Apply the Ban Hammer
 

You must ban or not ban the user above you for some reason or other such as:

1. Their avatar

2. Their post

3. Their lack of prime finding ability

Please give a good/creative reason.

I will start:

I ban the person above me for not existing.

[COLOR="White"]Idea stolen from elsewheres on the interwebs.[/COLOR]

I don't ban the person above me by reason of a cool avatar. :cool:

[LEFT][SIZE=3]BUT....... [/SIZE][SIZE=6]([/SIZE]:drama:[SIZE=6])[/SIZE][/LEFT]
I [U][B]do[/B][/U] ban the person above me because the post proves dickishness, to which the poster has previously admitted. :ban:

I [B]don't[/B] ban the person above me because he starts threads in the soap box which I can actually understand. If he got himself banned it would all be over my head there.

This game isn't as funny if a mod plays it.

I ban the guy above for being a supermod!

(why can't we ban the guy below too?:shock:)

I ban the guy below if he bans me... :razz:

[QUOTE=jasonp;361353]This game isn't as funny if a mod plays it.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. They never play by the OP's rules, do they?:hello:

The guy below LaurV is [B]not[/B] banning him. I don't ban him because I want someone else to say whether I'm banned or not.

Okay, you're banned for your infuriatingly even temper. You often make the supermods look bad.

You are banned for looking bad.

I ban you all for a lack of puns in your banter.

It looks like Mark rose to the occasion!

but I ban him for lack of puns in his banter!

I do NOT ban the preceding banner 'cause that would
unban his predecessor which would cause a ripple
effect banning all of us and I just couldn't handle
a world without the forum.

I ban the above because it has been raining a [I]LOT [/I]lately.

I ban kracker for being a cat. Cats aren't meant to speak English.

EDIT: Previous post I was addressing-
[QUOTE]I do NOT ban the preceding banner 'cause that would
unban his predecessor which would cause a ripple
effect banning all of us and I just couldn't handle
a world without the forum. [/QUOTE]

I do NOT ban the previous poster for having the most inventive and involved reason for not banning I have seen so far.

I ban any barbers who cut their own hair.

[QUOTE=only_human;361398]I ban any barbers who cut their own hair.[/QUOTE]

I don't ban the above, because it does not commit the grammatical sin of mixing the plural pronoun "their" with singular nouns such as "anyone".

[QUOTE=kladner;361399]I don't ban the above, because it does not commit the grammatical sin of mixing the plural pronoun "their" with singular nouns such as "anyone".[/QUOTE]I ban any group that would accept me as a member.

I ban the user above me for spelling his name backward. We're not children anymore people.

I ban the user above for mistaking mirror image for backwards.

I ban the user above for SHUT UP

I ban this guy, and I ban that guy, and I ban ALL those other guys.

If I asked the guy 2 above whether to ban the guy one above what would he say? Never Mind, nobody on this board will get the logic. Ban em both to Hoggle's pond. Labyrinth.

[QUOTE=Fusion_power;361420]If I asked the guy 2 above whether to ban the guy one above what would he say? Never Mind, nobody on this board will get the logic. Ban em both to Hoggle's pond. Labyrinth.[/QUOTE]

HANG THEM ALL!!!

~MEOW

[QUOTE=Fusion_power;361420]If I asked the guy 2 above whether to ban the guy one above what would he say? Never Mind, nobody on this board will get the logic. Ban em both to Hoggle's pond. Labyrinth.[/QUOTE]



I ban the guy above for even suggesting I have the right to say whether or not to ban the guy above him. That's his territory, not mine.

On the other hand, had you not said anything, I WOULD have been allowed to ban him because he would be above me. Instead you are, so I ban you.

I ban the guy above me for missing Kracker's post and thus rendering his entire spiel a bunch of gibberish.

I don't ban the person above me, because he already banned himself.

I don't ban the user above me because I am unsure how to say this users name, and I don't want to look even more foolish.

I ban Muzak in elevators, ketchup in little plastic pouches and hot-air hand-dryers.

("Simon" movie reference)
[url]http://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0312/031202.html[/url]
[QUOTE]Much of the action takes place at a research institute, funded by a government grant and run by a group of insanely mischievous scientists. Originally their mission was to "save the world," but they got into "more interesting material" -- like inventing an electronic system to mess up the TV ratings and developing a gas that makes people stupid.

One day, a member of the gang takes to wondering what would happen if an extraterrestrial suddenly showed up on earth. So the mad scientists set up an experiment. They recruit a psychology teacher named Simon, brainwash him with weird laboratory procedures, and convince him that he's an alien from another part of our galaxy. Things get even crazier when Simon decides it's hism mission to save the world and starts to issue proclamations via national TV: No more Muzak in elevators, no more ketchup in little plastic pouches, no more hot-air hand-dryers in washrooms, and similar apocalyptic ideas.

