A vote to determine if a member should be banned?

[Road Runner]

Maybe we should have regular votes on certain despised members (like me) where a simple majority of the forumites could ban a member from participation.

It would greatly simplify and speed up the current informal practice of trying to drive members away by shunning.  I would vote for this.  

[Dottleshead ★]

But that's dogfooding!  There'd be nobody left but SWC.

[Road Runner]

1 minute ago, Dottie said:

But that's dogfooding!  There'd be nobody left but SWC.

Survivor - Cafe Edition!   

[12string]

39 minutes ago, Dottie said:

But that's dogfooding!  There'd be nobody left but SWC.

remember - we're not supposed to reply to anything Road Runner posts!

[bikeman564™]

gonna turn this place into survivor ?

[jsharr ★]

I get first dibs on being banned.  If not I may quit and take parodybot with me

[donkpow]

Let's ban this guy. He irritates me. 

[Dottleshead ★]

6 minutes ago, 12string said:

remember - we're not supposed to reply to anything Road Runner posts!

Porque, amigo?

[Road Runner]

15 minutes ago, 12string said:

remember - we're not supposed to reply to anything Road Runner posts!

Aha!  I tricked you!    

[Page Turner]

...will there be popcorn during the voting ?

[jsharr ★]

45 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said:

gonna turn this place into survivor ?

Better than Naked and Afraid, like RFW in SW's basement.

[maddmaxx ★]

JHC.

Stop whining.

[Zephyr]

I would make a comment (with a picture) about what happens when you put something (or someone) to a vote, but I do not want to be responsible for this getting moved to P&R.

"Make SW Forum Great Again"   We should get hats.

[maddmaxx ★]

2 minutes ago, Angelic Zephyr said:

I would make a comment (with a picture) about what happens when you put something (or someone) to a vote, but I do not want to be responsible for this getting moved to P&R.

"Make SW Forum Great Again"   We should get hats.

Great.  And here I thought this place was already in the middle of a downer.

[jsharr ★]

4 minutes ago, Angelic Zephyr said:

I would make a comment (with a picture) about what happens when you put something (or someone) to a vote, but I do not want to be responsible for this getting moved to P&R.

"Make SW Forum Great Again"   We should get hats.

[Dottleshead ★]

13 minutes ago, Angelic Zephyr said:

I would make a comment (with a picture) about what happens when you put something (or someone) to a vote, but I do not want to be responsible for this getting moved to P&R.

"Make SW Forum Great Again"   We should get hats.

You mean make China great again, don't you?

[parodybot]

9 minutes ago, Dottie said:

You mean make China great again, don't you?

Sure

[MickinMD ★]

A vote by the membership would create a membership divided against itself even if the vote was done in secret. I think either a small, perhaps secret names, advisory committee appointed by Square Wheels is the only group way of doing it and having the site's owner do it alone has been workable so far: I'd prefer to keep it that way.

[donkpow]

13 minutes ago, Dottie said:

You mean make China great again, don't you?

[Zephyr]

I agree, SW is the man.  HE alone should choose.  Unless of course he is going to ban me, at which point we need to rally the masses for a huge protest. Huge.  Probably the biggest protest in the history of protests.

 

Geez, I did it again.  What the hell is the matter with me today.  

[Dottleshead ★]

2 minutes ago, MickinMD said:

A vote by the membership would create a membership divided against itself even if the vote was done in secret. I think either a small, perhaps secret names, advisory committee appointed by Square Wheels is the only group way of doing it and having the site's owner do it alone has been workable so far: I'd prefer to keep it that way.

 

Pfffft.  Small potatoes!!  Nothing short of public executions.  Popcorn and beer served.

[Dottleshead ★]

2 minutes ago, Angelic Zephyr said:

I agree, SW is the man.  HE alone should choose.  Unless of course he is going to ban me, at which point we need to rally the masses for a huge protest. Huge.  Probably the biggest protest in the history of protests.

 

Geez, I did it again.  What the hell is the matter with me today.  

Could it be the dead, drowned corpses you run across?

[donkpow]

 

[maddmaxx ★]

3 minutes ago, Dottie said:

 

Pfffft.  Small potatoes!!  Nothing short of public executions.  Popcorn and beer served.

A popular vote is only appreciated by people who make a meal of stirring up trouble.  There are a series of threads here today that are most destructive in nature.  IMO everyone should go take a ride on a bike.

[Dottleshead ★]

1 minute ago, maddmaxx said:

A popular vote is only appreciated by people who make a meal of stirring up trouble.  There are a series of threads here today that are most destructive in nature.  IMO everyone should go take a ride on a bike.

