Should Hootie be able to bribe his way off permaban?
 

Ok, just to be clear, this is a non binding poll. I'm just curious to find out what you guys feel on this.

Hootie wants to come back and offered to pay $150 to the server fund + $10/month AND will behave himself.

Any final decision on this is up to the mods... they have to deal with the messes so it's their call.

Like Hootie said to the passed out girl... "Pole is coming up"

Yes

He's going to lose this in a landslide, btw.

In

That's some pretty serious collateral. So long as you reserve the right to ban him if he gets out of line again and the cash is non-refundable. It is him putting his "money-where-his-mouth-is" about his behavior. I am in favor.

Only if the community is given the option to create a banning fund that he has to beat in order to continue to post. Say each month there are contributions made to a Pay Pal account that go towards server costs. If he comes up with more by the end of the month, then he is allowed to post during the next month. This continues in perpetuity.

I like Hootie, and I know he's going to lose in a landslide anyway.

I said yes.

" AND will behave himself"

Did I miss this promise?

Have you ever played the board game Illuminati?

Reminds me a lot of that.

This gives me an idea - Austin should sell policy voting shares annually on chiefsplanet. We could be like Sons of Anarchy only on the internets.

haha now that's just mean. Guy would need to take on extra work and sell blood just to keep up.

As long as nobody asks where he got the blood, he should be fine.

If the ban was permanent, then no. What are consequences without consistent application?

Frazod and KC Native option.

Im going to go out on a limb and say someone will alter the results to Yes regardless of the majority vote so some server cost $ will come in. And I wouldn't blame you one bit.

A monthly fee might be a bit much. How about just the initial payment?

We have rep income. We should have rep taxes. Every year you have to pay a rep tax or you get limitations put on your account, ranging from the inability to view the girlie thread up to banning.

Voting should be public. Poll fail.

You ****ing troublemaker. LMAO

This is just one of many ways you should be milking this site for cash, Austin. You really need to profit off the animosity that exists among users. Do the paid name change thing, where people can pay $10 to change their own name or avatar, or to change somebody elses. You'd retire in a year.

I didn't agree with Hootie's banning (though I didn't really care that much either) but he shouldn't have to buy his way back on if is going to be allowed to return.

I was just going to vote "no" but this gives him a chance to log on now and then. You could set up a Pay Pal account for those willing to help him as well. Servers don't pay for themselves.

It's like a non-refundable behavior deposit.

Ha, nope. The poll is nonbinding anyway. Mod decision.

So far we have 1 vote from Flop of - Let him back but he isn't getting any special treatment.

I said "yes," but it's not because I think people should be able to buy back in; it's because I still disagree with him being banned.

Now accepting bribes...

Thinking about it, Hootie acted like he was rather entitled to be here before. Imagine what he'd be like if he actually paid monthly dues.

Wasn't he banned for a thinly-veiled threat of a defamation lawsuit something?

Hey that money would go straight to my bar tab server costs.

I'll throw in a yes.

Doesn't cost me anything. And anything that helps CP run smoothly, I'm in.

I don't really care one way or another. He never got under my skin or irritated me in any way. The fact that so many people do care, would indicate that he is significant to this board.

Now those 49er bots, are starting to concern me as to the ignore list capacity.

I don't care either way, but taking his money as a condition of his return makes things much more complicated, imo.

Depends on which time. Originally, I believe it was because he posted some personal info about a poster on here (not names, but posted about an event that wasn't especially flattering).

Since then, he's been banned a dozen times, mostly because he has an issue with authority and refuses to play within the rules (granted, the rules have mostly been pretty minor since that first one like filter evasions and that kind of thing).

Ok so if the mods end up in a tie AND this poll ends up a tie... Fraz and Native will be the tiebreaker. You two better get your vote ready! :D

Just to be clear, these are HIS conditions not ones we came up with in any way.

**** Hootie

Thig Lyfe before Hootie.

