We all know you play WoW Loki you don't have to speak in code.

David Freakin Sklansky would be a good gimmick account imo.

... LK have you ever been banned that wasn't requested?

History shrouds all truths.

yup.

+1

And he'll never ever love you.

Surprise, surprise...another moderator with nothing useful to say.

Of course this is just a shake down but it also gives 2+2 lots of free advertising on twitter etc so it's not the dumbest shake down in history.

fyp?

I'm not sure you know what hierarchy is, but one might assume those trusting the judgments of others whom have more complete information than themselves aren't doing so for no reason.

Wat

who will love you for putting in all these free hours of modding instead of doing something useful?

Do you have some kind of decoder ring you can send me?

obv he is a mod so people will love him. it has nothing to do with enjoying posting here and modding as a way to give back to the site.

24 hour temp ban. SHAKE DOWN!

DN clearly has gotten a massive ego from being on the idiot box playing tournament poker.

It probably makes sense in some other language.

Too bad I only know the one.

Someone above got it right, "penny wise, pound foolish"

When I was younger my dad used to say " don't cut off your nose to spite your face", it fits well in this situation.

Thank you for taking the "dumbest ****ing post ever" title from me. A clueless mod -- who'd have thought...

I don't think defending it as the standard line 2+2 would take with any other poster makes it in any way the optimal line to have chosen.

I like to call Daniel Negreanu "Kid Poker" because of his youthful appearance.

24h ?

He deserve a week

Gah, this thread is really starting to confound me. Even posters who usually tend to be on top of things are refusing to take a minute to read and think things through.

That's great to hear, but it sure doesn't sound like it when you repeat the same mistake everyone else is with statements like "banned for posting a link in a thread that was dedicated to posting his links". No, he wasn't, and if you have a different take, you're just plain wrong. But hopefully that's not what your different take is about.

It just aggravates me to no end when people keep repeating this inaccurate and oversimplified summary of what happened. Posters aren't generally allowed to link to their own sites and videos, they certainly aren't allowed to when the first 6+ minutes of the video are an advertisement, and he didn't just post it in that thread anyway.

So just to summarize, for hopefully the last time, he was given a one day ban because:

He started a thread about a business that he is believed to have a financial interest in, and was given a warning. Subsequently, he posted a link to a video from his site in two different threads; the video starts with a 6+ minute promotion of the same site.

Many posters think a one day ban was much too harsh. I get that. But seriously, please stop claiming that he was simply "banned for posting a link in a thread that was dedicated to posting his links".

Fine, that's perfectly reasonable. Like I said before, people will have a variety of opinions on his intent. He broke the rules, but you feel it was unintentional.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion on that. I'm not 100% sure because I wasn't involved at the time it happened, but there's a good chance I would have infracted him rather than temp-banning. That said, I don't think a one day ban was that draconian, especially given he had been warned for something similar two days previous. I notice he didn't mention this in his FCP post. Perhaps he missed it, but that seems odd seeing as he knew the thread was deleted. If he knew about the infraction, how does he think that video link is going to be OK?

Wait, what? So should I call it a permanent ban because he may not choose to come back?

And does he derive no benefit from 2+2? No question it's better to have him here than not, if he's following the rules. I hope he comes back. But it's not like there is no benefit to him either.

I won't speak for other mods, but I've reversed or reduced infractions or bans before when someone has reasoned with me, and I know other mods have as well. It almost never happens from a thread, though, for a couple of reasons. First of all, and this isn't the case every time, but the more reasonable posters are usually the ones who send the PMs. Most of the people who instantly take the "OMG MODS ARE NAZIS" stance are the ones who will start a thread. The second reason, and this one perhaps doesn't reflect as well on mods, is because I think a thread sometimes puts mod(s) in a position where they become reluctant to back down. This could be for a number of reasons - they don't want posters to think they can just whine to have any infraction or ban reversed, or sometimes pride might come into it, because mods are human too.

This is all a bit of a digression from the topic at hand, but I see this kind of thing posted sometimes in ATF, so I wanted to address it. And I understand completely where this idea comes from, that mods never change their minds, because we don't see it that often in threads.

LOL. Unless I've misunderstood some of the posts, you've included two posts that were making fun of all the DN supporters as well as one from someone who hadn't bothered reading the whole thread. But thanks for your contribution.

Sure. I can't say for certain that it wasn't optimal, but it's certainly a possibilty.

First sentence is an opinion stated as fact with no links to any of DN's posts to support your contention, in the face of plenty of contrary opinions in this very thread and the other DN NVG threads.

Second sentence is a grammatical and misspelling mess, where you take a condescending attitude that posters that don't agree with you are a "suggestion" that it/he/she is "out to lunch".

It really is a mystery why so many ATF threads are devoted to your actions as a mod.

With that I have nothing to "ad", other than asking whether it was Kentucky or Tennessee Bourbon you were enjoying tonight.

Throwing a tantrum and not posting here any more over a 1 day ban would only add fuel to the rumors that DN is not very masculine.

He was man enough for Evelyn Ng.

I hope DN will return. He adds to this forum.