craigb
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.
As you point out there are many things that go on which a lot of users (including hosts, especially in a forum as large as this one) know nothing about. And as has been pointed out, things are never "even" in the world of moderation.
Not long after I became a host, I was reprimanded by cake for my involvement in Coffee House threads with "toilet humor." I was asked to remove my posts which had said toilet humor in them.
Probably a lot of us would think toilet humor would not be cause for anyone to take offense, however, it offended someone so much that he (maybe she, IDK for certain, but I have a very strong suspicion who did it) emailed Henry Juszkiewicz (CEO of Gibson) and complained about said potty humor in the forum which belongs wholly to Gibson. Apparently Henry himself did read said email and flowed down the directive that his company will not have such inappropriateness in something which represents his company (I am not complaining about the consequences, the company or anything involving this situation - I'm merely stating facts).
If toilet humor can offend someone enough to email the CEO of Gibson and get real verifiable ACTION, then "penis talk" getting someone banned for a week should not surprise anyone.
I am 99.9% certain none of you here today knew about this (including the hosts). It is very likely that the person who "turned me in" won't even read this because I haven't seen the person I suspect did that on these forums in a long time.
but this is also ONE of the reasons I don't participate in the Coffee House humor as much as I used to in the past.