Where in the World is pimpdave?

[pmchugh]

FREE NORSE!



oh wait he was a dick

[MeDeFe]

FREE ALL OF THEM!

/drunk

[InkL0sed]

FREE DAGIP!

/ironic

[Army of GOD]

FREE INKLOOSED

/wut

[Timminz]

FREE HAT

[neanderpaul14]

Isn't Pimpdave visiting InsomniaRed?

[shieldgenerator7]

yeah, what happened to that dude?

and what happened to forum goers unknown to me such as norse, mustard, etc.? seriously, what happened?

Where is FT?! He's been gone for how long now? He was a very fun dude to post with! Where'd he go?

[Phatscotty]

all the multis are out tonight!

[Haggis_McMutton]

yeah, what happened to that dude?

and what happened to forum goers unknown to me such as norse, mustard, etc.? seriously, what happened?

Where is FT?! He's been gone for how long now? He was a very fun dude to post with! Where'd he go?

This is all you need to know.

Also, since when does MDF have my avatar?

[CreepersWiener]

His usage of the term "Tea Party Death Squad" was apparently reported every time, by certain members of this forum who felt that it was abusive towards their political beliefs. He's only allowed to post in the Society of Cooks, any clans/usergroups he's in, or the Conquer Club Announcement page.

He was a bit over-the-top with the Tea Party Death Squad thing.

That said... I don't think it's perma-ban worthy and never reported him.

Though I did get some bans too for "getting into it" with him on here.

I kinda miss him... not really, but a little.

TPDS was pimpdave's signature thread. I really don't know why it would deserve a ban? Was it considered spam? I miss anyone that you are use to seeing in the forums.

I got banned once for saying pimpdave posted porn

viewtopic.php?f=239&t=144768&start=0&hilit=porn

I was seriously drunk that night...no excuse...I got banned. That's why you should be able to request a 24 hour ban when you know you will be getting drunk.

[InkL0sed]

yeah, what happened to that dude?

and what happened to forum goers unknown to me such as norse, mustard, etc.? seriously, what happened?

Where is FT?! He's been gone for how long now? He was a very fun dude to post with! Where'd he go?

This is all you need to know.

Also, since when does MDF have my avatar?

[notyou2]

jim, you may not have reported it, but someone did, who knows. it's not like they told him in the e-mail

woody, there are still instances in which a perma-ban can still be used, apparently. it's been 6 months and still no word, we don't deserve it?

tgd, if you're in the know... then why is he still gone?

and Aog, i wasn't hacked, i'm just telling pd's story since he isn't able to do so himself.

also, if saxi is reading this, pd said he wishes he could participate in the friends challenge

He's still gone because time elapsed since 6 month ban < 6 months. He was indeed not permabanned, as those are reserved for Major Infractions, and we've since amended our procedures:

Minor Infractions follow the traditional vacation escalation scale of:
1. Warning,
2. 24 Hour Vacation,
3. 72 Hour Vacation,
4. One Week Vacation,
5. One Month Vacation,
6. 3 Month Vacation †, with repeated 3 Month Vacations as necessary upon a Minor Infraction upon release from the max vacation.
Say a Minor Infraction of Spamming leads to a user's first Minor Warning. If they are subsequently found in violation with any Minor Infraction at a later date, be it Necro-bumping, Avatar Abuse, "Cheating and Abuse Report" Abuse, etc, the next level will be up the scale, even if the first Warning was not associated with the second infraction.

6-month banishments are over! Unfortunately, this was enforced a little while after PD's sentence.

-rd

The problem is that there were many severly bogus punishments given, so people receive actual bans for longer than they should because the first and second infractions came from mods that apparently should not be given authority of any kind.

Can't you develop tests to root out the power hungry?????

[CreepersWiener]

jim, you may not have reported it, but someone did, who knows. it's not like they told him in the e-mail

woody, there are still instances in which a perma-ban can still be used, apparently. it's been 6 months and still no word, we don't deserve it?

tgd, if you're in the know... then why is he still gone?

and Aog, i wasn't hacked, i'm just telling pd's story since he isn't able to do so himself.

also, if saxi is reading this, pd said he wishes he could participate in the friends challenge

He's still gone because time elapsed since 6 month ban < 6 months. He was indeed not permabanned, as those are reserved for Major Infractions, and we've since amended our procedures:

Minor Infractions follow the traditional vacation escalation scale of:
1. Warning,
2. 24 Hour Vacation,
3. 72 Hour Vacation,
4. One Week Vacation,
5. One Month Vacation,
6. 3 Month Vacation †, with repeated 3 Month Vacations as necessary upon a Minor Infraction upon release from the max vacation.
Say a Minor Infraction of Spamming leads to a user's first Minor Warning. If they are subsequently found in violation with any Minor Infraction at a later date, be it Necro-bumping, Avatar Abuse, "Cheating and Abuse Report" Abuse, etc, the next level will be up the scale, even if the first Warning was not associated with the second infraction.

