I am going to miss the Patriot fist pump.

[ScreamingMeemie]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=109787

[fishwax]

1. wow

Another long-term DUer getting the bump in these opening weeks of DU. No messing around with the TOS, apparently.

[joeybee12]

2. I wonder what happened...

Spiral's posts here were pretty tame compared to what SOME people post!!!

[MaineDem]

14. I agree. :-( n/t

[marmar]

53. No doubt.....What the hell?

nt

[madinmaryland]

3. :wtf:

[RockaFowler]

4. WTF indeed

[Ptah]

5. Too much woo woo (edit)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=109787&sub=trans

edit to add:

Chemtrails crazy talk: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002128567

[El Supremo]

6. I guess he was serious about chemtrails being real.

Or was he?

Whatever, I hope he won't be gone for good.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. I hope so too. n/t

[madinmaryland]

9. I thought spiral hawk was a she. I didn't know you could get ts'ed for talking

about chemtrails.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. I posted in H&M about it.

We'll see what happens.

[El Supremo]

16. Doesn't look good

I e-mailed skinner about it. And all I will say is that it doesn't look good.

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. It sure doesn't.

I guess we have clarification then. Although that thread got way off base with hosts making it about themselves.

[El Supremo]

11. These are verboten:

chemtrails, black helicopters, 9/11 death rays or holograms, the "New World Order," the Bilderbergers, the Illuminati, the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, alien abduction, Bigfoot, and the like

I don't even know what half of those are.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Me either.

[OKNancy]

8. I wrote something last week

or earlier, can't remember, in Help and Meta about Skinner being serious about TOS violations.
I got a few snotty responses and not much more.
I think he feels a new freedom and almost relief with the new system. The Terms of service are really clear so if you break the TOS, to bad, so sad. In DU2 the mods would dilly-dally and argue and half the time nothing would ever be done. It doesn't work like that anymore.

[WilliamPitt]

13. Wow.

[Condem]

15. Damn. Spiral gone.

That sucks.

[bluedigger]

18. Wow.

I had no idea that was a forbidden position here. I'll miss Spiralhawk. This place has definitely changed.

[trumad]

19. I had no idea it was even a problem.

I spend a lot of time in this fucking place and I gotta be honest with you, this is the first time I heard of chemtrails as a tinfoil hat problem..

Am I the only one?

[MaineDem]

20. New to me, too n/t

[OKNancy]

21. No. I've known about it

but I was a moderator for two or three years.

If anyone knows SpiralHawk or how to get in touch with him. All he would have to do is to write a nice note to Skinner and ask for posting privileges back. He would obviously have to promise not to post about chemtrails again and say he was sorry.


Edit to add:
Hey... wait a minute. Groups can now be seen by non members can't they?

Hey SpiralHawk! You out there? Write Skinner. Some people are having a conniption fit. You must have been well loved.

[trumad]

22. Oh and promise no more fist pumps.

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. I am not having a conniption fit.

Just posting a thread in H&M is a conniption fit now? Also, it went wildly off course. It had nothing to do with anything other than asking a question about woo woo threads in GD (or those having to do with them) being an invitation for some posters to think it's okay to respond with their own brand of woo. The other stuff in there looks like ongoing interpersonal issues between one or two of the hosts and the people who don't like them.

[trumad]

26. Hell I didn't even know it was called Woo Woo.

[ScreamingMeemie]

29. I just learned it was referred to as woo woo a couple of weeks ago...

...and I kind of like it. Also, I didn't know that Spiral was a woo woo person. Although it could have been tongue in cheek. Who knows? I've only ever interacted with him here, and in the Lounge.

[HuckleB]

57. Are you kidding?

That kind of woo has been a problem for years.

[El Supremo]

23. I still can't get over Hawkeye-X getting TS'd.

I met him. Elad and many other DUers during the National Convention.

When will my number come up?

[trumad]

25. Post anymore Tebow pics and it might happen.

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. I've heard his success is all a conspiracy after all...

[trumad]

28. Now that I believe..

or just a bunch of chemtrails.

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. Both are just as believable.

[El Supremo]

31. Says he with one foot in the grave already!

[trumad]

33. Dude I've had one foot in the grave for 11 years.

[madinmaryland]

41. Didn't you write a long missive a few years back saying goodbye to everyone, only

to reappear a few days later?

[ScreamingMeemie]

42. Yeah...but then again so did I.

Lots of us are guilty of that.

[trumad]

43. No....

I think I lasted a little longer than that.

This place is like crack.

[Condem]

32. Wow.

I've never met a DUer in my life.

[trumad]

34. That's cause you're the only one living in Iowa.

[Condem]

36. Here you go, tru.

&noredirect=1

[trumad]

44. Loved it

[ScreamingMeemie]

35. PassingFair is my best friend IRL. I have met a few DUers, including but not limited to

1gobluedem, progmom, LisaM, 5thGenDem (RIP), Billyskank, SharonRB, festivus etc...

[madinmaryland]

40. I've only met one DU in real life.

We adopted a cat from her. She's still around after 8 years! (the cat, too!)

[MaineDem]

46. I met a lot of DUers in 2004 at the March for Women's Lives in DC

It was awesome.

[ScreamingMeemie]

47. I was supposed to go in Septmeber of '03 for the anti-war march.

Had my ticket and everything. Ended up getting my gall bladder out instead. Meeting up with DUers is awesome for sure. Even the ones that I argue with can be nice people.

[MaineDem]

48. I agree. n/t

[madinmaryland]

50. It was Flaxbee!

[El Supremo]

45. Don't tell Happy that. n/m

[OKNancy]

37. Just to let you all know how serious they are about kooky stuff

This one was banned just now

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=117055

[ScreamingMeemie]

38. This one I agree with as the post is asking for it...

His entire exchange is woo woo to the nth degree.

[Scurrilous]

49. That sucks.

I hope he can prevail upon the admins to grant him another chance.

[OKNancy]

51. I'm just going to keep this here and not

out in the Help or Meta.

I did a search for SpiralHawk and chemtrails and there were many threads over at DU2 plus some that were on google but unavailable because of locks or deletes.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php/www/://www.leftyblogs.com/cgi-bin/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=288078&mesg_id=288078

I also noticed some people who said they never heard of them responded in some of the threads. They probably just forgot.

I still think he should ask to be let back in. I'm pretty positive Skinner would approve.

[ScreamingMeemie]

52. I hope he does.

To be honest, and because I limit my participation to here, GD, Texas, MI and WI, I had no idea that Spiral partook of the tinfoil hattiness.

[El Supremo]

54. Most of Spiralhawk's posts were over the top, but I always saw a hint of facetiousness.

But this post didn't seem to have that trait:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002128567#post10

I do think we should voice our opinions in Meta. The threads get long and very off subject, but more people see them there and even get responses from skinner.

[OKNancy]

55. When I read your subject line I thought it was going to end in mysticism

not facetiousness. I see that in some of his posts. Is he a native American?

Well, you can post in Meta, but I won't. Skinner reads here too I bet.
I don't think he needs to be needled. He has a lot on his plate and he is also
sorting through his feelings about these TOS nukes.

It will all work out if everyone keeps their head. Right now it's up to SpiralHawk anyway.

[Old and In the Way]

56. Too bad.

I read his replies and he wasn't exactly making any definitive statement on them.