An Official Banning Policy?

I would say that you were skirting the "Don't leave rude edit reasons" myself. Rommel held five different commands in WWII; four of them were tank commands. Only the last one was a mixed command, and it was relatively tank-heavy. He was not an Infantry commander who liked tanks; he was a tank commander who successfully adopted and adapted Infantry tactics.

edited 20th Nov '10 1:56:15 PM by Madrugada

I truncated this thread as it was mostly people being dumb enough to take troll bait from here forward. Wake up, please.

edited 18th Dec '10 12:06:39 PM by FastEddie

What does truncated mean?

edited 18th Dec '10 12:14:20 PM by LandOfGold

That he deleted a few dozen posts about somebody complaining about the moderation here.

Cut off.

Is it possible to be Forum-banned for consistently bad grammar?

Probably.

The pages in this thread are a bit messed up now.

Why on Earth would that be a bannable offense?

Anyway, if it's not in the forum rules it's not a bannable offense.

It's possible to be edit banned for bad grammar though.

But that's on the wiki. Not the forum.

Argh. I fixed the thread title before my eyes started bleeding. Can't believe it took that long.

edited 22nd Dec '10 12:00:55 PM by Fighteer

...What did it say before?

"Offical"

At least it wasn't missing the C and the other I, too.

I support banning of offal. And I apologize for the irrelevance of this post.

edited 22nd Dec '10 3:38:28 PM by BlackWolfe

While I don't particularly like Mr/s. Human's rather condescending tone, I too would like to know why the Google Ban has superseded regular forum bans and the like. Just out of curiosity of course, I don't plan on being banned any time soon (or ever, for that matter).

We still do hand out more standard bans than Google bans, and almost all Google bans are for trolls.

Something to thing about: if someone shoots another person, is the right response to take away their right to own a gun?

If it's not self defense.

No, 'cause there's other ways to kill people than with a gun. Thus prison.

edited 18th Jan '11 5:46:20 PM by Zudak

It might be interesting to see if there's a correlation between people who think Google bans are too harsh and people who hate the death penalty . . .

Anyway, they're supposed to be a deterrent. If you're really naughty, not only do you lose the ability to be naughty any more (edit or post, as the case may be), but you even lose the ability to read. It's the sort of things that exists for the special kind of person who doesn't actually give a damn about editing and only uses it to vandalize pages when he's bored.

Google bans are more likely to be noticed. They are far less common than simple edit or forum bans.

Hm. I guess.

So it's like Vocal Minority and Silent Majority then?

Yep. Exactly like that.