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Marky Millarky; who got banned and why

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21:36 / 05.02.03

anyone been banned from a forum for disagreeing with the creator of said site?

was it millarworld?

if yes, can we hear more?

if no, can we hear more?

Graeme McMillan

21:45 / 05.02.03

Oooh! Me! Me!

Can I be interviewed as if I was on Parkinson, please?

22:25 / 05.02.03

I got banned from the official Simpsons forum after a rather negative tirade concerning "Worst Episode Ever." Like many activists, I was censored by the powers-that-be (much like Gandhi or Jesus). But I showed them...I showed them all....

But that's irrelivant, innit?

22:34 / 05.02.03

One of MillarWorld's more trigger-happy mods obliquely threatened me with banning...

Because I was taking the piss out of him.

But, no.

Graeme McMillan

23:14 / 05.02.03

Duncan - which one?

When I did the fake "Chair" thing, I got threatened by three different mods, completely seperately. One even went so far as to write something along the lines of "I'd watch what you say to certain people, or we can make your life more difficult", which was hilarious.

Graeme McMillan

23:15 / 05.02.03

And surely there are people here who got banned from the WEF?

00:00 / 06.02.03

Tegler.

He tried to 'out-educate' me. Ended up quoting Joyce to thin air - very good.

00:03 / 06.02.03

I really don't like the heavy-handedness, and occasionally threatening behaviour of one or two of the mods there.

WEF was before my internet-time, but some MW mods are 'graduates' from there, yeah?

Graeme McMillan

00:07 / 06.02.03

Keravin and Jen at least, I think. Maybe some more.

I lurked on WEF more than posting, because everytime I did post, I'd inevitably get in an argument. And usually with Nick Locking, for some reason.

00:13 / 06.02.03

Because he's a twat.

Graeme McMillan

00:15 / 06.02.03

Well, I wouldn't say that...

Okay, I would.

00:23 / 06.02.03

Who's Nick Locking? Why's he a twat?

Btw, are you named after that grenade Smile? It's odd reading 'Say You Want a Revolution' with all these words - Smile, Ganesh, etc. becoming so numinous.

Graeme McMillan

00:26 / 06.02.03

Not that grenade, but probably the inspiration behind it.

Well, that and the lost Beach Boys album and the good Quasi song.

And Nick Locking is unexplainable, but oddly enough, rather like Mark Millar's (non)-persona.

00:30 / 06.02.03

Would I like him? Just looked for the WEF which used to be available as a readable thingmy, but it seems to be gone altogether now.

Graeme McMillan

01:40 / 06.02.03

Would you like him? Depends on your position on the Transformers and how much you find this one of the more punchable faces in the world:

01:56 / 06.02.03

Ooh, punchable...

I really liked Transformers when I was young. I've got all the Marvel UK ones from #79 or so. It ended at #332, I think. Sometimes, I watch the movie and make up bullshit Lit. Crit. interpretations of it for fun (Megatron's Faustian pact, capitalist/socialist dynamics as expressed by giant robots, etc.)

I do not know how this sits with Nick 'the hair' Locking.

02:06 / 06.02.03

Jesus, that Locking fella's the dead spit of a guy who used to be in The Worst Band In Preston (TM) a few years back. Punchable? He'd make a Buddhist join the Inner City Firm.

NDD

Andrew C*** passing himself of as Haus

02:39 / 06.02.03

I got booted off WEF about, ooh...twenty times, because I told Ellis he was an aging fat ubergeek and because I impersonated him and stuff...

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:54 / 06.02.03

You know, I FUCKING HATE the way nobody is getting a right to reply here. Shouldn't somebody be steaming over to Millarworld with a link to his thread?

(Knodge - you also sent him a video of your film, asking him to send it on to Grant Morrison with a view to future collaboration and being best friends. Let's not get out of hand with the whole Zapata thing, eh?)

12:28 / 06.02.03

I tenmd to be even ruder and more flippant on Delphi than here, because I haven't got as much invested with the people—the sense of community isn't as tight.

I got gagged on the WEF shortly before it closed, for suggesting (one day when Ellis was moaning that the day of its closing couldn't come soon enough for him) that he should just shut up and close it already, right then 'n' there, instead of waiting for the appointed day.

