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December 15, 2011 05:10 PM UTC

MichaelEllis: 2 Days In The Pols Penalty Box

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We allow vigorous debate at Colorado Pols, and as a site that caters to adults interested in politics, we allow the judicious use of strong language. In the last 24 hours, MichaelEllis has let loose with a tirade of pointless flaming. These exchanges go well beyond reasonable standards of debate, and do not seem to have a purpose other than petty antagonism of other users. This detracts from the experience of everyone who visits our site.

For these infractions, MichaelEllis is sentenced to two days in the Pols Penalty Box.

The Pols Penalty Box is a less-draconian way than banning users to calm down a flame war or enforce the very minimal policies governing this community, where users can write whatever they want during their suspension (all by themselves).

To visit the Colorado Pols Penalty Box, click here. Remember, only Penalty Boxed users may comment at the Penalty Box, and only during their suspension period.

NOTE: Any attempts to circumvent a sentence to the Pols Penalty Box, including the creation or use of duplicate accounts by a Penalty Boxed user, will result in a permanent ban.

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37 thoughts on “MichaelEllis: 2 Days In The Pols Penalty Box

  1. The last thing we need here is some independent-thinking outsider demonstrating an ability to fight back when we gang up on him for dissenting against the groupthink of our little netherworld. So what if he was only fighting back (successfully) against our mindless bullying? We make the rules in this here sandbox, and if we say it’s OK for us to mercilessly flame dissenters but it’s not OK for them to fight back with equal tone and vigor, well, that’s just the way it is. Right on, Guvs.

    1. It really takes some creativity, tenacity and all-around arrogance to do it. Few have achieved such a tough, and lofty goal.

      Hopefully it was worth this slap-yourself-on-the-back comment.

      1. Wouldn’t be the first time a Democrat got caught because of a rule made due to a Republican. (Although in a technical sense, the account in question was created before the boxing.)

  2. now Michael is going to go the persecuted civil libertarian/underground freedom fighter/fight the power hero route.

    The corporate superstructure at Pols just can’t stifle his all important screeds.

    First they laugh at you, and then, well, they laugh at you again.

    Viva la resistance !

            1. they ran some program that identified each “user” and numbered them in order of their appearance on Pols, starting with a previous upgrade. I figured that out when I found an old diary and saw that the user name numbers were in perfect order.

              I put “users” in quotes because they had something like 4700 of them with this upgrade, yet it took nearly three years for them to double that number. There was a whole lot of sockpuppetry going on when you could enter any old name and email address to post your comment.

    1. Just click the hyperlink in my quote. Michael’s shit was flying EVERYWHERE.

      If you want to be the bigger person in your feud with Ralphie, I suggest ending it and never take the bait again. And I mean ever and forever.

      1. quick temper. I don’t condone either of those behaviors. Foul-mouth, flame-throwing  newbies get banned or put in the penalty box, while foul-mouthed flame-throwing old-timers are exalted or get elected FPE around here. I’m not the first one to point this out.

        1. Maybe you feel like he “defended” you when you got called out last night, but that dude was out of his mind and clearly determined to go on a full monty meltdown.

        2. and I’ve been a Pols regular for 5 1/2 years now. Maybe in one posts, or two, but not twenty or so, and not directed at everybody who commented.

          Surely you can perceive the difference?

    2. It’s time for a cooling-off period in flamewars with other readers. We also cannot allow users to repeatedly inquire about the identity of other anonymous readers of our blog.

      And yet, you’re still at it, by attacking anyone who disagrees with you for daring to post anonymously…which has been the whole premise of this blog from the beginning.

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