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I don't know that flies in the face of it's easier to ask for forgiveness than get permission.
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Difficult to ask forgiveness however if the general population has nuked the account.
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Only a crappy community would nuke an account with that longevity for breaking a rule of that degree.
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Why? If someone has been here that long, then they presumably know how we feel about spam, plagiarism, and so forth.
If they feel they have been hard-done-by, they can appeal to the Hamsters who can reinstate the account (As happened with one member several times on the same weekend).
If they have been hacked, then we nuke the account which stops the hacker, and the legitimate user can appeal and change his password.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Why? Because there are always gray areas and exceptions. A community should be better than that.
There's a significant difference between nuking an account and punitive action like preventing further posts for a time, etc.
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If the site owner allows users to nuke accounts, that is his business.
If we don't like it, we are free to go elsewhere; if we like it, we stay.
His site - his rules.
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Thank you Captain Obvious
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Nuking is the only option we are given: we don't want the spam, so we use the tools at our disposal. The "full Monty" nuke is only applied by the Hamsters, so any nuke we apply doesn't destroy articles, posts and so forth - but it does prevent spammers from continuing. Good enough for me.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: If they feel they have been hard-done-by, they can appeal to the Hamsters who can reinstate the account (As happened with one member several times on the same weekend).
Fckn great bloke him.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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There's no point in us asking him to forgive us for that, then?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So I decided to set up a Windows 10 VM...Went to download...Registered my options...and...boooooom!!!
Microsoft asked me to INSTALL an exe to speed up my download!!!
Are you insane Microsoft?! What wrong with the normal way of downloading - it is only a 4GB file!!!
But the best part is that the visual feedback is a small bar on top of the page, so even the download done by an external application you can not close the page...
I feel sick - have to have some ice cream...and a few kilo of chocolate...and some more angry icons...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Careful, it might install chrome as your default browser.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Chrome IS my default browser...
And to add to my pain after almost a hour it's still on 48%!!! 4GB! What a wonderful downloader Microsoft gave me!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Microsoft gave me
They gave it to you... now it's your turn to pass it to someone else... Not me of course... 
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Much like syphilis, the gift that keeps on giving.
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Your little sentence says so much about M$. (+)
And, of course, when one catches aforesaid malady, it's because one got f***ed.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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There's a bloody moggy that keeps leaving 'presents' in our garden. Me thinks circle + water cannon may be called for...
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Don't suppose you've bought the house next to mine for some nefarious reason?
All I've been told is that the buyer is a man and likes to drink gin.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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As far as I know, I haven't bought any houses recently. 
But we are off North next week to look at some, but they're more in Yoda Country.
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Bloody southerners, coming up here, taking our ____________
*No idea how to tag this - it's a joke question.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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They can take our Cauliflowers, but they will never take our freedom.
Freeeeeddooooooooooooooommmmmm!!!!!!!!
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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They'd nick you're vests. If you actually wore any. 
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Got so cold last night I almost had to put a thicker t-shirt on....
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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