I also got booted off the V, the forum of the aforementioned Nick Locking, for saying inflammatory things about grown-ups who read Harry Potter—not just gagged, but actually banned. Which surprises me, because the level of piss-taking at the V is generally quite high and ruthless. Some people just love their Harry Potter, I guess.

Graeme McMillan

12:52 / 06.02.03

Jack - I occasionally lurk on the V (I have no idea why, I admit), and they were talking about your ban recently, in terms of "he's the only person we banned, because he was being utterly unreasonable". It's surreal to discover why you were actually banned; slagging off adults reading Harry Potter is being utterly unreasonable?

Hmm.

12:55 / 06.02.03

Well, it was more the way I was doing it... I was, as I am wont to do, amping up my natural grumpiness for black-comic effect: I believe the words "shower of cunts" were involved...

13:11 / 06.02.03

JohnnyYen: What was the worst band in Preston? I might have been in it.

16:57 / 06.02.03

Haus - why are you being a cock to me, baby? I do not like it.

ONLY NICE THINGS

17:05 / 06.02.03

Why does everybody take themselves so seriously around here? I olly polly love oo, Duncan, really I do. I just see all sorts of double standards bouncing around here, is all...

Honestly, if it weren't for my loving relationship with Xoc, my deliciously cosy leather trousers and my lovely flat in South London, I think I'd despair of humanity.

Oh, hang on. Shit.

17:15 / 06.02.03

Ahhh... that's better. What were we talking about, cock-boy?

18:23 / 06.02.03

God, one minute you're tucked under the Harry Potter duvet with two of 'em and the next minute they've both fucked off to go online.

Wish I'd been banned from somewhere now. Guess I'm too bland and inoffensive. I did get thrown out of Nôtre Dame once but I did have it coming.

18:37 / 06.02.03

I didn't even manage to get banned from CBBS. How crap is that?

I'm far more rude on F2B than anywhere else, but you can't actually get banned from there. The regulars are more offensive than any trolls so it's almost impossible to troll the place.

I feel the need to get banned from somewhere, now.

19:36 / 06.02.03

I nearly got banned from the freerepublic, and ultra-conservative bbs I briefly surfed once, but due to the general blandness and niceness of my posts, I got off with an offer to join a libertarian forum. Not sure if that counts.

05:12 / 07.02.03

I got suspended from The DC boards for a few weeks once. They had a Preacher board, and everyone pretty much gets along in there, discusiing Preacher. One day this kid (maybe he was an adult, I hope not) posts a message in the room saying that Garth Ennis and all the readers of Preacher were going to Hell. It's just this ranting and raving fire and brimstone post. Well, everyone went crazy. Insult after insult was heaped upon this guy. So does he defend his opinion? Naw, he goes to the Superman room, gets some artist (Mike Miller. Mike Miller's a Jesus Freak who got into arguments over stuff like Kryptonian magic being too occult, and as a Christian he didn't feel comfortable drawing stuff like that. Eventually they booted his ass, but it was like 2 yrs after this whole Preacher thing) to come in to the Preacher room and start insulting us for picking on a Christian, and saying Garth Ennis had serious problems he'd have to answer for in the afterlife. Again, everyone went apeshit on Mike, and the thread was closed. I was pissed, so I called Mike out on the Superman board, the thread was deleted, and I was warned. Then I got really pissed and started a thread in just about every room insulting Rob Kamphausen's mother (sorry Rob) and Mike Miller. Curse words don't register at the DC Boards, but the word CUNT came out fine. I was banned for about a month.

13:15 / 07.02.03

Rob Kamphausen is apparently a bit of a conservative asshole, who banned someone I know for, as they put it, PWG (Posting While Gay.)

A version of said poster's boyfriend's problem with American traffic police, who often pulled him over for DWB (Driving While Black.)

On another note: Ganeshaus tag-action! I'm afraid, yet strangely honoured.

14:00 / 07.02.03

Strangely aroused, surely...?

14:39 / 07.02.03

All of the above!

And crying as well.

14:42 / 07.02.03

Crying and wanking.

Enter...the abyss.

22:40 / 09.02.03

I got banned from the WEF when Ellis thought I called him a sociopath. Which I did in a roundabout sort of way.

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