What is tombstoning? Is this what happened to Stinky Bushes posts?

[WiseButAngrySara]

What was it that was THE telling clue that he was a 'freeper' if this is the case? (I had my suspicions and told him so...he was posting so much for a newbie that proclaimed to be an ex-freeper, for example) Why did he do this and what were his motivations? Why was he asking about DUers opinions on impeachment, and urging us (almost frantically) to call Senators immediately to request impeachment of the entire B* administration? Why did he post that he was "pissed off" that FEMA was falsifying the NOLA death counts? Those are the only two issue threads that I noticed, other than his Hello and confessions threads.

Any answers, speculations etc? First freeper I've encountered ever, to my knowledge.

[alittlelark]

1. He/it reeked from the get go.

[Erika]

3. yep

[girl gone mad]

4. Yep.

I didn't reply to its posts for that reason.

[strategery blunder]

2. "Tombstoning" is the word DU uses for a site ban

I think it's an IP ban, but I'm not sure.

That said, was there one defining post or thread that warranted a tombstone? Sometimes I think DU gets just a bit too paranoid regarding newbies; I think I made a hundred posts in my first couple of days too; just to try to shake the "newbie" label and the extra suspicion that comes with.

I know I made something like 140 posts the day I entered the 700 Club, because I wanted out!

And I am almost never accused of being a freeper.:)

(Edit: I didn't know he still posted on FR. Guess that answers my question.)

[walldude]

5. I started to wonder about him

when he made his second welcome post. I think the freeps are pissed because of the post yesterday where a DU member let on that he'd been posting at FR for years. The hilarious thing was a freep pasted the thread on FR and they started hammering him like he was the DU'er. I'll see if I can find that thread...

edit-found it... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4727726

[WiseButAngrySara]

8. So he really was a freeper, and not a reformed freeper? I didn't know

that a DUer knew that he'd been posting at FR. That explains it somewhat, but surely he doesn't use the name stinky bush at FR? How can you possibly know just by usernames?

[Gman]

6. Because this goes next to your profile after you've been banned

This is now next to Stinky Bush's profile, as it well should be.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. You guys are good...

I always like to give these people a welcome anyway, just on the off chance that they might be sincere. I leave it to the experts to weed out the riff-raff. :toast:

[The Magistrate]

9. Locking

Discussion of banned member.