This will cause you nothing but trouble. Phil has assured me that all the moderators hate me now. :D

Seriously? Trying to buy your way back on to a website where you were banned and apparently not well-liked is pretty sad, IMO.

And if Fraz and Native end up in a tie, can we make it contingent on the outcome of the Chiefs-Broncos game? That would add a little more excitement to the game week.

Yeah, that one isn't happening. Although I appreciated his culinary suggestions to me (yum!) in the end I personally banned him and added a crap load of IP's to the server access control lists to keep him off the site. Way to too much work to undo on that one.

He doesn't respect your rules by contacting the board by proxy. **** him.

What happened with Thig?

Well that's not exactly the SPIRIT of the rule. Simply using someone to ask if you can come back is fine as long as it is a one shot deal. I'm sure Clay knows this as well or he wouldn't have posted it.

Whew when I first opened this thread I thought Hootie was going to bribe his way in with a private Hootie and the 'Blowfish' party. Whew it's just money!

Personally I have nothing against him coming back, but I would also say if be behaves himself long enough any continuing payment should disappear.

What do you mean "now"? ;)

I thought Thig was Hootie, just with a fake moustache.

Do we even know Clay isn't just making this up?

After his bazillionth filter violation he was given a temp ban and when he came back after it was done he told me to eat a bag of dicks and that my rules were stupid, etc etc.

This was after I made it clear that the filter rule is NOT about dirty words but about giving people choices and his constant disregard for it is no better than someone who finds a way to get around someone's ignore list.

Sure why not.

So...free Thig?

What are the poll options in the mod thread? Curious minds want to know. Is there a gaz option? I mean, talk about the founding father forsaking a fundamental tradition here...

Wait.... were these organic dicks, or were they loaded with additives to enhance the flavor? This is important stuff for the Jamie Oliver thread.

Okay...that's fair. **** Hootie

I voted yes.

I have no problems with Hootie, but I don't like the idea of someone having a paid membership. I don't know if being a paying customer creates legality issues for the MODs. Might want to look into that before deciding this. Donations? Cool. But this sounds more like a contract.

And if that ends in a tie?

If you let this cat back in he's just going to shit on the carpet.

Whoever chugs anti-freeze the fastest


/CP

There are no legal issues, but it isn't even that formal. He is just offering to donate to the site in gratitude for being let back in if he promises to behave.

BTW, for those wondering, the mod poll is a close one, if it ends up a tie, this poll will be the tiebreaker then the Fraz/Native deathmatch if this poll is a tie.

I'd let a cat shit on my carpet once for 150 bucks. Then I'd throw him right back outside.

This.

And THIS.

I don't have a problem with him coming as long as he doesn't get any special privileges like ban exemptions.

Also what happens when he misses a month of payment?

Now I am just rooting for a tie.

We must tie this poll!!!!

Little MOD help here.

Hell if I know! I would imagine it wouldn't be an issue if he was behaving himself. I don't make these decisions I pass the buck on to you guys and the mods!

Can we also vote on whether filter evasion should result in a ban or not?

Right. If he gets back in I'm starting a poll on how long before he gets tossed back out.

could we get a fund set up to get knowmo banned? :p

I'm pretty sure the results are being "adjusted" to keep it close.

This. Can we just have Hootie and Knomo trade places?

Um, no. Of all the sites rules, it's the ONE I have explained the rationale for OVER AND ****ING OVER AGAIN. Seriously, anyone has a problem with it they can take a ****ing hike.

I look at it this way: A certain donkey homer has his own spam thread.

Hootie adds a ton more to this place than that welching bitch.

ROFL

btw, this poll is coming along pretty much how I thought. Not as many "deathmatch" votes as hoped for though.

Well said. **** them both.

most know that's gonna happen w/o any pole.
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This

I repeat :evil:

Him getting to come back is already a special privilege.

I know what Thig did, but what got Hootie permabanned? Was it also filter evasion?