Estoppel Suspensions

[AB Editor]

We've just suspended 13 members who decided to post nonsense in a thread in Law.

I'm making this post as it will hopefully cut down on the number of indignant emails we get... It's a bit of a special case as it's a large number of members and many of them are long serving and much liked members.

I shouldn't have to say this - but there's only one place for nonsense, and that's Chatterbank.

In Law heads roll when you muck about.

But you know that already...

Here is the thread:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Law/Question1307583.html

My comment is at the end here, where I closed the question:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Law/Question1307583-31.html

Users were suspended for passing judgement, spamming nonsense, being rude, counting the number of answers in hope of getting to whateverhundred, posting irrelevant answers, encouraging irrelevant answers, and generally taking the piss.

Some of these users also gave good answers and then went of the rails. It makes it a little sadder than restraint couldn't have been shown on their part.

I know it's easy to get swept up in a bit of playground bullying.

But they weren't in a playground.

I know sometimes those asking questions can be frustrating, but the lack of empathy and compassion was stunning. If you don't like something, please just avoid posting on it... I have no idea why this isn't obvious.

Apologies to the rest of you - you're probably as bored of this kind of behaviour as I am, and would prefer to not read any more about it.

All the best,

Ab Editor.

PS. I don't care if it's "unfair" in any way. Thanks.

[netibiza]

No Ed I was not joking, I just didn't quite understand the whole thing, so as the thread went on and on, there must have been a straight answer somewhere. It's just that something similar happened over here a while ago, and they were paid off quite a lot when the original house was sold by the heirs. I was just as confused with that too.

[jno]

Alex Higham, for reasons I don't understand at all, the OP Tiger changed name halfway through the thread and continued posting under the new one (which was the same as the old one but without the 1 on the end, I think).

[AB Editor]

Jno - they forgot their password. Likely they moved between computers/input devices

[Peter Pedant]

jno - she had forgotten her password
and so the second half didnt get high-lighted in cerise.

that was around answer 250 - and as might be expected, repeated a lot of the same questions -in case the answers were different I suppose.
Even Barmaid (kiss kiss BM) wondered why she was asking us considering she had hired a lawyer

[jno]

ah, I see, thanks all. Presumably the Ed rendered her original name inactive?

Sometimes people with lawyers ask questions here, as do people with doctors, presumably because they're not sure they understand what they've been told. Doctors and lawyers and business executives, in their little boxes, do tend to be jargon-rich.

[NoMercy]

Crikey, what a saga.

[AB Editor]

"ah, I see, thanks all. Presumably the Ed rendered her original name inactive?"

She deactivated it herself and then signed up again.

I don't know why some people do the things they do :)

[AB Editor]

Quite right NoM.

[Peter Pedant]

jno - a free second opinion - even as a POW (English) he was asked to examine and treat German children. But 'estoppel' didnt seem to want a second opinion, after all she got 600 ! of them and was still asking for more....

[Alex_Higham]

Thanks jno for having explained to me that Tiger was in effect a Leopard who was capable of changing spots.

However, I am still at a loss to understand the Ed's statement......" Carrust. I didn't ban them. I suspended them."

Does this mean that they will be allowed to return to AB ? I ask the question because a friend of mine was suspended before last Christmas and is still hoping to return to the fold.

[Saki]

Are you sure it was a suspension and not a hanging? ;-)

[AB Editor]

I might as well tidy up some other users who I was kindly turning a blind eye to.

Some suspensions "Alex" are permanent.

These estoppel ones aren't.

[jno]

the usual suspension is for a week or so, as far as I know. If your friend has somehow slipped under the parole board's radar he might be better starting up again under a new name and not repeating whatever it was got him suspended the first time.

[jno]

oh, ignore my post then, Alex; I think permanent suspensions are so that their posts will remain even if they don't.

[AB Editor]

That post was correct Jno, up until the point that "Alex" decided to start nudging again :)

[shoota]

Eebyheckerslikestoppall this nonsense.

[B00]

Nope, im not curious why Ed put "'s round Alex's name, nope, nu huh, no I'm not!

[Saki]

But you are psychic B00!

[B00]

I beg ya puddin' saki?

[jno]

it's unrewarding to go too deep into matters of punctuation, B00 (unless you're Lynne Truss).