When Was the Last MA&D Banning?

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I don't really like MADB. I am only just beginning to like this.
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Re: When Was the Last MA&D Banning?

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Mister Scratch wrote:Perhaps it's just me, but I seem to have noticed quite a significant "cut back" in the number of warnings, admonitions, and bannings on the aptly named MADboard. Is this indicative of a kind of "panic mode" over there, I.e., a fear that the board, sans critics, is drifting ever-closer towards irrelevance?


I personally don't think so. I think it's just symptomatic of the fact that they've finally gotten the board they always wanted.

Who was the last critic to be banned?


As Bond...James Bond suggested, I think it was Trashcanman.
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Last week Drewm777 (a TBM poster) got suspended for saying something insensitive about how a church court should be held for somebody else (another poster If I recall correctly).

Did anybody see this? The next day, Drewm's wife registered and started a protest thread. No, a poll it was, asking everybody if they thought the MADB mods exercise unrighteous dominion over other members. She sounded about as PO'ed as Nephi got when the mods wouldn't close his account. Some people are way too wrapped up in this.
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Post by _LifeOnaPlate »

The Dude wrote:Last week Drewm777 (a TBM poster) got suspended for saying something insensitive about how a church court should be held for somebody else (another poster If I recall correctly).

Did anybody see this? The next day, Drewm's wife registered and started a protest thread. No, a poll it was, asking everybody if they thought the MADB mods exercise unrighteous dominion over other members. She sounded about as PO'ed as Nephi got when the mods wouldn't close his account. Some people are way too wrapped up in this.


It was kinda sad.
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Re: When Was the Last MA&D Banning?

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Dr. Shades wrote:
Mister Scratch wrote:Perhaps it's just me, but I seem to have noticed quite a significant "cut back" in the number of warnings, admonitions, and bannings on the aptly named MADboard. Is this indicative of a kind of "panic mode" over there, I.e., a fear that the board, sans critics, is drifting ever-closer towards irrelevance?


I personally don't think so. I think it's just symptomatic of the fact that they've finally gotten the board they always wanted.


Which is what? A forum virtually devoid of hot-button critics? What a pity... One interesting new feature I've observed is MAD as a kind of "welfare program" for amateur Mopologists, such as Coggins7. Coggins, as we all know, cannot hack it in debate, and in fact sucks harder than the latest model of Hoover in terms of LDS apologetics. Thus, MAD is useful as a kind of "hand out service" whenever he finds himself at a dead end.
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In his latest request for a handout they don't seem to have been very "useful" at all, except in generating argumenta ad homina.
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Post by _LifeOnaPlate »

CaliforniaKid wrote:In his latest request for a handout they don't seem to have been very "useful" at all, except in generating argumenta ad homina.
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Post by _Mister Scratch »

CaliforniaKid wrote:In his latest request for a handout they don't seem to have been very "useful" at all, except in generating argumenta ad homina.


So, then, perhaps it's more accurate to say that MAD exists as a kind of phony bastion for reassurance? Sure, it will never provide any useful support, but, hey---at least you know that it's there!
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Post by _karl61 »

My ban was around the middle of august 2007. I knowI just started posting here . I gave a little LDS history lesson in as a response on MAD and then WAM - I was gone...they accused me of "bashing".
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Post by _karl61 »

it's kind of like russia in the 1920's and 30's over there - pretty soon they are informing on their neighbors and then WAM - they are arresting (BANNING) people for no reason at all.
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