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After four years of on-and-off shenanigans, my username has been put to pasture at the STL Today forums.

I'll be in bed all day. No calls please.

Banned for what?

I recently registered as mikesmithdecision. Hopefully I will have a post deleted by mike smith with the reason given as mike smith decision. If my calculations are coreect CardsTalk will then implode on itself and the world will be a better place.

I posted a message last night called "REALITY CHECK.....1" Then I said a bunch of dumb things including a tirade where I blamed the Cardinals for the drug abuse in America, with some very exaggerated numbers.

And I finished it with "Carpeeeee Dekem."

I got banned several years ago.

I don't know what possessed me, but somebody posted something that was totally ignorant, and I overreacted.

Imagine that--something totally ignorant on CT.

So I posted a great pic I found of Bid Laden violating a goat. And I gave it a caption: You really must refrain from such stupid ideas.

But Mike Smith didn't think it was funny.

GatewaySnayke wrote:I posted a message last night called "REALITY CHECK.....1" Then I said a bunch of dumb things including a tirade where I blamed the Cardinals for the drug abuse in America, with some very exaggerated numbers.

And I finished it with "Carpeeeee Dekem."

I can't believe that got banned. It was pure poetry and demonstrated everything that CT was about.

It was almost as good as the giraffe pajamas bit.

That place has an uncanny ability to turn normal people crazy.

i still, honestly, have no idea why i was banned there.

i had one account and i was banned so with my 2nd i tried to be nice and follow the rules and what not.

got banned, asked mike why...he didn't have an answer, then when he was going to reinstate me but he got out of it 'cause it was my dads email ('cause i had used my only email address that they would take, not a hotmail/gmail/yahoo)...and he was like "oh, we can't do that if its not your address"...


piece o' crap

The Mike has spoken! Kind of!

From: Ryan
Subject: being banned

Your username has been banned due to one or more violations of the Registration Agreement.
Please email sitehelp@stltoday.com if you have questions. (mikesmith)

Username: Teve Torbes

Kinda curious how I got banned for something that merely mocks what other posters start. Hopefully you do the right thing and send Deke on a permaban.

Subject: RE: being banned
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:26:26 -0500
From: sitehelp@stltoday.com

Your e-mail address is registered to the member name "Teve Torbes".
The member name "Teve Torbes" has been banned from the forums by the moderator "mikesmith".
Reason: Name-calling and abusing other posters in Cards Talk.
The moderator who banned you has been Bcc'd on this reply, please do not re-register or post in the forums while you are banned under this member name.

Abusing other posters?! I made a MOCK post basically doing what Deke and BG do and I abused other posters? How in the world did *I* draw your ire when shameless crap disturbers get away with name-calling and abuse on a daily basis?

This is not going to end without a fight.

Count me in the group of former posters that doesn't know why they were banned.

GatewaySnayke wrote:The Mike has spoken! Kind of!

From: Ryan
Subject: being banned

Your username has been banned due to one or more violations of the Registration Agreement.
Please email sitehelp@stltoday.com if you have questions. (mikesmith)

Username: Teve Torbes

Kinda curious how I got banned for something that merely mocks what other posters start. Hopefully you do the right thing and send Deke on a permaban.

Subject: RE: being banned
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:26:26 -0500
From: sitehelp@stltoday.com

Your e-mail address is registered to the member name "Teve Torbes".
The member name "Teve Torbes" has been banned from the forums by the moderator "mikesmith".
Reason: Name-calling and abusing other posters in Cards Talk.
The moderator who banned you has been Bcc'd on this reply, please do not re-register or post in the forums while you are banned under this member name.

Abusing other posters?! I made a MOCK post basically doing what Deke and BG do and I abused other posters? How in the world did *I* draw your ire when shameless crap disturbers get away with name-calling and abuse on a daily basis?

This is not going to end without a fight.

Geez. But I'm guessing the schneitzelmania rolls on.