It's a clever concept for a movie -- a man who thinks he's from outer space, and a world that's all too eager to believe him.[/QUOTE]I leverage my spaceman avatar as reason enough to reference this movie.

[QUOTE=chappy;361621]I don't ban the user above me because I am unsure how to say this users name, and I don't want to look even more foolish.[/QUOTE]
Almost no-one does (spelling too for that matter), so I think I'm the foolish one for choosing such an obscure name perhaps!

P.S. Is "he" not gender neutral? I had thought it was, like "mankind" to refer to humanity, not only men...


I guess while I am here I should not ban the user above me. He is only human after all...

:goodposting: NOT banned!

The user above is banned because Christmas sucks and it's apparently been too quiet around here!

The above user is correct about Christmas but is nonetheless banned for describing it with a word which doesn't pass the nanny filters.

[QUOTE=Brian-E;362924]The above user is correct about Christmas but is nonetheless banned for describing it with a word which doesn't pass the nanny filters.[/QUOTE]The above user is banned for using sexist terminology. :paul:

The above user is banned for using an ageist smiley.

The above user is banned for wrongly accusing me of ageism. The smiley is a remarkably accurate representation of my real appearance.

[QUOTE=xilman;362929]The above user is banned for wrongly accusing me of ageism. The smiley is a remarkably accurate representation of my real appearance.[/QUOTE]The above user is banned for assuming a nanny was necessarily female, Or a user named Jane for that matter.

The above user is not banned, because the narcissism of signing off with a picture of oneself is a lot less tedious than sending pictures of one's children which most people seem to do.

I ban everybody.
That's the Christmas spirit...

I ban the user above for hogging all the bans. Bah! Humbug on the Xmas spirit!

I ban the ban hammer and replace it with a ridiculous looking wand. I insist that moderators wear star adorned robes.

Everyone posting to this thread is banned!
 

All you bored slackers should be polishing your heatsinks instead of draining the life from us by posting ban requests.

Just ban Laurv first as he is guilty of using his portrait photo as his avatar!

I ban the user above for trying to ban the thread.

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I ban the above for no reason. At all. None.

[QUOTE=kracker;362956]I ban the above for no reason. At all. None.[/QUOTE]

Banned for failure to follow thread rules.

I ban the above user for failure to elaborate
exactly what aspect of the thread rules
he was referring to in his perfectly valid banning.

#36
:ban:

I ban the above user for posting the false location of "Planet Melmac".

I ban the above user for being pure evil.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;363231]#36
:ban:[/QUOTE]
Oh - oh! Okay then, whoever released post #36 very late from the moderation queue is banned for making my post #37 appear to refer to David instead of Paul as I intended.

[QUOTE=sonjohan;363248]I ban the above user for being pure evil.[/QUOTE]
The above user is not banned because without him the mind-bogglingly exciting and enthralling "6 letters game" would have died long ago.

The previous user is not banned, as he has pointed out
the "value" and "interest" in word games with non-prime
numbers of letters.

I ban any active users who dare to enrobe their names in Tyrian Purple.

The above user is unbanned because it is only their username that is enrobed in Tyrian Purple. However they are rebanned because their real name is shown backwards.

[URL="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=361406&postcount=19"]I ban the above user for mistaking mirror image for backwards.[/URL]

[QUOTE=chappy;363325][URL="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=361406&postcount=19"]I ban the above user for mistaking mirror image for backwards.[/URL][/QUOTE]I just keep getting people into trouble. Tink! Tink! Tink! (tapping glass on screen); it seems pretty normal on this side. Am about to attend a party -- am following a white rabbit. There is no spoon.

The first time I ever wrote my name I wrote it in reverse image. After being informed that it was wrong, I was given another piece of paper on a large easel. They wrote it for me and then turned it over for me to try. Again, I traced the barely perceptible image from the back-side. The third time was the charm.

My mother has Dyslexia, I've never been tested and have very good reading comprehension but there are times that I absolutely do not see anything wrong when there is a simple error right in front of me. Forum members have surely noticed that almost all my messages are edited after first posting.

So, I proclaim a ban on banning people over reversals and reflections. I can not ban people over this without undoing my ban on banning people over them. I think. Spoonerisms, however will be severely punished and transferred to the Queen of Hearts for processing.

That is all.

The above user is banned for writing his name on his back side.

[QUOTE=retina;363238]I ban the above user for posting the false location of "Planet Melmac".[/QUOTE]
I ban the quoted user for using a false location.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;363409]I ban the quoted user for using a false location.[/QUOTE]I unban the banned paragon above because, although slow, the false position method can be useful in instances that depend on the endpoints of an interval. I ban the first person that considers this reasoning nonsensical.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;363409]I ban the quoted user for using a false location.[/QUOTE]Stands to reason that I should re-ban the quoted user for copying my unreasonable reasoning for banning and not thinking up a new unreasonable reason of his own.

