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Oh my! Doomthumb banned?!

As long as it's not for the content of his blog... I don't have anything to say about it, as the details allude me. Hopefully it will not be a permanent sentence.

Now where is this petition thread? I must sign it!

I would sign it.

Anvildude wrote:Doomthumbs shall live forever! Let us never let this thread die!

Quick, someone post some Tyranid Pwnography so the Mods can't lock the thread...

I just finished my testicular Snikrot conversion paintjob, brace for knackers later today.

Yes - someone needs to "fill his gap" as it were...

I never knew the man personally but from what i have witnessed I know him to be a genius , when i first saw his phallic hive mind i knew that instant he was a man that stood for the rarest of things ... a true visionary of our times .
Wish thee well Doomthumbs on thy great sabbatical.

lets raise our Kraken Phallus to the maestro...

"Doomthumbs" a man for whom innuendo is just not enough

Here! here!

In a hobby where creativeness is set up to thrive, Doomthumbs is one of the most original and visionary hobbyists out there, really going out of his way to show us what could be done with the hobby if you really wanted to.

All hail, all hail.

All speed to his next update.

The e-petition is ready
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/396874.page

The petition was locked, so sorry, no Doomthumbs, unless he was just suspended.

Why was he using/posting with other people's accounts?

I think he was round his mates house, his mate had dakka up on his computer and he did the stupid thing of not logging in under his own name to save time... or thats what i have gathered. Don't know if it's true

Hmm... well that sucks I liked reading this blog... much more so than all those serious business threads out there.

Heh, shame the mods cant/wont even explain what happened :(

Still appreciated, this thread lifted me up above a very bad day.

Thanks for all the laughter, DT, hopefully you'll be back some day.

mullet_steve wrote:I think he was round his mates house, his mate had dakka up on his computer and he did the stupid thing of not logging in under his own name to save time... or thats what i have gathered. Don't know if it's true

If that's the case I'm sure it's only a suspension. As Reds8n said on the other thread it's pretty unusual for someone to get banned permanently, especially for something so innocuous.

Yeah, just because someone is banned doesn't always mean they remove their profile. I still have GWAR! on my friends list, after all. I do hope it's just a suspension, though.

EDIT: Having read reds8n's reply before locking the petition thread, I don't have a lot of hope.

SO basically he's gone for good, killed off dakkadakka?

that really sucks

If someone made a banner thing that said "BRING DOOMTHUMBS BACK" would you out it in your signature? I would.

The impression I got from the mod statement wasn't that he'd crossed a 'temp suspension' line but that he'd been judged to have crossed another more serious line we haven't heard about.

To tide us over until DT or a sockpuppet returns, here's my Snikrot's scrotum. No, it's not an innocent toxin gland, it's a testicular sac. Even though neither Orks nor Genestealers produce taddies.

Well, it looks like (apart from checking back every so often to see if he's really still gone) I'm done checking dakka.
This thread provided endless amounts of creative energy and just flat out cool stuff.
Had no idea what a non-newtonian fluid was before this thread, specifically the boombox fex.
Love the organically painted genestealer and am considering using that paint job on my Nurgle marines. It's just too appropriately cool not to.
So, later folks...

I ride for Doomthumbs!

We should all add "I ride for doomthumbs!" in our sigs to get him back!

I'm in, RIDE FOR DOOMTHUMBS!!!!!

I'm tellin you guys, a graphic in our sigs would get the message across better Someone make one!

If someone makes a graphic, posts it here, then I will put it in my sig. God knows my current sig pic is overdue for a replacement anyways.

I ride for doomthumbs. Heed not the annouying one nor heed the famous. Heed those that push the wall. Doomthumbs pushed on the wall till it feel right on him. Now we dig him out, and walk out of the wall.
Begin the spamm my fellow mates. Make the mods wish they never messed with doomthumbs. Swarm more then a tryanid hive fleet, a ork waghh. have more fury then a blood angel more brute force then a terminator. Show them your fire. And burn them alive!

Lt. Coldfire wrote:If someone makes a graphic, posts it here, then I will put it in my sig. God knows my current sig pic is overdue for a replacement anyways.

I would do it but I'm at work right now :(

cormadepanda wrote:Begin the spamm my fellow mates. Make the mods wish they never messed with doomthumbs.

This kind of talk will get this thread locked, and possibly get folks in trouble. I'm all for throwing a graphic in a signature to remember a fallen brother, but it's still the mods' sandbox. We just get to play in it.

