Guys. MOG has just been given a few weeks away from the forum. Private messages from behind the scenes caused me to be worried, in all actuality about his mental health.
On the evening of 8/23, MOG started bombarding me with a crazy number of Private Messages. The content of the messages started with content like: "I want you to delete all the posts I ever made and all the threads I ever created and I want to start over." Now, despite the fact that MOG was asking me to do something that would take HOURS, Days, a lot of work, it is something we do not do. I told MOG he could delete his own posts.
By the end of a string of somewhere between 10-20 PMs that got stranger and stranger, I started suggesting he took a two week break from the forum and come back after that was over. Two weeks from the date was September 8th.
I told him, I could institute a temporary 2 week ban, that it would not reflect that he did anything wrong. It would just ensure that he stayed away from the forum for two weeks. OR, that he could stay away for 2 weeks on his own.
Now, I am in NYC. He is, as far as I am given to understand, in UK. The Private Messages were at 7pm, 8pm, 10pm, 1am, 2am 4am 6am. They were straight through the night. Now 6am my time is not so worrisome because that would be a reasonable hour where MOG is. But the PMs that were between 9pm and 3am my time were sort of concerning because they indicated to me that MOG was not sleeping. And all his PMs were agitated.
And the last PMs were him demanding that I delete posts from other members that were making comments that were quite exactly like some of the comments MOG makes to and about other people when he is baiting them.
So that is when I said he no longer had the option to take two weeks away from the forum. That he had too.
When I told him that, he kept posting. And I told him I meant it that he needed to take two weeks off.
So, then he created a second profile and began posting under a new profile. Now, that is MOG DEFINITELY, without question, breaking a forum rule. Dan can post from the Dan account and from the TableTennisDaily account. But no normal member can make a second (sock puppet) identity to post content. So, I banned the second account permanently and gave MOG a two week ban. September 8th is next Tuesday. I see nothing preventing MOG from becoming a productive member of TTDaily after the two weeks. But something was going on that night. And I felt, him spending time away from the forum was better for his health. I mean, this is table tennis. It is supposed to be fun. If you can rib someone and have fun with it, then it coming the other way really should not cause a melt down. This is supposed to be a fun and constructive community.
But, Judas, I do have to ask you, WHO ARE YOU? Your account is brand new as of today. You have the photo of MOG that he used as his profile photo. If you don't want to reveal who you are to the forum, feel free to PM me. But, I would like to be sure you are not another alternate profile from MOG.
MOG has not really done anything wrong aside from being a bit obsesses which is the purpose of cooling him off. But, if he wants to email me, I can sort out with him whether he is ready to come back sooner than September 8th. If you PM me, I can give you an email to give him for that purpose. But, if you are MOG, then I would assume September 8th is an intelligent date.
