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WG's Mr. Tomato Head
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Banning of Members
We want Wildlife Gardeners to be an enjoyable experience for as many members as possible. It was a high priority goal at our inception, and it remains a high priority goal. In order to accomplish our goal it is sometimes necessary to limit, or prohibit, certain activities at our website. While the vast majority of Wildlife Gardener’s members are respectful and courteous people who use our service responsibly, we do occasionally encounter bad apples that enjoy disrupting the forums and harassing fellow forum members. We have forum guidelines and rules to address this: Forum Rules - Wildlife Gardeners - North American Wildlife Gardening But we realize that our guidelines and rules cannot be all-inclusive. That leaves us in a position where we are not able to spell out rules in legalese to cover every possible interpretation or situation. What does this mean? Situations may arise that are not covered by our guidelines and fine print. Although we would prefer to act only on situations covered in writing, site management reserves the right to act as needed to deal with members that we determine are intent on being a disruptive presence. In addition to being committed to providing an enjoyable friendly place for member discussions, we are committed to our mission statement. We’ve placed it on our home page. It’s who we are; it’s why we’re here: Wildlife Gardeners
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WG's Mr. Tomato Head
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Administrative summary
Banning is at the discretion of site management. Suspension is also at the discretion of site management. No online community is perfect. We are not going to be able to get through to every bad apple. This places us in the position of sometimes making it necessary to exercise our right to ban someone from membership at this website. When banning a member we take into consideration the nature, severity, and the number and frequency of complaints submitted by other members in addition to our own findings. Members are most likely to be banned for posts that are intended to disrupt the productive discourse, stimulating conversation, and the sharing of ideas and resources by our members.
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"If gardening isn't a pleasure for you, chances are the work will merely give you a rotten disposition. If you'd rather be golfing or fishing, get a bumper sticker that says so, and forget gardening." Elsa Bakalar |
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WG's Mr. Tomato Head
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Banned Members
In the interests of transparency and accountability, we will be listing banned members. We will not be listing suspended members as suspension is temporary and is intended to provide a member with a break from a situation to calm down and gain perspective. Wildlife Gardeners site management will attempt to update this thread when appropriate. alexboudet self promotion annavogelav evidently a prolific spammer Armageddon troll, ad hominem attacks Arrow ad hominem attacks, spammer, astroturfer attairene spammer Audrey123 spammer bridgetdevers spammer buckeye lady sock puppet/shill, solicited personal donations from members Community Cat ad hominem attacks, TNR activist Dave Hunter astroturfer, prolific self promoter, soliciting members earthwatch spammer, global warming activist Eatoncover e-mail failure, account disabled or discontinued Ecoconscious spammer, global warming activist ecovoice ad hominem attacks, global warming activist edward1207 abuse of private messaging system, soliciting members FerraioliJames spammer flounder prolific self promoting blogger gmehl self promoting blogger, harassed members in PM’s, challenged site management HjX9FXI spammer james spammer joeleitz evidently a prolific spammer ktsmith57 e-mail failure. Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account (kats_tiffany@yahoo.com) kelda troll LDavid spammer, global warming activist mdrx spammer mitch101 spammer Mustang Jack astroturfer MonarchGarden spammer, astroturfer phyllis e-mail delivery failure, Recipient user name phyllis (phyllis@xxxx.org) not unique. Several matches found in Domino Directory. QuiddityWay spammer Rob31 spammer seedlover7 spammer shmolney troll, ad hominem attacks shutter bug troll, ad hominem attacks, abused site management Stoloniferous astroturfer, ad hominem attacks, challenged site management Sunshine2u spammer vanattaflowers self promotion wildliberation troll, ad hominem attack, feral cat & agenda 21 advocate
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"If gardening isn't a pleasure for you, chances are the work will merely give you a rotten disposition. If you'd rather be golfing or fishing, get a bumper sticker that says so, and forget gardening." Elsa Bakalar Last edited by WG Admin; 07-02-2015 at 12:53 PM. Reason: adding spammer |
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WG's Mr. Tomato Head
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"If gardening isn't a pleasure for you, chances are the work will merely give you a rotten disposition. If you'd rather be golfing or fishing, get a bumper sticker that says so, and forget gardening." Elsa Bakalar |
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