Oh dear. No leeway for us really old guys? Frank and I are both 83. :worry:

He had his 84th birthday a few weeks ago.

once you turn 84 that's the limit. Out you go. Involuntary philosophical retirement.

Was it low quality or gaslighting? We can only make a blind guess. — praxis

Every once in a while there is a banning that makes us all up our game a little. :wink:

The innuendo escapes me. I understand that the bar is extremely low. Low enough where even I don't need to worry about hitting it.

I was trying to talk him out of repeating the same thing over and over again

God bless Frank. I think he meant well, it's just that more often than not, he seemed like a fish out of water. Not to mention his emotions (which are a good thing) may have gotten the best of him....

Gotta say that I'm sad to see him go. He had a charm to him.

Banned @Jerseyflight. Multiple PMs from the community; evangelizing; drama llama.

:ok: No surprise.

That's unfortunate. I liked his defense of socialism early on but could see the potential for things to get too heated. I'm sorry to see the latter ended up dominating his time here.

It's a great thing that the old guys on the Forum don't 'sound' old at all! I'm 74, your junior. Alas, it will always be that way.

Yeh it's unfortunate that his fanaticism is what came to the fore. He was warned about it several times, so the ban didn't come out of nowhere.

Jerzey Flight wasn't a drama lama. He was a drama unicorn fighting on behalf of us invertebrates and lesser mammals. He luckily escaped God's chosen menagerie on the ark.

Now that he is free from the prison (zoo) that is the PF, he can work on changing the world for the better, by using his magic horn rhetoric to fix human misery by activating philosophers to move. The masses should rise up and take to the streets on the backs of courageous beasts like Jerzey, who are more than just internet writers.

From one cell to the next, pry the locks open with force and let the animals free to scare their masters.

Reminded me of TGW.

The Golfers Warehouse?

The Great Whatever... a poster from here and the old forum who was banned.

Ah, he was Great in spirit, I think would be hard to deny.

Politically speaking, I agreed with both by and in large... although I reject the Capitalism/Socialism dichotomy. Both seemed to be fairly smart fairly well educated people. Shame that the emotional self regulation wasn't up to the task. However, I can certainly relate and empathize.

Guys and girls please keep this thread on topic, thanks.

Since it came up, I banned @bccampello. Who is returning banned member @Bruno Campello, also @BrunoCampello also @bcccampello among others. I banned Bruno originally for two things:

(1) Advertising.
(2) Posting something that endorsed an anti-semitic conspiracy theory.

@SophistiCat @Hippyhead.

He was also @smartguy.

Blessed are the banned in spirit, for they shall sell God.

Oh so he was. I wonder why they keep coming back.

Obviously, this is a location of the highest quality, making it extremely desirable. And, they love you fdrake, desiring more and more of your authoritarian ways.

What can I say, my bar is high. No anti-semitic conspiracy theories. Truly a huge expectation for any enlightened mind.

Guys and girls please keep this thread on topic, thanks. — StreetlightX

And, please note, the real topic of this thread is talking about departed members behind their backs once they no longer have the opportunity to reply. How courageous!

I don't think we really need to know who was banned, or have a public discussion of their supposed personal shortcomings. But knowing why a person was banned could be helpful in assisting the rest of us in avoiding such behaviors. So, this chatty gossip thread might be replaced with a neutral information only listing like this:

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Date: xx/xx/xxxx
Mod: some_mod
Notice: A member was banned today for the following reasons:
Reasons: X, Y and Z
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That will just lead to people starting separate threads to complain about bannings.

It makes far more sense to keep doing what we're doing in my view. You're not under any obligation to view the thread though, so feel free to ignore it.