Jimsolo wrote:

This kind of talk will get this thread locked, and possibly get folks in trouble.

QFT

Lt. Coldfire wrote:If someone makes a graphic, posts it here, then I will put it in my sig. God knows my current sig pic is overdue for a replacement anyways.

I'm on this, folks.

Hatticus wrote:

Jimsolo wrote:

This kind of talk will get this thread locked, and possibly get folks in trouble.

QFT

Abso-fraggin-lutley. I was all for the "get Doomthumbs back" petition and any show of solidarity for a fallen brother but spam the mods inbox sounds like an idea made of fail and banned......

If the mods have banned him for life then they did so only after discussion and the reason must have been a good one.

so lets celebrate the good stuff Doomthumbs did with a sig piccy and remember the good (and horribly wrong) stuff he did that brought a little giggle to our days even if that giggle was followed by an EWWWWW!

mullet_steve wrote:If the mods have banned him for life then they did so only after discussion and the reason must have been a good one.

My only issue is how do we know it was a good reason? I'm fairly trusting of our mods and their judgement, but it seems like banning someone without at least saying what line they crossed would be like a judge holding a trial closed to the public (Okay, I guess) and sentencing the accussed without ever stating their crime. At least in actual closed court cases the public knows what the defendant stands accussed of, instead of wild guessing.

I'm not saying I want (or need) a blow-by-blow account of their transgressions, or the mod's decision-making process and individual reasoning for the ban, but at the very least I'd like to know why my favorite P&M blogger got shut down? If we then try to impose our own judgements of whether the ban was fair/unfair after hearing the issue, by all means shut us down ASAP, but at least knowing why he was banned would halt a lot of the eventual rumor-mongering in it's tracks.

Heck, non-transparent (To the DakkaDakka public) banning could quickly devolve into banning anyone who even slightly disagrees with a mod (Even politely) or a mod's friends if you were to eventually accidentally promote an unscrupulous mod. I'm not saying stop banning or make it a public decision. I'd just say a public record (Perhaps a locked General Discussion Sticky thread saying "User X was banned/suspended on X date for XYZ" would work). Just my $0.02...

TL;DR: I wanna know why Doombthumbs was banned, and I'll base my riding-for off of that. ..

darkPrince010 wrote:

mullet_steve wrote:If the mods have banned him for life then they did so only after discussion and the reason must have been a good one.

My only issue is how do we know it was a good reason? I'm fairly trusting of our mods and their judgement, but it seems like banning someone without at least saying what line they crossed would be like a judge holding a trial closed to the public (Okay, I guess) and sentencing the accussed without ever stating their crime. At least in actual closed court cases the public knows what the defendant stands accussed of, instead of wild guessing.

I'm not saying I want (or need) a blow-by-blow account of their transgressions, or the mod's decision-making process and individual reasoning for the ban, but at the very least I'd like to know why my favorite P&M blogger got shut down? If we then try to impose our own judgements of whether the ban was fair/unfair after hearing the issue, by all means shut us down ASAP, but at least knowing why he was banned would halt a lot of the eventual rumor-mongering in it's tracks.

Heck, non-transparent (To the DakkaDakka public) banning could quickly devolve into banning anyone who even slightly disagrees with a mod (Even politely) or a mod's friends if you were to eventually accidentally promote an unscrupulous mod. I'm not saying stop banning or make it a public decision. I'd just say a public record (Perhaps a locked General Discussion Sticky thread saying "User X was banned/suspended on X date for XYZ" would work). Just my $0.02...

TL;DR: I wanna know why Doombthumbs was banned, and I'll base my riding-for off of that. ..

Right now, the only picture we have is what Doomthumbs has said about the situation elsewhere on the internet.

I'll add to this an observation that I used to be part of another special interest forum (unrelated to wargaming) that became notorious amongst that community for having mods with hair-trigger banhammers accountable only to the site owner, not to the community in any way. I was amongst the forum users who felt that whilst the site owner obviously had rights and liabilities as the person legally responsible for the paperwork, there was not enough engagement with the user base to feel that forum membership was desirable - and took our contributions (in terms of content and funds) elsewhere.

I really want to remain part of , and have been considering DCM. I have to have strong confidence in a site's organisation to make such a step, and issues such as a fair suspension procedure are a part of that.

Thank you so much Lindsay!

I'd just like to add that I registered here because of this very thread (so blame Doomthumbs for me being here) and I believe my first post ever was in this thread as well.