User bob_brinkman has been removed for directly attacking others in private messages.
As a reminder, PMs are still a part of the BBS and still subject to our guidelines. Many people also consider PMs to be more intimate an environment, and harassment within them far more personal. As a result, we take such harassment seriously. Do not do this, and do flag others should they do this to you.
Thanks.
Brinkmanship is always risky.
User randomdude has been given a brief timeout for posting offtopic replies repeatedly in posts then attempting to repost them when they are removed.
If you want to have a meta-discussion about something, start your own topic, or use one of the existing meta topics. Don’t derail other topics to do so.
User quasimodo has been given a timeout for posting incendiary responses in political topics. Expressing opinions is one thing, but expressing them in ways carefully crafted to derail conversations becomes an obvious tactic upon review of their posting history. Perhaps post-election-season they will return with a more constructive demeanour.
User quori anonymized at user request.
User rudiv anonymized at user request.
User Edgar_Carpenter has been asked not to return after suggesting that sterilizing 85% of the planet / eugenics was the path to nirvana.
Good riddance.
I’ve seen posts pop up just as I was finishing off a thread, or even seen the words change out from under me if someone edited their post.
Presumably the intended meaning was something less wholesome than “cleaning them all very thoroughly”?
User Desultory Polemic asked not to return after taking a verbal dump all over women (and mongooses) in about the most misogynistic manner possible.
Mongeese? 
Mongi?
We need a new thread…
I vote “mongeese” for whatever that’s worth! (Exactly nothing, but I’m cute!)
Certainly not Mongeeses.
It’s hilarious how, out of all that melee, the one constant is that we are still not sure of the correct plural tense of ‘mongoose.’
Man, I fluv this site…
Oh hell no! A double plural? What are you trying to do, woman?! Oh, the humanity!
so has the oed.
Inflections: Plural mongooses , ( irregular ) mongeese , ( irregular ) mongoose , ( irregular ) mongooze .
first mention is from 1673
1673 G. Aungier Let. 29 Sept. in C. Fawcett Eng. Factories in India (1936) I. 83 [My house is] miserably afflicted with rats so great that a mongoose or our cats will not meddle with them.
