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! Moderator Note I've pinned this and made the title more generic, so that all can post information on gatherings such as this, and all of the information can be kept in one spot. Announcements only, please. Any followup discussion should happen in a separate thread. In the Washington DC area, there's a monthly meeting of scientists and science communicators types, arranged through twitter. The day and location vary. You can check #DCScitweetup for the announcement.

Elshamah is suspended for repeated soapboxing/proselytizing. This may become permanent, pending further discussion among the staff.

Amanbir banned for carpet-bombing us with trollish posts.

The Architekt has been suspended a week. One hopes he spends it learning how to interact with people.

For some over-the-top outbursts, The Architekt has earned a two-day cooling-off period.

Staff consensus is that the week of July 9 be deemed to be abuse-from-Aethelwulf free. Suspended.

There is more suspended a week for trolling and rudeness.

Green Xenon has been banned for repeated violations of rule 1c (prejudice against groups)

Rich_A12 is banned for repeatedly violating the rules by neither supporting nor addressing objections to his speculations (soapboxing) and for sending an inappropriately-worded, abusive PM.

Anders Hoveland has been suspended one week for repeated racist comments and plagiarism/copyright violations.

questionposter has been suspended three days for using a sockpuppet account to give himself reputation, and for creating the new account to mask the negative reputation accrued as the previous user. The original account (steevey) has been banned.

! Moderator Note You can ask questions or hypothesize and answer, but you can't do both. Mainstream science is what's discussed in the science sections. Speculative material belongs in Speculations.

Temporocitor has been banned in response to the challenge "Ban me if you like" which garnered a sufficient number of "likes". And for a series of wholly inappropriate remarks which have been deleted.

Green Xenon is suspended for a week for repeated and persistent preaching/soapboxing

rajaksrna has been banned for continued trolling/soapboxing, after repeated warnings and a suspension.

El FiriFiri has been banned as a sockpuppet of Victor Elias Espinoza G., banned for posting the same claptrap over and over, after thread closures (the ban was not logged at the time)

And using sockpuppet accounts to evade a suspension or ban is a banning offense, so Greg Boyles is permanently banned as well.

njaohnt suspended for a week for repeated soapboxing/preaching and thread hijacking

muscledmice and PTerm banned as sockpuppets of Supermario

IronMan79 has been banned for returning from suspension and engaging in the exact same spammy, soapboxy behavior that led to the suspension in the first place.

John7362 has been suspended for divine trolling.

IronMan79 has been suspended for a week for soapboxing and advertising — quoting himself from other sites, with links, and not engaging in actual discussion.

And Queen of Wands has been suspended for 7 days for multiple rules violations, which can be summed up as trolling and plagiarism. ————— homie12 has been suspended for a week for continued refusal to present evidence in speculations threads and for plagiarism.

Dovada has been banned for the same behavior that got him suspended twice. Enough is enough. 999 has been banned as a sockpuppet.

G Anthony has been banned for continuing to hijack threads, not having learned from his suspensions that this is not acceptable.