[QUOTE=retina;363499]Stands to reason that I should re-ban the quoted user for copying my unreasonable reasoning for banning and not thinking up a new unreasonable reason of his own.[/QUOTE]
I ban the above user for being evil.

[QUOTE=only_human;363260]I ban any active users who dare to enrobe their names in Tyrian Purple.[/QUOTE]

[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=6][COLOR=DarkOrchid][B]kladner[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[COLOR=DarkOrchid][SIZE=6][FONT=Impact][B][SIZE=2]
[/SIZE][/B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][COLOR=Black]I wave my [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][COLOR=DarkOrchid][SIZE=6][FONT=Impact][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][COLOR=Black][COLOR=DarkOrchid]Tyrian Purple[/COLOR]-enrobled, [FONT=Comic Sans MS]Comic Sans[/FONT]-ennobled name in the general direction of your Aunties, so-called [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][COLOR=Black]king!

I ban you for trying to hog the [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]Tyrian Purple![/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/COLOR]

I ban the above user for using Comic Sans[URL="http://bancomicsans.com/main/"].[/URL]

I ban the user above for having a gif as a avatar.

I ban the user above for changing an absolutely adorable kitten avatar.

[QUOTE=kladner;363504][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=6][COLOR=DarkOrchid][B]kladner[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[COLOR=DarkOrchid][SIZE=6][FONT=Impact][B][SIZE=2]
[/SIZE][/B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][COLOR=Black]I wave my [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][COLOR=DarkOrchid][SIZE=6][FONT=Impact][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][COLOR=Black][COLOR=DarkOrchid]Tyrian Purple[/COLOR]-enrobled, [FONT=Comic Sans MS]Comic Sans[/FONT]-ennobled name in the general direction of your Aunties, so-called [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][COLOR=Black]king!

I ban you for trying to hog the [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]Tyrian Purple![/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/COLOR][/QUOTE]My Purple Reign is Mauveless. I ban musicians [I]and[/I] users that replace their names with symbols.

I ban the above user for having a yen for a symbol.

I ban the above poster for not banning the poster above them for not giving Bruce McCandless his proper due. :anurag:
And no, I won't budgie on this.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;363906]I ban the above poster for not banning the poster above them for not giving Bruce McCandless his proper due. :anurag:
And no, I won't budgie on this.[/QUOTE]I was not actually aware that this astronaut was [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_McCandless_II"]Bruce McCandless II[/URL]. When I selected my avatar, I did a search for public domain images and did not pay much further attention after selecting one. It obviously corresponds to the one in the linked Wikipedia entry but mine has the Earth horizon halfway up the astronaut instead of his toes dangling over it. I kind of like that because it still shows the Earth even after clipping the image to a small size. At the time I was concerned that my avatar resembled a logon picture available for Windows users, but I am not sure where the Earth stood in the picture that they used.

Using artistic license and fictitious quantum legerdemain before the ban takes effect, I gratefully acknowledge Bruce McCandless' contribution to humanity's presence in space and congratulate him on a successful test of the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) that allowed this eerie positioning of an untethered astronaut with the Earth in the background.

I further add that my legerdemain was so successful, I was able to apply it to prevent budgie banning even though I am on a yen symbol time-out. That is assuming that I was able to budge the budgie banner.

[QUOTE=only_human;363909]That is assuming that I was able to budge the budgie banner.[/QUOTE]

No such luck. I'm still here.

I unban the above user because I'm fed up with reading all the verbiage justifying what he/she is doing, and this is the easiest option.

[QUOTE=BudgieJane;363933]No such luck. I'm still here.

I unban the above user because I'm fed up with reading all the verbiage justifying what he/she is doing, and this is the easiest option.[/QUOTE]
Thus I have struck a blow for teenagers everywhere.
I ban this above user because I consider a prime number of posts so beautiful that it must be preserved.

[QUOTE=only_human;363945]Thus I have struck a blow for teenagers everywhere.
I ban this above user because I consider a prime number of posts so beautiful that it must be preserved.[/QUOTE]

I ban the above user for not using a comma in their post, or a semi-colon, or a colon, or a dash, or a smilie.:razz:

This whole thread is banned for being altogether naughty.

[SPOILER]...just kidding, will unlock in half an hour...[/SPOILER]

I ban the above user for abusing his power. [COLOR=white]And forgetting to claim it was all in the name of national security.[/COLOR]

I regretfully ban the above user for failing to quote Lord Acton.

I do not ban the above user because an epistemological analysis of the user's activity gains no knowledge when the user is not present.