In the grand tradition of The Spreadsheet comes The Great De-Identified List of Ban-Reasons on bbs.boingboing.net, an anonymized list of reasons people have had Maxwell’s silver ban-hammer bonk them on the head.
Contact me if you feel the overwhelming need to contribute.
Seriously, if you want edit rights, please let me know. I don’t want this to be a one-man-band.
If the profile is updated, I’ll update the document.
You’re next pal!
Well, I don’t have those kind of powers, just as well…
I don’t know of others who have been banned. If you do, shoot them to me, or ask to be an editor (via email, since I have to grant edit access via email).
By using the wrong pronouns, or otherwise refuting somebody’s professed gender for reasons of personal bias.
I was accused of this once when referring to some celebrity as “it”. And no, they were not transsexual. I just don’t assume that people have a gender, race, citizenship, etc unless they tell me they do. So, by default, I tend to not used gendered pronouns. In English, one can get away with “they”, but “it” really bothers some people. When this bothers people is, surprisingly, when in reference to some celebrity or other public figure where people assume they are of a certain gender, despite nobody ever having heard them say that they identify with it. So “everybody knows they are” based upon nothing.