this is not in reaction to any perticular comment or person. I have been thinking about this for a little bit now.

wherever you judge necessary. You can explain when you feel like an explanation is merited. I enjoy the quality of the discussion on this site and hope it can stay that way. I trust you.

I think this post is plenty of warning. Anything over the line should be gone with. No explanation needed. But I’m sure the cup administrators being the fine rebels they are, would enjoy letting everyone know what’s up (along with telling us all what an ass that person made of themselves)

I’ve had fairly good luck over at TSK with using official SB Nation warnings before bannings, but your mileage may vary. Trolls don’t come around the general SEC site as much as they to the school-specific sites.

As one of the outsiders here (and hopefully one that has never been considered for banishment), I’d say official warnings work pretty well. I never got an “official” warning over at TSK, but I almost did. All that happened was I got into an argument with Gator fan over the Brandon Spikes eye “gouge”. It wasn’t hurting anybody, except that we had taken over the comments section of a thread. In that case, I felt an “official” warning was a little ridiculous. In fact, it almost made me never go back. But, it also made me chill out, so I guess it’s effective.
For what it’s worth, I would probably pay a buck to post over here. But not monthly.

being fairly new and all.. for instance that douchebag pig penis GonzoHog.. on one hand I’d love to see him banned but on the other hand, I wouldn’t laugh nearly as much around here if he were gone.. he does make for good fodder.

I say warn once, then click. Except, how do you warn the machine gun trolls? I call them machine gun because they come here, fire off 2,3,4,5,6 posts all over the place and then never see them again. What good’s a warning when they’ve already posted 6 times and won’t be back anyway? In that case, just go on and ban.

is a thread like the notre dame “rakes of mallow” to which i subscribe that banned a fanpost that was a very well written article that criticized notre dame’s claim as a top tier football program

ghost knows that i lean towards ND and am a bit biased in that regard, but the article was literally up one day, and the next when i tried to check the comments on it, it was gone

i questioned the admin of the blog about it and he simply said “the article didnt really contribute to any ND discussion and that it was during USC week and that was the last thing he needed”….wtf?

I liked reading stupid stuff other people write. All I want’s an edit button.

so don’t fix it.

Unless you are doing a lot of deleting and banning that we just don’t realize at all, keep doing what you are doing.

I’m not opposed to a little oversight, but please stick to your word and don’t turn this site into a “Our way or the Highway” operation. I know that you addressed this above. I just don’t want to see the Powetron Banhammer start landing like a Brent Schaffer pass; anywhere and everywhere.

I personally enjoy the transient posters. It’s nice to shake things up from time to time, even if it is along the lines of Ole Piss wEEBALS. And say what you will about such posts not sparking conversation, but usually the reply button glows red after one of these visits.

But man, Anthony Dixon is one ugly dude.

even though I am not fond of Ole Miss athletics (from Memphis, went to Bama).

I am a regular reader but post only when I think my comments could be constructive (or clever…I love being thought of as clever).

Above all, RCR is entertaining. If a user detracts from the blog’s overall entertainment value, ban the prick. No need for a comprehensive policy, a probationary period, or anything else. Just keep it entertaining.