6-month banishments are over! Unfortunately, this was enforced a little while after PD's sentence.

-rd

The problem is that there were many severly bogus punishments given, so people receive actual bans for longer than they should because the first and second infractions came from mods that apparently should not be given authority of any kind.

Can't you develop tests to root out the power hungry?????

It's kind of similar to my work. I've been working at a factory for over six years. I know my job well and I hardly have any quality issues. Now we have some new employees on the line, and their quality is real shite. So, the management decided to hold everyone accountable for their quality and gave three employees at the end of the line authority to write people up. All three are immature young kids, basically. They have only worked at the factory for about a year. Anyway, one of the inspectors was holding up the production line and is buddies with the line coordinator. The coordinator wasn't doing anything about it, so I talked to my group leader to get the line moving. Now, the three inspectors didn't like me being a "tattle-tale", so I started to get wrote up for minor quality issues that were non-existent beforehand. If I were to get three write ups for the day, I would be pulled into the office and given a verbal warning, and so on. Basically, I could lose my job that I've been working at for six years because of some immature kids that were given a tad bit of power over the masses.

[thegreekdog]

Question (and I suppose a point) - if the moderators who imposed Rule X are no longer moderators and the new moderators think Rule X is a bad rule and change it, how does anyone look bad?

Because the new mods aren't willing to lower the sentences of those who were affected by Rule X. If they really believe there shouldn't be a ban of more than 3 months, then they should lower all outstanding bans of more than 3 months to exactly 3 months.

The explanation as to why the new mods aren't willing to lower the sentences was "they would be embarrassed." I'm wondering how they would be embarrassed if they weren't the ones to handle the old bans?

In sum, you didn't answer my question.

[clapper011]

jim, you may not have reported it, but someone did, who knows. it's not like they told him in the e-mail

woody, there are still instances in which a perma-ban can still be used, apparently. it's been 6 months and still no word, we don't deserve it?

tgd, if you're in the know... then why is he still gone?

and Aog, i wasn't hacked, i'm just telling pd's story since he isn't able to do so himself.

also, if saxi is reading this, pd said he wishes he could participate in the friends challenge

He's still gone because time elapsed since 6 month ban < 6 months. He was indeed not permabanned, as those are reserved for Major Infractions, and we've since amended our procedures:

Minor Infractions follow the traditional vacation escalation scale of:
1. Warning,
2. 24 Hour Vacation,
3. 72 Hour Vacation,
4. One Week Vacation,
5. One Month Vacation,
6. 3 Month Vacation †, with repeated 3 Month Vacations as necessary upon a Minor Infraction upon release from the max vacation.
Say a Minor Infraction of Spamming leads to a user's first Minor Warning. If they are subsequently found in violation with any Minor Infraction at a later date, be it Necro-bumping, Avatar Abuse, "Cheating and Abuse Report" Abuse, etc, the next level will be up the scale, even if the first Warning was not associated with the second infraction.

6-month banishments are over! Unfortunately, this was enforced a little while after PD's sentence.

-rd

The problem is that there were many severly bogus punishments given, so people receive actual bans for longer than they should because the first and second infractions came from mods that apparently should not be given authority of any kind.

Can't you develop tests to root out the power hungry?????

indeed we are now. There are several mod training groups now. So a mod is trained for a bit and then moved from training into the field (whether its global or discussions or wherever the will mod.)

[Neoteny]

Question (and I suppose a point) - if the moderators who imposed Rule X are no longer moderators and the new moderators think Rule X is a bad rule and change it, how does anyone look bad?

Because the new mods aren't willing to lower the sentences of those who were affected by Rule X. If they really believe there shouldn't be a ban of more than 3 months, then they should lower all outstanding bans of more than 3 months to exactly 3 months.

The explanation as to why the new mods aren't willing to lower the sentences was "they would be embarrassed." I'm wondering how they would be embarrassed if they weren't the ones to handle the old bans?

In sum, you didn't answer my question.

If I had to guesss, it's because the new mods would be seen as talking out of both sides of their mouth. They would agree that a certain punishment is too harsh, and yet do nothing to rectify the situation, despite having the power to do so. If one viewed that as hypocritical, then I imagine that would be embarassing. If not, then not.

[thegreekdog]

Question (and I suppose a point) - if the moderators who imposed Rule X are no longer moderators and the new moderators think Rule X is a bad rule and change it, how does anyone look bad?

