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triclino has been suspended for continual refusal to follow the spirit of the HW help section and being persistently abrasive in his responses. glyphomouni has been banned as triclino's sockpuppet account.

I was taught that "and" implied a non-integer, with the default being a decimal. One hundred and one implied 100.1, but the protocol also applied to other fractions e.g. "one and one-eighth"

ambros has been suspended for a week for repeated rude behavior, reopening a closed thread and trolling. (Normally a mod uninvolved with the exchanges would log this action, but it turns out there aren't any around. We all got sucked into the vortex.)

This is not the place for the supposed scientific predictions made by Quran/Bible/Torah/Vedas et. al.

gafferuk.ava has been banned as an oh-so-cleverly disguised sockpuppet of a previously banned user.

Galindo has been banned for repeatedly violating rule 2.8, i.e. being an insufferable troll.

gafferuk has been banned for being a sockpuppet of a previously banned user sciencemaster, too

Stop it, NOW. Personal attacks and insults will not be tolerated.

pywakit has been banned for repeated thread hijacking (reintroduction of the topic of a closed thread), repeated and persistent flaming and insults, and abuse of the PM system

Norman Albers has been banned for repeated flaming and abuse of the PM system.

spaceends has been suspended for one week for trolling

Postings here should be science news items, as the title indicates. Generally, that means including a link to a story, and a summary of some current science event/announcement. "Hello, my name is …" posts by new users that appear here will be deleted as spam, regardless of whether they contain spam links or not, and the user will be banned as a spammer.

http://federalbureauofmiscellaneousinformation.com/node?page=3 You can't just copy/paste the displayed link on SFN. If it has ellipses, it means the displayed link was shortened. Anyway, it's just a site of collected items, that are not sourced. However, there was a study, and it's mentioned here: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1143/do-cats-always-land-unharmed-on-their-feet-no-matter-how-far-they-fall along with an objection to how the statistics were collected.

dr.syntax has been banned for incessant rudeness, despite repeated opportunities to improve the civility of his exchanges, reintroduction of closed threads, and being a fountain of misinformation on a number of topics.

infinitesolid2 has been banned for recurrent trolling, including repeatedly reintroducing the topic of a thread after it had been locked.

GF has been suspended for 1 week for repeated rudeness and persistently disregarding moderator feedback.

CTD has been suspended for 1 week for repeated use of logical fallacies and creationist trolling

buddha elämuni has been banned for a repeated and persistent pattern of soapboxing and refusal to engage in discussion, i.e. trolling.

ABV has been suspended for 7 days for twice starting new threads on a topic that had been closed.

sananda has been suspended three days for repeated thread hijacking with his speculation, in violation of rules 2.5 and 2.10. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedGasparri has been banned at his own request

Bishadi has been automatically suspended for three days after repeated rules violations, including refusal to cite sources and trolling.

Schist for brains.

onequestion banned at own request. Quit before being fired.

jsaldea12 has been suspended for three days (automatic suspension for accrual of infraction points). Argument by persistent repeated assertion = trolling.

geistkie has been banned for being a not-so-subtle reincarnation of the previously-banned geistkiesel, and for exhibiting the same traits that got him banned in the first place. Repeatedly posting the same errors, at length, after being shown why they were errors (i.e. trolling/refusal to acknowledge cited information).