User talk:Eatphone

So if you want to discuss this feel free to do so on the discussion board of the page. Please refrain from deleting the posts though.

Reasons for your ban

You have been banned from RealCTY indefinitely. You are free to appeal this ban or to question the fairness of your stricter punishment, but, barring input from other admins or trusted users, I am unlikely to change my mind. It is late, and perhaps at this hour my judgment is impaired; if this is the case, I apologize for being harsh. However, I suspect it is not, but I'm sure other admins and users will let me know.

Unlike fellow edit-warriors User:Legend123, User:Heisatcty09, and User:AmericanPi, you not merely participated in an edit war, but made offensive personal attacks against fellow users. The aforementioned three users received one week bans for poor judgment concerning the deletion and/or inclusion of Hall of Fame entries, and should you desire to know why your actions were impermissible in that sense, you are free to read their pages. However, aside from the first week of your ban, the reasons for your dismissal from the site are more severe.

Perhaps you are suffering from this condition, and if that is the case, you should be aware that your "reasons for edit" comments were directed towards real people. While User:AmericanPi remained, to his credit, reasonable in terms of personal reaction throughout this conflict, including in his post on your usertalk page, you chose to flame and to offend. While that user did provoke you, he did so indirectly, while you reacted much more directly. Your level of maturity is insufficient for this community, and your choice of behavior on the Internet, and perhaps elsewhere, is far from ideal. You will find that, as a general rule, I oppose censorship, and I want you to be aware that you are not being censored. Your comments and posts will remain, forever recorded in the site's history; history is not prone to erasure. Rather, you, and not your words, are being excised from the site, which is a very different sort of action -- you always have the right to speak your mind (whatever "right" means), but your rights on this site are not limitless. In particular, they are subject to my discretion, the discretion of other admins, and the humanity of your former fellow users.

In addition to being attacks against User:AmericanPi, your comments demonstrate a negative attitude towards gays. Your choice of language needs work. CTY is (or at least it was for me, and for many other CTYers and uses here) a place of openness and tolerance, and I, along with, I'm sure, plenty of fellow CTYers, do not appreciate your attitude. Perhaps you think that it is not my place to pass political judgment here. If so, first of all, you are technically incorrect. More importantly, though, this is not a political issue, but rather an issue of respect, for people in general, but more pressingly, for your fellow CTYers.

And finally, your spelling and grammar are both atrocious. If you're going to attack other users or flame or offend, please, at least do it in an intelligent manner.

Allow me to reiterate: You are not welcome on this site, nor on this piece of the CTY community which I govern, and the choice has been made for you that you will not return.

--Max W. 01:39, 19 July 2010 (PDT)