I was gone only for a night and this turns into the Lounge...
I do however think lifetime bans for 10 infractions are a bit much. After a year or two a person should be allowed back or allowed to make an appeal to return with a probation period to see if theyve actually improved their attitude. If they have straightened up then what's the harm in letting them rejoin the community?
If you can wrack up 10 infractions you probably can't reform yourself enough to avoid getting into trouble again. Depending on the span and reason for the infractions of course. 10 infractions over several years is unfortunate. 10 infractions in a year, you're just asking for a ban.
The Franklin Richards/Aunt Petunia thing creeps me out. It's not him pretending to be a woman per se, but him willfully decieving people and even stealing pictures from a stranger online and presenting them as himself. It's like everything your parents warned you about AOL chat-rooms in the '90's. I can't believe he wasn't banned for that.
I remember those fear-mongering warnings all too well. Never meet anyone you met on the internet in real life, they could be a serial killer or a rapist or a [insert some other unlikely threat here]!
Of course the same can be said of literally
anyone you meet, in any context, anywhere. I've met several people in real life from the internet and so far I've managed to avoid being serial-murdered, losing kidneys, being raped or converted into some whacky religious cult.
Ant-Manic is banned, not just prob-banned.
Huh. From the little I interacted with him, he didn't seem bad. Not that I talked with him a lot and never about the Ant-Man movie.
I had my problems with him but nothing too severe. Most of the time I ignored any of the more offensive crap he'd say. But I can't say his banning is a surprise either.
The difference he nitpicked the hell out of the movies, and constantly judged others in thread for loving the Bond movies.
I can't stand people like that. I will openly say I'll nitpick a movie for things but I won't harp on it endlessly and I won't judge others for liking it.
He also thought and argued non-stop that the movies should have the same continuity as the books and that the movies were wrong. He just couldn't wrap his head around the fact that books and movies were separate canons and universes.
This I have a problem with too when people complain something (whether it's a book, comic, cartoon or even a movie in another language) is not a direct adaptation of the source material. If it's a direct adaptation then what's the point? I don't agree they should ruin the adaptation by cherry-picking the source material or altering it to the point it is unidentifiable but if it's a direct remake then it will fail. Especially in a book where one person's vision is completely different to another person's.
That ties into people who rip into other people for liking something that they didn't like. Boo-hoo, if you don't like it then say why and move on.
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