June 27, 2006

12:21 PM

How long should a generally good contributor be banned for giving a
bad jokey answer to a controversial AskMe topic?
posted by If I Had An Anus to etiquette/policy at 12:21 PM (24 comments total)

I ask because keswick has been
banned for about a month
now, and I'd like to see him re-instated.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 12:22 PM on June 27, 2006

Hear hear!

He owes me ten bucks, anyway.
posted by loquacious at 12:25 PM on June 27, 2006

Me too.
posted by iconomy at 12:27 PM on June 27, 2006

FREE KESWICK! FREE KESWICK!

(the first keswick is free. once they're hooked, then you start charging)
posted by jonmc at 12:27 PM on June 27, 2006 [1 favorite]

sure, what the hell.
posted by puke & cry at 12:27 PM on June 27, 2006

slut!
posted by rxrfrx at 12:28 PM on June 27, 2006

Me too, as in I'd like to see him reinstated. Not me too, as in he also owes me ten bucks.

But he can give me the money if he really wants to.
posted by iconomy at 12:29 PM on June 27, 2006

Why can't he just get a sockpuppet? Isn't that de rigueur around here?
posted by bardic at 12:30 PM on June 27, 2006

From MeCha:

No, I'm usually not that good at the whole hat-in-the-hand thing. I'm thinking about paying someone to do it for me.
posted by keswick 05 June | 12:17

So, IHAA, what's the going rate?
posted by Faint of Butt at 12:31 PM on June 27, 2006

(line breaks added for poetic effect)
posted by If I Had An Anus at 12:32 PM on June 27, 2006

Who seth he hathn't already?
posted by deadfather at 12:32 PM on June 27, 2006

FoB...as far as I know, he did email Matt and was ignored.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 12:33 PM on June 27, 2006

Comedy gold.
posted by bardic at 12:33 PM on June 27, 2006

No, I'm usually not that good at the whole hat-in-the-hand thing.

Sounds to me like he's learned his lesson and really wants back in.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 12:40 PM on June 27, 2006

Sounds to me like he's learned his lesson and really wants back in.

"There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm out here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then, a young, stupid kid who made that terrible comment. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit.
posted by cortex at 1:07 PM on June 27, 2006

Why do people have such an aversion to actually making their point on the MetaTalk front page?
posted by smackfu at 1:08 PM on June 27, 2006

Spoils the mystery, smackfu. The Metatalk, she is a coy lover.
posted by cortex at 1:13 PM on June 27, 2006

"Why do people have such an aversion to actually making their point on the MetaTalk front page?"

Did you get a cramp in your finger clicking that one extra time?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 1:13 PM on June 27, 2006

cortex, are you trying to say that keswick should sneak back in to MeFi through a sewer pipe? Or that keswick and Rothko are off on a beach in Mexico somewhere together?
posted by Gamblor at 1:16 PM on June 27, 2006

I halfheartedly agree that the guy should be let back in. Halfheartedly because I never visit this place any more, but like keswick.
posted by item at 1:22 PM on June 27, 2006

I haven't gotten any email from him, so it fell through the cracks.
posted by mathowie at 1:23 PM on June 27, 2006

This was a completely necessary MeTa thread that couldn't possibly have been handled via e-mail.
posted by cribcage at 1:25 PM on June 27, 2006

Except that would have denied everyone the pleasure of viewing the conversation. Admin activities around here are a spectator sport.
posted by Gamblor at 1:28 PM on June 27, 2006

And it has been resolved.
posted by mathowie at 1:36 PM on June 27, 2006