Ok, Max, I know your wearing your mod pants now -- but clearly you were able to determine that my comment above was 'facetious' in nature? 

I like your idea of everyone going for a bike ride.  Sound advice for anything really.

[Page Turner]

1 hour ago, Angelic Zephyr said:

I would make a comment (with a picture) about what happens when you put something (or someone) to a vote, but I do not want to be responsible for this getting moved to P&R.

"Make SW Forum Great Again"   We should get hats.

...both our avatars are already wearing hats. Just sayin'. (My avatar's hat is more stylish, BTW)

[Page Turner]

40 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

  There are a series of threads here today that are most destructive in nature.  IMO everyone should go take a ride on a bike.

...will there be popcorn during the bike ride ? 

[Page Turner]

46 minutes ago, Dottie said:

 

 Nothing short of public executions.  Popcorn and beer served.

...if that's what it takes to get popcorn, I reluctantly agree.  It seems excessive for something as simple to make as popcorn.

[maddmaxx ★]

7 minutes ago, Page Turner said:

...if that's what it takes to get popcorn, I reluctantly agree.  It seems excessive for something as simple to make as popcorn.

I'm too busy eating homemade pepper and onion pizza to hold an execution right now.

[Longjohn ★]

I have a kayaking group and never had to ban anyone until this morning. Overnight while I was sleeping someone posted some homemade porn and when they were not immediately banned and deleted several others joined in. I deleted all of their posts and banned them all, then I went back and changed the way people could join the group. I seriously considered just deleting the whole group. I have to hand it to Square wheels, he’s been doing this for a long time, it’s a thankless job.

[Page Turner]

...when I first went on the internet, I just naturally assumed this was all because it was mostly men.

 

Then, on the other bicycle forum that must not be named, one of my contacts there, a lesbian, referred me to her knitting and needlework forum for some classic examples of blowups and flame wars.

She eventually decided I was too old and creepy to continue correspondence.

 

[Wilbur ★]

You are all banned and I am selling my shares in this dump to the lowest bidder. 

[Dottleshead ★]

3 minutes ago, Page Turner said:

She eventually decided I was too old and creepy to continue correspondence.

There are those that can see right through us.

[Further]

This is sounding like that old story "The Lottery"

[Dottleshead ★]

2 minutes ago, Further said:

This is sounding like that old story "The Lottery"

For those of us to young to recall, would you be kind enough to share it with us?

[Longjohn ★]

9 minutes ago, Page Turner said:

She eventually decided I was too old and creepy to continue correspondence.

 

My wife must like old scary men. When an old creepy guy was persuing her she looked for the biggest, scariest looking guy she could find and stuck to him like glue. It kept the creepy guy away but she has been stuck with me for over 42 years.

[Further]

http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/the-lottery/summary/

3 minutes ago, Dottie said:

For those of us to young to recall, would you be kind enough to share it with us?

 

[Dottleshead ★]

6 minutes ago, Further said:

http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/the-lottery/summary/

 

That's some effed up chit.  I highly approve!

[Kzoo]

Just now, Dottie said:

That's some effed up chit.  I highly approve!..... Said Dottie with a stone in his pocket.

 

[Dottleshead ★]

oh I prefer not to throw stones.  I like to absorb them.

[smudge ★]

3 hours ago, Page Turner said:

...when I first went on the internet, I just naturally assumed this was all because it was mostly men.

 

Then, on the other bicycle forum that must not be named, one of my contacts there, a lesbian, referred me to her knitting and needlework forum for some classic examples of blowups and flame wars.

She eventually decided I was too old and creepy to continue correspondence.

 

There was a lesbian?? Who was it?

[Page Turner]

...it was four or six years ago.  I forget her username over there, but she was pretty out about it. You'd know if you talked very much with her.

Lived up there in eastern Oregon or eastern Washington in one of the college towns and had an IGH bicycle that was always giving her trouble with the hub.

 

Are you "asking for a friend" ?

[Slow_Guy_On_Bike]

11 hours ago, Longjohn said:

 I have to hand it to Square wheels, he’s been doing this for a long time, it’s a thankless job.

Thank you SW!!

?‍♂️

[Longjohn ★]

7 hours ago, smudge said:

There was a lesbian?? Who was it?

That one that drove the Lesburu.

[Square Wheels]

I think toy be fair, I will ban everyone.  No bias this way.  It starts on Tuesday.

[Dottleshead ★]

2 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

I think toy be fair, I will ban everyone.  No bias this way.  It starts on Tuesday.

This makes sense.  Don't forget to ban yourself on the way out.  It is exemplary to lead by example.

[Longjohn ★]

I’ve never known toys to be fair.

[Page Turner]