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After an outraging case of a prominent user (Ron Maimon) being suspended for more than a month (i mean, seriously?) by simply endorsing some candidate over another, i've noticed that, also, his reputation is at 1? what is up with that?

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Reputation is locked at 1 while a user is suspended. – Yannis Dec 5 '12 at 5:51
From the meta.stackoverflow faq: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/125268/… – dmckee♦ Dec 5 '12 at 13:50
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Were you around the last time this happened? – bmike Dec 5 '12 at 23:48
I'm a great admirer of Ron. I'm also a great admirer of civility. As I read the exchange, the problem is not that he endorsed anybody. It is that he directly asked a candidate if he would consider withdrawing. Maybe he was not aware that anyone might take that as an attack, and you don't get people to listen to you by attacking them or others. – Mike Dunlavey Dec 21 '12 at 0:43

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A user's reputation is set temporarily to '1' during a suspension period, after which the full reputation score will be restored and the account will continue as normal. You can read more about the process here.

Ron is welcome to comment when he returns, but as a matter of policy and respecting users' privacy, suspensions are something we handle privately with the user(s) involved. At the end of the suspension period, if Ron chooses to return as a constructive member of the site, he is welcome to return and continue unabated. As far as I'm concerned, this matter has been resolved, and I see no value in calling him out any further publicly.

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Hello Robert. Thank you for coming here. But, Ron is an amazing truly open-minded guy. He is the most brainy one contributing to Physics.SE in research-level. He has a lot of positive things in him. Why suspend him for a month? He is somewhat rude but he is still one of the best guys of Physics.SE for string theory, QM & QFT, etc. As a community manager, maybe you could request the mods here to reduce the suspension period. Most of the community members have this thought. Could you please? – Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ Dec 5 '12 at 15:04
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@CrazyBuddy I don't have good cause to reverse the action — See Do we agree with Ron's suspension. – Robert Cartaino♦ Dec 5 '12 at 15:55
Ok. Thank you for your help Robert :-) – