banning members

[winthrop fisher]

Hi everone...

i have been on this board for around three years, and like everone else i am trying to work with this new board, but some thing really got to me the other day when i was trying to answer a post and it would not let me, so i let it go.
but later as i got better on this board with the help from walt.
i went back to answer a question at the same one, and i could not post again.
i was going thru some of the information on the board and found this
(banning members on this board).

i don't think this should be used, because i thought we had a great board, but i am finding people using it.

thank you, we are all CD'er right.
i guess not.

thanks winthrop

any one else have any thing to add ??????

[Roy J.]

Winthrop,

I started a string on the "About this Board" forum to get the facts about banning. There must be rules, and I assume one of them is that only the webmaster can do such a thing. Your problem sounds more like a technical glitch in the board's functioning at the time youwere trying to post. I suggest that we take this conversation over to the "about this board" forum, and hopefully our wonderful webmasters will clue us in with the real 411.

[winthrop fisher]

Hi... i was only telling everone want happen, and it did happen.
yes i was having trouble just like everone else, but this on the same post three different times over and all the other post were just fine, besides what is a 411 my old vw from 74.
really what is a 411. you could be right. winthrop

Winthrop,

I started a string on the "About this Board" forum to get the facts about banning. There must be rules, and I assume one of them is that only the webmaster can do such a thing. Your problem sounds more like a technical glitch in the board's functioning at the time youwere trying to post. I suggest that we take this conversation over to the "about this board" forum, and hopefully our wonderful webmasters will clue us in with the real 411.

[dennis]

winthrop,

411 is slang for information, like when you dial 411 on the phone.

Dennis

[bilofsky]

Winthrop -

See this post for an explanation of banning.

I guess you saw banning mentioned in the FAQ.

A lot of the FAQ is taken from the standard language provided with this message board software, which is used for thousands of communities with all different sorts of people in them. Some of them are a lot ruder than sailors (and I am going to include Cape Dory powerboat owners like myself in with the polite sailors even though I could name a few other brands of power boats which might be in the rude category - in fact there is a cigarette type boat here on San Francisco Bay named Rude and it sure is).

But I digress. We are a good bunch of people, and there's a lot of features on this board we don't need to use and banning is one of them.

Winthrop, this is your home, so relax and if someone spills something on the rug now and then, no big deal, we are all family.

- Walt

P.S. Roy is correct that this topic belongs over in "About This Board" and I might move it over there a little later. But no one's going to get banned for that.

[joe baltar]

I assume only members from Boston would be banned.

[bilofsky]

Bob Dugan is from Boston (or near enough). So maybe we'll put him in charge of banning. If drastic measures are required, perhaps burning at the stake can also be considered.

(I lived in the Boston area for 8 years. That's where I learned to sail - and drive.)

[bobdugan]

Hey,

Not only am I from Boston, but we keep Cricket in Salem, MA.
Soo... we're pretty familliar with the technique of stakes,
fires, and social control.

Bob

[Richard Cashore]

I assume only members from Boston would be banned.

Since you all have initiated/resurected the subject of being "banned" I have suggestions for those of us who may be concerned:

1. Avoid parades. Every time a high school or college group passes in review and plays their instruments you may consider yourself to have been banned.

2. Avoid waring rings. Like it or not, those of us who ware rings are banned. I think it only applies to rings on fingers and toes tho. Rings in noses, tongues, belly buttons (I like bb much better than navel), or etc.

3. Avoid members of the Audubon Society when on catch and release excursions. If you get too close to the action you may be banned as well.

Mercifully I will stop here. However, with very little encouragement
I would be pleased to continue. This is the point at which my beloved spouse advises, "Trust me, don't do it. You'll be sorry".

I do enjoy this board. I finally fumbled into successful registration. I don't know how I did it and don't need to know since I shouldn't have to ever register again.

Heaven help me, or maybe Cathy/Walt?, if I decide to try the AVATAR thing. Whatever that is.

Best,

Richard

[bilofsky]

Uh, Richard? We may have to rethink this banning thing.

This is the point at which my beloved spouse advises, "Trust me, don't do it. You'll be sorry".

Yup. Always listen to her with whom you've shared the banns.

Heaven help me, or maybe Cathy/Walt?, if I decide to try the AVATAR thing. Whatever that is.

See here.

[Roy J.]

I live in Marblehead as a Salem refugee (another time-honored tradition, the original Marbleheaders left Salem because they thought the Puritan regime of 1629 too harsh for their freer-thinking ways), so I guess that qualifies me to weigh in on banning. As a general rule I'm against it, and among a group as warm and generous as this one, am even more so. So if Bob Dugan and I are put in charge of banning then almost everybody is safe.

Really I'm just kidding -- they have banned some of the world's best books and sauciest (for the time) movies in Boston, and consequently should not be used as a model for banning behavior.

I just wanted Winthrop to know that he wasn't being banned and to call on someone who actually knew how it worked to let us know. That accomplished, I will begin dreaming of the day when I can access my boat without getting a shoefull of snow.

[winthrop fisher]

Yes we are one big happy family and i am sorry, winthrop

I live in Marblehead as a Salem refugee (another time-honored tradition, the original Marbleheaders left Salem because they thought the Puritan regime of 1629 too harsh for their freer-thinking ways), so I guess that qualifies me to weigh in on banning. As a general rule I'm against it, and among a group as warm and generous as this one, am even more so. So if Bob Dugan and I are put in charge of banning then almost everybody is safe.

Really I'm just kidding -- they have banned some of the world's best books and sauciest (for the time) movies in Boston, and consequently should not be used as a model for banning behavior.

I just wanted Winthrop to know that he wasn't being banned and to call on someone who actually knew how it worked to let us know. That accomplished, I will begin dreaming of the day when I can access my boat without getting a shoefull of snow.

[Parfait's Provider]

Ugh! I hadn't thought of that in quite awhile. A frosty image indeed. I left MA/NH for warmer climes most recently in 1987 and my reward has been occasional 70 degree days in February which warm the heart and give the daffodils the impetus to poke up and, just yesterday, to bloom. The azaleas are budded and about to bloom too. It must be time to go sailing.