Because the new mods aren't willing to lower the sentences of those who were affected by Rule X. If they really believe there shouldn't be a ban of more than 3 months, then they should lower all outstanding bans of more than 3 months to exactly 3 months.

The explanation as to why the new mods aren't willing to lower the sentences was "they would be embarrassed." I'm wondering how they would be embarrassed if they weren't the ones to handle the old bans?

In sum, you didn't answer my question.

If I had to guesss, it's because the new mods would be seen as talking out of both sides of their mouth. They would agree that a certain punishment is too harsh, and yet do nothing to rectify the situation, despite having the power to do so. If one viewed that as hypocritical, then I imagine that would be embarassing. If not, then not.

My answer would have been - it has nothing to do with the new moderators (50% of the time, I ask questions I already know the answer to); but this is an acceptable answer.

[Neoteny]

Question (and I suppose a point) - if the moderators who imposed Rule X are no longer moderators and the new moderators think Rule X is a bad rule and change it, how does anyone look bad?

Because the new mods aren't willing to lower the sentences of those who were affected by Rule X. If they really believe there shouldn't be a ban of more than 3 months, then they should lower all outstanding bans of more than 3 months to exactly 3 months.

The explanation as to why the new mods aren't willing to lower the sentences was "they would be embarrassed." I'm wondering how they would be embarrassed if they weren't the ones to handle the old bans?

In sum, you didn't answer my question.

If I had to guesss, it's because the new mods would be seen as talking out of both sides of their mouth. They would agree that a certain punishment is too harsh, and yet do nothing to rectify the situation, despite having the power to do so. If one viewed that as hypocritical, then I imagine that would be embarassing. If not, then not.

My answer would have been - it has nothing to do with the new moderators (50% of the time, I ask questions I already know the answer to); but this is an acceptable answer.

I do this too, but I am terrible at guessing how someone will answer, so I usually end up putting way more effort into a second response than I would have originally preferred.

[notyou2]

jim, you may not have reported it, but someone did, who knows. it's not like they told him in the e-mail

woody, there are still instances in which a perma-ban can still be used, apparently. it's been 6 months and still no word, we don't deserve it?

tgd, if you're in the know... then why is he still gone?

and Aog, i wasn't hacked, i'm just telling pd's story since he isn't able to do so himself.

also, if saxi is reading this, pd said he wishes he could participate in the friends challenge

He's still gone because time elapsed since 6 month ban < 6 months. He was indeed not permabanned, as those are reserved for Major Infractions, and we've since amended our procedures:

Minor Infractions follow the traditional vacation escalation scale of:
1. Warning,
2. 24 Hour Vacation,
3. 72 Hour Vacation,
4. One Week Vacation,
5. One Month Vacation,
6. 3 Month Vacation †, with repeated 3 Month Vacations as necessary upon a Minor Infraction upon release from the max vacation.
Say a Minor Infraction of Spamming leads to a user's first Minor Warning. If they are subsequently found in violation with any Minor Infraction at a later date, be it Necro-bumping, Avatar Abuse, "Cheating and Abuse Report" Abuse, etc, the next level will be up the scale, even if the first Warning was not associated with the second infraction.

6-month banishments are over! Unfortunately, this was enforced a little while after PD's sentence.

-rd

The problem is that there were many severly bogus punishments given, so people receive actual bans for longer than they should because the first and second infractions came from mods that apparently should not be given authority of any kind.

Can't you develop tests to root out the power hungry?????

indeed we are now. There are several mod training groups now. So a mod is trained for a bit and then moved from training into the field (whether its global or discussions or wherever the will mod.)

Well that is a start and good to hear

[InkL0sed]

Hey mods, when I said to take your time, it didn't mean I was giving you guys license to just let this thread die. I'm still waiting for a response.

[Army of GOD]

Hey mods, when I said to take your time, it didn't mean I was giving you guys license to just let this thread die. I'm still waiting for a response.

Don't worry, they're "talking about it behind the scenes". Or at least that's the excuse when they want something to die.

[Neoteny]

:cricket:

[whitestazn88]

:cricket:

he's in a coma, the mods don't need to discuss it further. but once the surgery is finished, the docs will take him off the medically induced coma, and he'll be back

[BoganGod]

in a coma????? come on kiddies. That isn't cool to patients everywhere. gimpslave is highly unlikely to be back on this site anytime soon, because he is most probably harnessing what intelligence he possesses for good. For once in his life. He has probably been told that no more tea party death squad cut and paste threads will be allowed so has sworn off CC in a monumental sulk.

[InkL0sed]

No he's in a coma. For meditation purposes.