Can anyone tell me why Typhoon93 is banned please?
 

I am gobsmacked, he has shown nothing but a keen interest in the RAF and hasn't done anything to deserve the detritus thrown in his direction. It's people like this that are the future of the RAF.

Just a genuine question as if one is to ban people who are none services, one might as well delete the questions about officers and aircrew joining thread, as each and everyone asking are not service personnel, present or ex.

I can suggest two reasons: May be he was a troll.

There was a very young Portuguese from Madeira who was British by birth (his parents were hotel workers in Guernsey). He was banned for his own good as he kept posing questions and ignoring answers.

How did you know he was banned?
Is there a published list of banned posters somewhere on this site ?

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Find one of his posts - there's a little gnome holding a 'Banned' sign by his name...

Look at his posts and it says "Banned!" next to it.

Looking at some of his other posts he seemed to be asking a lot of Qs on various sensitive matters. The latter was something about nuclear weapons. There are very clever people out there that tread the world of cyberspace who often aren't who they appear to be.

Luckily for me, my blithering gives me away as a Crab every time! :ok:

LJ

Thanks, I liked the guy... He was keen

His last post was in Jet Blast (detailing his views on nuclear weapons/energy) which didn't seem to be too controversial. Maybe an over enthusiastic PM to a MOD asking him to think before hitting 'submit'??

Of course, if he genuinely overstepped the mark (or let his mask slip to reveal the true person ;)) the offending post may have been deleted by the moderators already.

A tad fanciful I think Leon.
It got to the stage where everything he posted was jumped on.
He was even criticised for risking OPSEC when he posted a link to a story from the RAF website!


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Luckily for me, my blithering gives me away as a Crab every time! - Leon

Not to mention that curious sideways walk.... I said not to mention.....:D

Jack

In such matters, it is always best to defer to the Moderators.

They have more access to data, and can see the overall picture far easier than we can*.

As I was one of the adverse commentators on his posts, I now expect a flood of supportive/apologetic PMs from those who called me a bellend and a prick ... But I'm not holding my breath.

*(Former ARRSE Mod)

Tashengurt. We who are actually in the RAF are told not to advertise ops or deployments on social media. But don't just take my word for it, if you don't believe me, feel free to check the offical policy. *Edit= https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...sVersion10.pdf


The best thing would have been wait until they're safely back before posting.

I say again. It was on the friggin website!!!!!


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Seems a little cruel but there you go.

MPN11 - or do what I do, just hold the insults in credit for the next time I am being a bellend or a prick, that way everything balances out...

Why is he banned ?? Quite simply .. the bullies have won.

Or, alternatively, the Moderators made a judgement.

Anyway, not a good topic to pursue.

http://www.pprune.org/faq.php?faq=pp...ne_rules_rules

The thing is Tash, the questions he (or she) had/has been asking around the data he has mined from the website aren't on the open internet.

The one that rattled my cage was the question about whether ALL of our guys were now out of AFG. When I pressed why he needed to know, he said that it would be nice to know. Then, when I opined that he doesn't need to know then and explained that it wasn't a game, I was pilloried for being a bully!

As GR4Techie says, there are some things we just don't talk about - didn't your mum ever tell you not to talk to strangers?! :ok:

If he is who made himself out to be then I feel sorry for him, but I would suggest that some of the content he chose to comment on what was somewhat odd. There are quite a few of us on here that saw this oddness and others that percieved it differently; I'm guessing the Mods weren't a part of the latter crowd!

LJ

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This is on page 2 of the forum he seemed to get on well with everyone apart from a bit of sarcasm. Not sure without looking back if anyone actually mentioned the wannabe thread.
Tiffy posted on the NZ nuclear thread on Jetblast his last post if it was his last post looking at that thread he had a lucky escape.

Sorry, I just can't believe he was part of some espionage ring using PPrune to extract tit bits about troop movements and military doctrine.

His question re the remaining troops in Afghanistan was daft yet are we saying the enemy rely on web trawls rather than indigenous cleaners, cooks and whatever?

I tend to think he was trying a bit too hard to come across as well informed and incisive.