What it takes to get banned from FR? (Vanity)

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[CSM]

Given the rumors and speculation regarding banning of individuals from FR, I took the suggestion of another poster to start a thread around the topic. I have gone back and reread the rules and the specific speculation of posting to one type of thread or posting one type of article only is not called out as against the rules.

So, outside of the rules, what constitutes being banned or suspended from posting on FR?

[Sir Gawain]

What I say is true. Get over it.

[dennisw]

To give LeRoy credit, he was always more civil to me than I was to him. He was a polite enough poster. He was not a complainer. He should just broaden his horizons beyond the WOD. It's ridiculous to make the WOD your main political thrust.

[ellery]

So you prefer that he be banned rather than you exercise restraint by not visiting the drug threads he posts? :)

[LPM1888]

Mr LeRoy's posts have provided a valuable information source for discussing a very important problem in today's society. I can't see anything abusive about any of his post's. I respectfully request that Mr Leroy be reinstated.

[ellery]

I hope management will reconsider and reinstate Mr. LeRoy -- people who post lots of articles benefit this site, IMHO.

[Xenalyte]

Free Mr. LeRoy!

[robertpaulsen]

"So you prefer that he be banned rather than you exercise restraint by not visiting the drug threads he posts?"

There you go. I need someone else to make these decisions for me, being so weak-willed and all.

Actually, I couldn't care less one way or the other. It wasn't my idea (or my doing) to suspend his account to begin with.

Interesting that you call for his return, not knowing the reason for his suspension.

[Admin Moderator]

After repeatly being told by Jim to stop certain behaviors or posting a lot of vanities that trash this site, is one way.

[Admin Moderator]

You are correct. We don't worry about bandwidth as mods. We do get complaints about load time on threads that have too many graphics though. We might remove a post, or modify the body of a thread if it's a hugh problem. Remember the trial host FR link to store pictures a couple years ago? That was eating up bandwidth.

[Admin Moderator]

Moderators do not ban long time posters. That decision is completely up to Jim.

[Admin Moderator]

If you're on dialup. Sorry (Similar to not having Foxnews in your area). I had dialup for a couple years moderating. Glad my area finally got cable, too far away from DSL. It's worth the extra couple bucks a month I'm charged.

[Lead Moderator]

When you find out, let me know. I've been trying to get banned for years without luck.

[HairOfTheDog]

You can view his most recent posts at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/site/user-posts?name=mrleroy and judge for yourself if there is anything remotely objectionable there.

Wouldn't any really objectionable posts have been removed?

[xrp]

Well, your particular post which I am replying to is approximately 515 bytes. I'd say a running average of each post on Free Republic would be in the 1000 byte range. Since you can preview how many replies a post has, you can get a good, general idea before you click on it. So a 1 post started and 19 followups might come in around 20,000 bytes or 320,000 bits (this page of this thread is around 23,000 bytes), which a 56kilobit modem, connected at 49,996 bits per second would take about 3.2 seconds to download. If you have DSL, which downloads in greater than 512,000bits per second, it would take less than 3/8 of a second to download.

Now, if images are tacked in, that of course increases YOUR download time as you are drawing bandwidth from multiple sources to generate the full experience. So a thread could have 20 total posts for 20,000 bytes of data on FR, but each post could link in a 1,000,000 byte BITMAP from other websites that would increase your total aggregate post download to 20,020,000 bytes (or 20 Megabytes). Since FR.com has no way of polling the thousands of websites whose hosted images are linked on FR.com, there is no way for them to accurately show what the total bandwidth (thus time) would be for loading the thread.

So, if you don't like long loads, quit your complaining and just turn off images in your web browser.

[sweet_diane]

This is not our site, this is not our site, this is not our site. Jim Robinson et al can ban whomever he/they want for whatever reason and, as far as I know, don't owe anyone an explanation.

MrLeRoy was passionate about a topic that most conservatives seem to be very uncomfortable with and, many times, are unable to discuss rationally. Maybe he went off the deep end and threatened someones life and limb??? Who knows... I'm sure I'll never know so I can't in good conscious ask for his return.

I do know I'm playing more Slingo and doing more housework!

[ellery]

Do you know why he was suspended? If so, do tell. I've seen enough of his posts to at least give him the benefit of the doubt, absent incriminating information.

[tacticalogic]

I''ve had to resort to that, occasionally. In many cases the offending images are posted in lieu of a comment, and don't express anything that couldn't be said in a couple of sentences.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"MrLeRoy was passionate about a topic that most conservatives seem to be very uncomfortable with and, many times, are unable to discuss rationally"

So it's his fault that some dites-moi "conservatives" are uncomfortable with freedom?

And further, it's also his fault that they become [even more] irrational?

And it's an improvement if he is removed because his very presence spotlights their irrationality?

[Yeti]

And it's an improvement if he is removed because his very presence spotlights their irrationality?

I'd say that's it in a nutshell.

[tacticalogic]

This is not our site, this is not our site, this is not our site. Jim Robinson et al can ban whomever he/they want for whatever reason and, as far as I know, don't owe anyone an explanation.

I think JR will do whatever he thinks is in the best interest of FR in any given set of circumstances. I also think it's entirely possible that we may not be aware of all the circumstances, or that JR and MLR are the only personalities involved.