Black hole observed!

[Dave Hicks]

The moderation was supposed to be until you cooled down about whatever it was this time. I thought I had already removed the posts that offended you, but apparently that wasn't sufficient or you didn't notice. Originally it was going to be for 12 hours but that time also appears to be insufficient. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

I do agree that needing to keep a lid on a member's outbursts is unpleasant. Unfortunately it is not news. It's happened around 3 times before in the 17 years of this forum. (Only one of those is still banned.) This particular case has been allowed to go on for longer than any of those largely because I now have 3 moderators and thus can spread the unpleasantness around. (Though all of them are tired of it now.)

BTW if I had been following our standard warning/point system, you could have gotten yourself banned last night. I would have never imagined that that could happen when I set it up. No other member has ever come close to it - indeed far less than 1% of members have ever received a warning, and no other member has received more than one warning! But I could tell that you were upset and not thinking clearly, so I just cleaned up after you and assigned a single warning for the whole affair. Obviously I'm not trying to kick you off the forum, but I am trying to keep it comfortable for most users and almost entirely about calculators.