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edscoble has been banned for 7 days.
This comes on the back of multiples warnings about cock photos and .gif files, and the posting of an excerpt from a porn movie yesterday.
I gave him a very strong warning, and told him not to test where the line is but to stop posting any content that involves cocks, porn, etc. Then after he'd apologised and I thought, great... no issue here, I go off to bed and he then posts in the memes thread a cartoon featuring a cock, i.e. testing the line.
The line is pretty much that whilst this is a cycling site, and off-topic things are fine within a larger context... that continually posting unsavoury things really isn't fine. This remains a community around cycling, and there are enough porn sites on the internet or places like 4chan if people feel such a need.
I hate doing this, but it seems a few people have got the wrong message. I know I'm forgiving as hell, and that I generally let most things fly... but as a metaphor for this, I'm basically like a police force that issues lots of statements but won't actually arrest anyone for anything, over time more and more people seem to think that this means that as nothing is being enforced that there are no rules and no-one needs to show consideration for others. The worst offenders then feel that they can act with impunity, and as others see that happening more and more people copy that behaviour as it seems to be the accepted one.
The real problem is that as this cycle happens, the people who are into bikes and stuff, they get tired of this, and they slowly leave the site. They're here to talk with friends and others about bikes. Not to argue, or see cock photos, or anything.
This is a place for people into bikes first and foremost, and the off-topic stuff is natural as there's only so much to be said that is on-topic. But... it's a place that is a sanctuary away from the bullshit of life, where you can just enjoy being around other people into bikes and cycling. So everyone needs to be considerate of that... the extremes that have emerged recently, of a few angry people, jackasses, and the inconsiderate jokers... that really ruins the sense of this being a sanctuary for people who love cycling and live cycling.
The answer to the question of where the line is... to those few who constantly want to find out... it's probably behind you. There's only a handful of people who seem to have an issue with being a decent human being, and whilst I may have just ignored it to date and sought to give people time to be corrected by others telling you... look, if you're going to ignore the feedback that so many people give, I probably am going to end up taking action.
Ultimately, what is the point of LFGSS? It isn't to provide a 4chan for cyclists (though that does sound tempting and fun), it is to unite people who share a love of cycling. And if your posts are detracting from that... well, just don't make those posts.