This is a debating forum not a bulletin board and so it is with regrets that I’m going to give some time out to Solve et coagula who had been warned about filling the forum with posts, many of which are nothing more than links. Ten days time out
yeah looking at the posts he's got around 99 % of them it is muscling out anyone else any topics that people are bringing forward are being swamped off the 1st page which means no one can actually discuss anything i've noticed that there aren't many hits on the posts anyway we're being swamped by links its a good way of killing the politics forum.
Seems stupid to me. If what he posts is not contributing to the flow of conversation, will it not just fade away? If people are responding to what he is posting and discussing it then it seems relevant and worthwhile, if it is just links and spam/trolling then people will ignore it. Seems to me that your recent "time outs" that you are handing to members is just a way for you to assert what little authority you have and don't really contribute to weeding out blatent spamming or trolling. If someone is trolling: "Dems Suck cause i say do hippy tree lover". Or spamming: "look at this site, look at this site, look at this site." I could understand, ban their ass if you want. But, instead you are banning members because they are not contributing enough in your opinion to the forums. And i was under the impression that these were message boards,not debate forums, no different than Random Thoughts, Parenting or personal forums, just with a different focus (politics). That's why i thought it was retarded when you gave rat a "time out" because he chose to stop responding to you. If they aren't blatently violating Forum Guidlines... I mean, i don't see any sticky threads or Politics forums specific guidlines that state: this is a Debating forum (unlike all the other forums), if you are not actively debating you will be temporarily suspended. And what's the deal with telling everyone else that he's been suspended? Public shame or something. You couldn't have PM'd about the fact that he can't post in politics forum for a while? You had to start a thread (titled under his handle) inform him that he can't post, as if he wouldn't realize that when he trys to post...
