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Should we ban Scotty?

shoutOut on 11/12/08 by Eric in wordUp

Quite a few of you have mailed and contacted us in the last few days, saying that Scotty should be banned from springleap.

What should it take for a person to get banned?

He’s been rude to others, but quite a few people have been rude to others, and no-one asked them to be banned.

But his language has been a little extreme in my opinion.

but springleap isn’t about my opinion. it’s about what we all think.

the only thing which i think is fair is to have a competition with one entry – voting for whether scotty should be banned from springleap.

you like, or anyone got better ideas on how to handle this?

shoutBacks

awesome stuff that he got banned… he really was awful in terms of his statements… just a pity we didnt get the chance to see Goggl3boy whip his #ss in the design-off… lol.. that would have been awesome….

shoutBack on 15/1/09 by killerminibus

Lol @ mikdog xD dude that was classic. anyway, tis great news that he’s gone, his karma was simply awful =[

shoutBack on 29/12/08 by Bingbong

ZING!!

shoutBack on 23/12/08 by IntegralApparel

holla tB! (I say tB cos I just can’t imagine calling someone theBrigand in life)

Good riddance and good job :)

shoutBack on 23/12/08 by Tu

Scotty got pwned. He had it coming. He had it coming. He only had himself to blame. You should have seen it. If you’d have been there, I bet you you would have done the same. <- CHICAGO. Meh.

shoutBack on 23/12/08 by mikdog

here’s what theBrigand wrote….

OK – Scotty – you have been warned enough times.

Let me be candid that I am absolutely appalled by you.

YOU HAVE A FILTHY MOUTH AND A POOR ATTITUDE – Springleap is clearly not the place for you. Please take your miscreant behavior elsewhere.

Your clear disregard for the spirit of the site and the potential age of the users is really quite telling of your personality.

We are HUGE on second chances and we really tried to give you some rope. It seems you used it to critically hang yourself.

Your account is being removed and you are hereby banned. Your e-mail has been flagged as well.

Springleapers – our apologies that you have had to be subjected to this sort of nonsense.

Oh – and your real account – Stathi, has been removed. This account has also been flagged. PS – we know who you are, and we are waaaatching Stathi.. oops I mean Scotty. We will be dropping your lecturers at Vega an e-mail regarding your behavior.

I think a lesson in professionalism is long overdue for you.

shoutBack on 23/12/08 by Eric

scotty has been banned – see the message that theBrigand wrote to him

shoutBack on 23/12/08 by Eric

I know its a bit late for feedback here, but I’d like to add a few ideas for the criteria of banning.

I’ve belonged to a few design communities online and the general FAQ’s and terms and conditions usually out line the following as grounds for a ban or the removal of posts that are offensive or illegal:

Forum Conduct:
1: Multiple Accounts or “sock puppeting”.
2: Excessive use of bad language.
3: “Trolling” or harassing other members of the site, Defined as:
3.1. To irritate or torment persistently.
3.2. To verbally provoke another member for the purpose of eliciting an emotional response.
4: Racism.
5: Spamming defined as:
5.1: Spam is promoting your product or service where its not wanted, a bit like junk mail.
6: Posting requests for free work.
7:Privacy, defined as:
7.1: Respecting other people’s right to personal privacy and not posting any other person’s identifying information (including their names, contact information, and any other relevant information) within the forums.
8:Posting any material that is knowingly false, misleading, or inaccurate.
9: Illegal Content defined as:
9.1: Posting about Warez, Serials, Hacking, Virus Creation, P2P, file sharing, drugs, underage drinking or anything else illegal.

shoutBack on 18/12/08 by AntiNexus

I dont see the point in banning him. He can just sign up under a different name. But if there is a way I say hell yes ban him, he is an insulting irritating no good “designer”. Notice the “ “ its because I havent seen any designs from him.

shoutBack on 18/12/08 by KingC

alterego Goggl3boy! we want attention for springleap but NO, we don’t want to irritate, anger and upset you guys that are helping make this happen! so this is def NOT one of our marketing or pr strategies

shoutBack on 18/12/08 by Eric