This thread exists to discuss the political side of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. If you want to talk about the more directly military aspects then you want this thread.
Because people are being people (i.e. annoying cunts whose actions require me to do things and thus piss me off), this thread is under enhanced civility rules. While normally we don't much care about you all insulting one another or questioning the intelligence of people who post really fucking stupid posts, people in the previous thread have a history of going well beyond the acceptable and not accepting repeated instructions to knock it off.
Because of his active, consistent, and sustained investment in these threads, @Marduk doesn't get to moderate the Russia-Ukraine threads. Any of the other staff are fully authorized to hit anything that they, personally, see as uncivil with the presumption that it WILL be upheld in any theoretical appeal unless the hit is plainly unreasonable. The first hit is either a friendly warning to knock it off or a one day thread ban (at the mods discretion). The second hit is a three day thread ban. The third hit is a one month thread ban. If you manage to go beyond three hits then you are getting a long vacation in the hopes that you can find brains and/or self control somewhere where the rest of us don't have to notice your existence.
@Agent23 is banned from this thread for a month and is getting a week long vacation because he repeatedly ignored staff directives to stop with his antics and violated the civility rules. Seeing as this action is already endorsed by @LordSunhawk , appeals on it won't be entertained.
The previous thread is here and will remain locked.
Because people are being people (i.e. annoying cunts whose actions require me to do things and thus piss me off), this thread is under enhanced civility rules. While normally we don't much care about you all insulting one another or questioning the intelligence of people who post really fucking stupid posts, people in the previous thread have a history of going well beyond the acceptable and not accepting repeated instructions to knock it off.
Because of his active, consistent, and sustained investment in these threads, @Marduk doesn't get to moderate the Russia-Ukraine threads. Any of the other staff are fully authorized to hit anything that they, personally, see as uncivil with the presumption that it WILL be upheld in any theoretical appeal unless the hit is plainly unreasonable. The first hit is either a friendly warning to knock it off or a one day thread ban (at the mods discretion). The second hit is a three day thread ban. The third hit is a one month thread ban. If you manage to go beyond three hits then you are getting a long vacation in the hopes that you can find brains and/or self control somewhere where the rest of us don't have to notice your existence.
@Agent23 is banned from this thread for a month and is getting a week long vacation because he repeatedly ignored staff directives to stop with his antics and violated the civility rules. Seeing as this action is already endorsed by @LordSunhawk , appeals on it won't be entertained.
The previous thread is here and will remain locked.
