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A good rule of thumb, that I really shouldn't need to is mention, is don't make extra work for the mods and admins. Of course some amount of work, like dealing with spammers and general thread maintenance, is part of the job and expected. However we don't get paid for the stuff we do so if you are making us do extra work you'll likely end up on our unwritten "watch list" and it's just a hop, skip, and a jump from there to my list of potential ban candidates.
Another thing to know is that we do pay attention to who is contributing to the "signal" on the site and who is contributing to the "noise", as I described in this post from a few years ago. Those of you who have been adding to the signal, or have built up a store of "goodwill" (or "karma", if you will), are treated differently than somebody who is mostly just adding noise or who is a newcomer on the site, and therefore hasn't had a chance to build up much goodwill. This also factors into who ends up on our watch list.
With regards to BLUND specifically I got tired of checking all of his pics posts for inappropriate content. Before his last pics post in this thread he posted a NSFW pic in the funny picture thread and a pic in the funny picture thread that was likely to freak out the arachnophobes on the site. And there were other similar instances before those. He might not have known we have a special spider thread to put the spider pic in but it's up to each newcomer to learn the norms and "idioms" of these forums as we don't provide any guidance to newbies on here. You might even say we're newbie unfriendly, though I don't think we're as bad as when schild was more active and banning newbies for posting stupid shit.
BLUND also didn't contribute much outside of his pics postings and so didn't have much if any goodwill built up in my book, which factored into my decision. Somebody like rk47, on the hand, has contributed a lot to the site beyond all of his pics posts, as his custom title attests to. In fact I made this board so rk47 would have a place to put his pics that weren't appropriate for the other picture threads rather than banning him or telling him to stop posting his pics.
I probably should've only temp banned BLUND, and I may rescinded his ban at some point, but as I said we tend not to like those posters who are making the mods and admins do extra work and I didn't feel he was contributing enough to keep around.
And while we're on the subject of things not to do here, do not give the moderators shit for doing their job. If you don't like something a mod has done, talk to me or schild. Some of you are fortunate that the mods have pretty thick skins. I, on the other hand, am too old and don't have the patience to put up with crap from you people and as some of you know am very quick to ban those who give me shit personally.
Heheh, who needs AV7 anyway?