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It wasn't me who silenced you. I was just going for a bad pun as well (and gave up). I didn't see you (or anyone) mention that just before you were silenced you said the equivalent of "screw you" (broken between multiple lines of chatter which I won't quote because I don't have them handy and I haven't asked your permission to quote your chatter).

Much later, when I found out that you hadn't just run out of things to say, I figured one of the gods had noticed you chatting extremely fast and rather strangely and wondered "where is this going?", especially since trolls often talk a lot, making jokes, before they start getting offensive. When the "NAIL you" was changed to "SCREW", that person felt you had crossed the line and gave you your warning. You were put on suspension from chatting for a mere 5 minutes. Nothing permanent was done.

The person made a mistake (that they admitted to me when we happened to discuss it yesterday) in using the "stealth" silencer instead of the usual /borg which publically announces that you have been temporarilly silenced (in a whimsical way). Had I and other witnesses been made aware of what had happened (by the usual chatter from NodeReaper), then we probably would have commented on the incident and things would have been better resolved. But I don't fault him for choosing to silence you and he has no qualms about that part of his decision.

Sure, there are other options available for issuing warnings. Trolls often love to get those. I know you from way back (I keep a /msg from you in my chatter box still) so I was very curious when I saw you chatting like that but not very worried. Had I not recognized your login name, I would have been worried. Had you just said "screw you" w/o the super-rapid chatting, then you'd probably have just gotten reminded to watch your language.

We could also be more explicit and clear about what the methods of dealing with trolls are and about what has happened in each individual case. Instead of something whimsical from NodeReaper, we could have "root says mischief has lost chatterbox privileges for 5 minutes for (insert reason)". I don't really want to go there and I get the impression that many others don't either.

I could go for a "What happened?" link inside the chatterbox of the silenced user that takes you to a page explaining reasons why one might get silenced. I don't have time to write such but perhaps one of our many documentation volunteers will.

So I hope we can all get over this incident without any long-lasting grudges. I certainly still like both mischief and the guy who shut him up. (:

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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