When banning someone from a community, it's a good idea to make sure you've actually banned them.
abandonedplaces is a community for taking photographs of... well. Abandoned places. rhodamine is a frequent poster on said community, and somewhat infamous for not always posting things that are necessarily abandoned.

It all started a few days ago when cymbal_rush took it upon themselves to express a very strong opinion of rhodamine by making a new post to the community: "Dear rhodamine,

This community is dedicated to "abandoned places", not "random pictures I took while walking around on railway tracks in the boroughs". You have this habit of posting solitary pictures of things that clearly aren't of abandoned places, and always with a link to a particular external web site that merely re-displays the whole photo. You're clearly not here on Livejournal to do anything other than drive traffic to a web site you co-own (I mean, that's all you use Wikipedia for, too, right?), and I'm positive that I'm not the only one here that is getting tired of your spamming. So please, knock it off.

For a sense of what we're collectively interested in around here, have a look at the recent amazing posts by shktgun, villy_barankin, dedushka_nomto, seventreehouses, and many others."

There's both agreement and displeasure that cymbal_rush chose to use this public avenue to express their opinion, but the accused does not make an appearance. A day afterwards the mod of the community, jj_maccrimmon, makes a post announcing rhodamine has been banned and locks comments.

However, the REAL fun starts shortly after when poindexter makes a post to the community simply saying "It's been fun!" with the header 'Bye!'.



Needless to say, this goes over like gangbusters. There are macros and snarking aplenty!

liquidwhite: "What, do you mean that you're actually offended by an entire community embracing lynch mob mentality to cull a member?"
rhodamine: "the funniest part is that, amidst all his lynch-mob mentality, the mod forgot to actually ban me. imagine that!"

OOPS.

carriepika and quantam_soul have a disagreement that boils down to 'Well you're a furry so your opinion doesn't count!'. Bolding mine:

quantam_soul: "I'm sorry, but I cannot take anything seriously from a furry. I've done my research on them for psychology. And ew. But, this does explain why you wanted to be in on the drama. Go get in your costume and suck your thumb. You'll feel better. This community is not normally dramatic. We just had a drama whore come in and it got the others stirred up. The more drama whores that leave, the better off we'll be again."

Who knew abandoned buildings could be so wanky?

ETA: And now rhodamine's comments on the post have been deleted.