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blueglass2 has been placed into the mod queue for 1 year, or until he starts making sense.

Over9000 was apparently not done with his holiday, so we've extended it a further 7 days. We hope this time around that he may learn some decorum (and maybe some biology).

Tampitump has been suspended for three days for abusive behavior.

Badstuffhere has been permanently banned for abusive behaviour.

taxonomy26 has been suspended for one week following an abusive outburst.

The Angry Intellect has been banned following a number of abusive posts and PM's.

sunshaker has been suspended for 7 days following a report threatening SFN and for the combined violations of our rules against preaching, etc.

davidelkins, who has been a permanent fixture in the mod queue for a while, has been promoted!

davidelkins has been banned after a very long time in the MQ and a lot of unapproved, nonsensical posts.

Eldad Eshel has been suspended for 7 days for multiple instances of thread hijacking.

Some of you may not be aware of the mod queue feature, or have seen it mentioned but do not know what it is. It's a new toy we received in one of the last major updates a while back, which allows staff to mark all posts made by a member as unapproved until staff are able to review it. We use this for a number of reasons, usually as an alternative to suspensions. The time limit we set on these is not set in stone. We can remove it as soon as we think the issues are resolved, or if this fails to be the case, we will either extend the time frame or suspend / ban the offending person. Since we have a thread for banned and suspended users, and since we have started using this feature more in recent months, it seemed prudent to create a thread for those in the mod queue. To start things off, elizsia has been added to the queue for 21 days for spamming the forum with preachy nonsense.

conway has been suspended for 7 days for the crime of constantly attempting to reopen closed topics.

philipishin has been permanently banned after a long stint in the mod queue failed to resolve the issue of his making no sense whatsoever

Bengt E Nyman has been banned to ensure he lives up to his promise of never returning.

david345 has been banned for the constant and abusive behaviour.

Add Soldier1 to that list.

In an exciting turn of events, MWresearch has been banned permanently.

vinucube has been suspended for 6 months for repeatedly reintroducing closed topics and because they aren't around enough for a week's suspension to have any effect whatsoever.

We can add jeremyjr to the list of exiled members.

Harold Squared has been suspended for a week for his inability to carry out any discussion without resorting to fallacious arguments.

jlingaard has been suspended for a week for being a pest.

jeremyjr has been suspended for one week following his refusal to keep closed threads closed.

anne1991 was banned as yet another member of the biomart et. al. crew.

Electronic_engine has been banned as a sock puppet of yahya515.

xxx has been banned as a sock puppet for xyzt.