Once again, I missed out on the penis talk 

I wonder if there have been any complaints at all about the forum member who has gone out of their way to mention or make constant innuendo about gay sex, and also post threads with religious and political content? (yes, I'm talking about you 'eph221')
 
These things don't offend me in the slightest, 'cos I'm a grown up (allegedly), but if there have been 'multiple complaints' about the use of the word 'penis', I would have thought they would have been all over that like a swarm of flies.
 
Seems a bit odd, especially as anyone with even a vague sense of humour could tell that Steve uses that word in an ironic manner, to parody the sometimes banal content in the CH.

I come from the school that if you frequently post stuff that might be considered "offensive" to some, then you are on thin ice. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is for a forum hosted by a business.
 
And the fact that other people might post arguably "worse" things is irrelevant. If CW thinks you are over the line it doesn't matter what they think of someone else.

drewfx1
I come from the school that if you frequently post stuff that might be considered "offensive" to some, then you are on thin ice. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is for a forum hosted by a business.
 
And the fact that other people might post arguably "worse" things is irrelevant. If CW thinks you are over the line it doesn't matter what they think of someone else.

You missed my point slightly Drew. What I'm saying is, that if sufficient people here found the word 'penis' so offensive that multiple complaints were made to Cakewalk, I'm just surprised that someone talking regularly about the subjects I mentioned didn't elicit the same response. It's the complainers that puzzle me, not Cakewalk. Cakewalk can do what they see fit, of course, it's their forum.
 
Personally, I don't get easily 'offended', I don't rate terminology by degrees of offensiveness, and am again surprised that the correct anatomical name for the male reproductive organ causes 'offense' to other people.

jamesg1213

drewfx1
I come from the school that if you frequently post stuff that might be considered "offensive" to some, then you are on thin ice. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is for a forum hosted by a business.
 
And the fact that other people might post arguably "worse" things is irrelevant. If CW thinks you are over the line it doesn't matter what they think of someone else.

You missed my point slightly Drew. What I'm saying is, that if sufficient people here found the word 'penis' so offensive that multiple complaints were made to Cakewalk, I'm just surprised that someone talking regularly about the subjects I mentioned didn't elicit the same response. It's the complainers that puzzle me, not Cakewalk. Cakewalk can do what they see fit, of course, it's their forum.
 
Personally, I don't get easily 'offended', I don't rate terminology by degrees of offensiveness, and am again surprised that the correct anatomical name for the male reproductive organ causes 'offense' to other people.

We agree completely.
 
I'm mostly concerned that encouraging the thinking that a time out like this is unfair, unjustified and arguing about how and where the lines are drawn and such is a recipe for getting a lifetime ban.

Yep. I'll have to conclude that if the complainers actually read the other stuff, they must have fainted with shock before they could hit the report abuse button.

Beagle
I had told the other hosts that I was not going to get involved with this thread, but I guess I will.
 
First of all, it was not a host who banned him, it was cake.
second of all, according to cake, he was told why he was banned, but of course cakewalk email could always be sent to a junk mail folder.
third - according to an email that I got from one of the bakers, he was only banned for a week and the reason on the ban was:   "multiple complaints RE: penis talk. 1 week ban" 
 
cake doesn't really need to explain themselves to anyone other than the one who was banned, and really they don't have to do that either.
 
it's not fair to demand answers from hosts on the actions of cake employees.  I only shared this because of all of the speculation and because some of you have said you were in contact with him and he didn't know why he was banned.
 
his ban should be up pretty soon, I don't know the exact date he was banned and we don't have access to his member information to find out.
 
 

Thanks Beagle!  As a senior admin at another forum, I'm quite familiar with dealing with bans, etc.  In this case, Steve claims (and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have any issue taking responsibility) that he neither received notice or reason for his ban.  Now he knows and he's accepted it.  Ironically, in addition to its use as a parody, he began by asking "Can I say ***** in this forum?"  Would have been a good time for someone (anyone) to just say "No." instead of not responding which leaves the impression that it's ok.
 
Whatever.  I've got to prepare to move in a week and I might have just found a house where the owner is a musician (with several VERY nice guitars)!  So I'm off to work on that.

Steve has a talking penis?!?!?!
 
Oh my.

ampfixer
Steve has a talking penis?!?!?!

 
It's not worth listening too, it's only small talk.



 

Pea talk is no small talk with the bean stalk.....