This is a new thread just for the discussion of what people should be banned for here at OT.

In the thread titled China I had responded about a graphic of a chart that I had posted in relation to the course of a debate on global warming. In the response I said:

FanFiltration said:

I would like to direct you to a great web tool that will help label and classify the "logical fallacies" employed by many of our forum members. This tool is for people such as myself that enjoy baiting, and also observing the types of debate tactics, reactions, and over reactions employed by the posters here. With this reference tool and also a bit of searching and reading over other subjects posted in the Off Topic area, you can identify and tag many members with ease. It's fun and educational. It may even help in your personal debate skills if you sometime feel the need to take one on.

http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/fallacies.html

Lord Jedi, who is another member on these forums thinks a person should be banned for saying they have admitted to "baiting" by simply using the word such as I had in the statment above. Well one of his quotes is

lordjedi said:

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I'm all for most of what's allowed here. It just seems to me that when someone admits to baiting, they deserve at least a temp ban. I guess the community here is small enough that they don't want to alienate anyone though.

Now, I do admit I do enjoy luring or "baiting" people into debate on various subjects of value and monitor their reaction on the internet, yet Lord Jedi has faild to provide any evidence of any actaul "baiting" offence I have done that has broken any OT forum policy or rules. I find his logic quite silly in fact.

Let me put it another way:
If a person admits to having smoked illegal marijuana in public, should they be arrested on the spot without evidence of actually smoking it? If so, then most of our nations greatest music talents would be behind bars.

Now, back to forum rules. What about people who hijack a thread repeatedly? Let's say for argument, on China, and they continue to pull the main subject off topic for their own personal agenda again and again? Should they get a ban? Some moderated forums don't stand for that. What do you think?

Here is an idea: Why not start a new topic about forum policy Lord Jedi, and get back to the subject of China like the rest of us had? I think we understand that you would like to have me banned due to my using the word "baiting" by your continued posting and reposting on the issue in the China thread, and also your personal interpretation of my meaning of the term as it applied to debating tactics. But, to me it almost seems that you are "baiting" members to post off subject in the China thread just to talk about your personal view of what forum policy should be. Sorry, but to me that seems a bit unfair to the person who started the topic, and also people who are posting about the subject of China. I tried to be polite and respond to questions asked to me there, but it seems that we are beating a dead horse over at that thread.

So here I am "baiting' you into a discussion on the subject of what should be Bannable Offenses in it's very own spanking new thread.

I welcome anyone to post what they feel should be a Bannable Offense right here.

P.S. I smoked pot.