Yes. He'll be back in a few days

He's been nothing short of a freaking Troll for the past week or so by picking and perpetuating super annoying eFights with other Trolls.


He posted a thread advertising an item he wanted to sell, admitting that he knew it was a CLEAR violation of the Forum Rules but didn't care. Just sort of an "in your face" to the Mods and Forum in general.

At some point he seems to have just sort of decided that the rules don't apply to him anymore. Really reminded me why I put the Cat on Ignore several months ago. He must be mildly bi-polar because he gets into these phases where he can't seem to help himself from Trolling and testing the Mods. He'll get on some silly moral high-ground from which refuses to retreat.

This time he really just decided that he was going to blatantly piss on the rules.

It was this:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/24...acards-988509/

Reposted in B&M after it had been locked in Home Poker with the statement that he knew he was breaking rules but was doing it anyway.

I find it odd that no one has commented on crazynip's reply. Apparently Im not the only one who feels the Mod currently on vacation is a pain in the arse and over-moderates B&M. All +1 and tipping threads aside...



Would like to hear from others who have been subjected to his nitty moderation. Certain we're not the only ones who feel this way.

Guessing no one has the balls to say anything.

I also PM'ed him about some infraction he gave me once, did not even use profanity in the PM and he did like 3 or 4 consecutive 24 hour bans on me.

You have received a warning at Two Plus Two Poker Forums.

Reason:
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B&M Forum guideline 1: No-content posting.

I am guessing this is one of those +1 things



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02-26-2011, 05:01 PM
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Re: You have received a warning at Two Plus Two Poker Forums
24-hr ban for abusive posting.

The the next day: One-day ban for abusive PMs. For the same PM.

Because it takes such Balls to Bitch about a Mod on an On-Line Poker Forum.

Zappa apparently has a bug up his butt about Rapini.

I mean this is the guy who wanted people BANNED for using the word "******ed". There's some serious Irony in there someplace Alanis.

Seriously.

I cannot for the life of me imagine what this place would be like without Mods. We've seen just a small sample the past several weeks and it ain't pretty.

Bobo, among others, has been doing some basic moderation in the forums - but allowing most of the other conversation to continue as an "experiment" in moderation here while Rapini is away.

Are you sure this is right?

His current set of placards was posted in HP also, but appears to be in a nice, open, unlocked post currently in Marketplace.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...cards-1029189/

He might have earned himself a vacation, as I don't see him making what are regular requests for self-bans to give himself a few days off, but his placards are still up for sale...

Oh well.

Sounds about right.

Yes.

Thread is gone now - I haven't been here much since Thursday.

For someone who so proudly ignores me, Pot Odds sure does pay a lot of attention to what I do. Anyway, thanks for the plugs guys!

I think Rapini is generally pretty good, tho' I do feel that if enough people are frustrated with the moderation, then it's too much of the wrong moderation. Not all bad, just maybe needs a little tweaking. We should all hopefully be able to smile and relax and not take things too seriously, right? We are here for love of a game, after all.

Come back soon Rapini!
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27...d-you-1031368/
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27...-rama-1031143/
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27...reads-1031421/

I love how this guy responds to crazynip but makes his response about me.

Your point makes no sense and no one has ever said that the forum should not be moderated. It just shouldn't be moderated by someone like Rapini.

Rapini is not a quality mod.

So sorry I'm not a quality poster.

OMG the horror!!



The very axis of the B&M forum has been tipped because of these terrible threads. How can we ever live through this??

A purpose of this thread is to define what a quality mod is.

So, define it.

I think that the Foxwoods thread is in danger of being completely de-railed. Granted, I did not believe a lot of Rapini's moderations were correct or fair, but the current state of the thread is ridiculous. Most of the recent posts have no relevance of content whatsoever and do not pertain to Foxwoods, its poker room, or its community. It is just a bunch of random commentary that should likely belong in BBV4L.

I mean, personal random chatter is what PMs were designed for, right?

I agree. This is the same no-content personal chat which was finally knocked off of the Mohegan Sun thread.

I've asked him for something more useful than "Rapini sucks", but apparently that's all he's capable of contributing.

I'll note that virtually all of the "Stars," "FTP," and Chat threads in the strat forums are similar in tone. Occasionally there will be some useful information directly related about the site, but most of the time it is a group of posters randomly chatting. In the higher strat forums, such threads are just about the only activity those forums have.

It takes fairly heavy modding to prevent that from happening.

It was mostly that troll who couldn't talk like an adult who was killing the thread. Even if we got our chat subforum, I would've reported his posts. Bobo deleted his posts in his recent cleanup, and all is well. Thanks Bobo!

I just had a first, because I've never found so much to report so fast. Seems that there is a 60 second delay requirement between reports.

A shame, really, because it slows the reporting down. Oh, well....

Can't wait for Rapini to come back!!

Lee

I'll try to type slower so you can report all of my posts without hitting the one minute limit.

LOL! It's not yours that I'm reporting, Pot Odds RAC.

Lee

So, is the plan to let the threads run wild so we will welcome back Rapini?

There is a difference between asking that every lighthearted post not earn an infraction (how does 9in survive?) and asking for no moderating.

Nope. From the ATF thread about this:

I'm really only on the mod list to look after room rep issues. However, in the last couple of weeks I have become a little involved when it seemed like it was really needed - cleaned up the Foxwoods thread, locked some tipping threads, but that's about it. I just really don't have the time for diving right in to a busy forum and getting involved enough to feel confident about making close calls or worrying about a little NC stuff here and there. If I see a lot of post reports about something, or any about stuff that needs to be dealt with right away (spam, serious trolling/abusive posting, etc.), I'll get in there. But if it's not critical, I'm probably letting it go.

So no, this isn't something designed to make Rapini haters change their mind, and I really doubt it would anyway. But if it does open people's eyes to what this forum looks like with a lot more LC stuff let go, for better or worse, that could be helpful to furthering this conversation about modding.

THIS is my point exactly.