[To Theymos] Why was Goat banned?

[Serenata]

I don't think banning according to how many ignores you have...... Possibly a feature that auto-hides posts of users with tons of ignores like an above poster mentioned.

Even better (sorry I missed that being mentioned).

[Maged]

Honestly, this surprises me. Maybe I just haven't read many Goat threads, but, where has he been actively disruptive? Are there deleted posts recently that I'm just not seeing?

I do agree that Goat isn't the greatest person on this forum, but he shouldn't be banned permanently just for that. Not to mention, he's tied up pretty deeply in both the Pirate situation and GLBSE. Has he ever received a warning ban? I know that he's been warned plenty of times, but was he ever banned for a few days?

When you perma-banned Rarity for the same reason, I thought "Ok, Rarity has never really contributed much and I don't see much of a future for him here. I guess perma-ban is acceptable". But I really don't think that is the case here. Theymos, you're really starting to get a little heavy on the banhammer. What happened to the Theymos that we'd beg to have perma-ban someone but would absolutely do nothing more than a few day ban for the first request? Speaking of requests, you didn't mention this ban at all in the Staff forum. When you ban someone fairly high-profile without a request from a staff member, please at least have the courtesy to inform us moderators.

[repentance]

Honestly, this surprises me. Maybe I just haven't read many Goat threads, but, where has he been actively disruptive? Are there deleted posts recently that I'm just not seeing?

Goat was arguing that Nefario shouldn't have been given the scammer tag for the reasons it was given (he thought it should have been given for other reasons).  He did seem to be arguing for the sake of arguing a lot lately, but the forum membership's going to drop dramatically if we start banning everyone who does that occasionally.

I'm not sure how much of his business Goat conducted off-board, but I hope that anyone who's dependent on the records he holds in relation to pirate and GLBSE has another way to communicate with him.

[fishface]

Yeah, I strongly dislike goat but don't support him being banned. Unless he is trying to scam or promote further ponzies, a ban isn't justified IMO.

[OgNasty]

Goat ran a mining company on GLBSE and didn't even have any equipment to mine coins!  I've long suspected that all of his other half dozen GLBSE listings were similar fake businesses setup to put more BTC in his BTCST account.  On top of that, Goat's recent posts have all been suggesting that users sue Theymos and the other GLBSE owners.  

[Monster Tent]

I dont think people should be banned unless they are promoting something illegal or threatening other users somehow. Banning someone because they have an opinion is not cool.

[smoothie]

Goat's signature says "This is how Theymos "resolves" business disputes."

What business disputes? I know Theymos was/is a part owner in GLBSE but what does that have to do with Goat? Is it Goat once again going off the deep end?

I tend to think so...

[underminer]

"     "within"      "    Quotation mark inception.

[smoothie]

"     "within"      "    Quotation mark inception.

Yeah my bad...i was just copy pasting ...

[underminer]

I just found it funny.  Why does everybody care about goat so much?

[AndrewBUD]

I like anyone who posts ridiculous shit that is fun to read

[smoothie]

I like anyone who posts ridiculous shit that is fun to read

You must love me then lol....

[AndrewBUD]

I like anyone who posts ridiculous shit that is fun to read

You must love me then lol....

naww you're annoying J/k

[smoothie]

I like anyone who posts ridiculous shit that is fun to read

You must love me then lol....

naww you're annoying J/k

  Annoyingly Lovable!

[Brunic]

I just found it funny.  Why does everybody care about goat so much?

He's well-known around here, participated a lot in BTC businesses and he was pretty active too. Around 6000 posts I think. His TYGRR business was also pretty big on GLBSE too. I don't know if the link between TYGRR and GLBSE is part of the reason, but I don't really like how this is handled right now. You can't simply ban somebody because you have different business views.

*EDIT*

Ok, it seems he got into a fight with theymos over the GLBSE stuff.

[underminer]

Ok I guess I get it.  I have not seen a whole lot of his posts and what I see paint a fairly meathead picture which made me wonder why anyone cared.

Also I just noticed this:

Posted by: cryptoanarchist
Insert Quote
This forum has gone to shit. I'm outta here.

LOL we tooo crazeh fo' theh anarchists nowah!

[repentance]

Why does everybody care about goat so much?

I don't think most people care about Goat.  What they want to know is whether there's some new, unwritten rule we all need to avoid breaking.

[bitlane]

B) My alt is "theymos".

All I can say is, if the above quote is true...then I am outta here as well.

[smoothie]

B) My alt is "theymos".

All I can say is, if the above quote is true...then I am outta here as well.

Bitlane, I love your signature. Awesome! 

[Ente]

Why does everybody care about goat so much?

I don't think most people care about Goat.  What they want to know is whether there's some new, unwritten rule we all need to avoid breaking.

That's the point.

Ente