything, but it seems he hasn't posted anything after the ban happened.
Wondering this too.
He was also the object of some of the name-calling.
Let's not forget that @Polygeekery is just another one of @boomzilla's alts. Which means that poor old boom was banned too!
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@blek said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
Also where's @boomzilla? I wonder if he knows anything, but it seems he hasn't posted anything after the ban happened.
If someone made @boomzilla do some work, I'm surprised the ban was only 3 days.
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@Karla said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
Yeah, I am biased, I like @Polygeekery and have similar political views so I'm being lumped into the same groups.
I live in an extremely blue city, in a blue state, the Garage gives me some respite being bombarded with hostility for having a different opinion than everyone around me.This. I wish I could give you more than one upvote.
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@kt_ But... if Boomzilla is banned, and we're all his alts...
I don't feel so good
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@MathNerdCNU said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
@kt_ "For what...?" The question that will echo throughout history.
That's what echo chambers are for, aren't they?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
@Karla said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
Yeah, I am biased, I like @Polygeekery and have similar political views so I'm being lumped into the same groups.
I live in an extremely blue city, in a blue state, the Garage gives me some respite being bombarded with hostility for having a different opinion than everyone around me.This. I wish I could give you more than one upvote.
Well, what happens is, quite often the garage feels as a red state. I think it was you that used the term "libtard" in meta recently…
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@kt_ said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
quite often the garage feels as a red state
There are some vocal conservatives there, undeniably. However, there are also vocal liberals, and there is a lot of back-and-forth between them. Yesterday was certainly an example of that, though not a particularly good example, as there was much more heat than light. But both sides voice their opinions there, and as I've said, I've learned things from both sides. I don't understand the people who call it an echo chamber, because it is not, or doesn't seem to me, dominated by either side. (The voice that does tend to be missing is the middle. I try to fill that spot on some topics, at least.)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
@kt_ said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
quite often the garage feels as a red state
I don't understand the people who call it an echo chamber, because it is not, or doesn't seem to me, dominated by either side.
Look at the vote counts of cheap shot posts of “you’re a fucking nazi” vs “you’re a fucking commie”.
I’m not going to try
’s search, but I don’t expect them to be balanced.
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@topspin said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
but I don’t expect them to be balanced.
Well, this isn't Fox News you know.
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@topspin Just posts in general. Fellow circle-jerking: easily at least 3. Stating an opposing position: insults and very often below -2.
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@blek said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
Either a bunch of posts got completely deleted, or he spammed someone's PMs.
I was enjoying insomnia, so I was watching pretty closely (while my cat snored beside me). I didn't see anything get deleted. But as the mods aren't saying anything, we don't know if it was PM or not.
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@Deadfast You do know that Fox has the journalistic integrity of breitbart and the accuracy of a moron trying to give a speech on acid, right? Even just reading the article, it has two sources: a facebook post from a secondary source and a local news site that itself cites zero sources and adds nothing to the credibility of the story. Furthermore, it doesn't list the author of the article. Yet another perfect example of the shady practices that made Fox famous for being a fake news site. For all we know, this entire situation could be made up, and even assuming the local news site is telling the truth to the best of their ability, that still just means that the McD's franchise owner received a complaint and responded to that complaint in some fashion, which could just as easily have been to check security camera footage, see that the cop was not treated that way, and promptly ignore the complaint.
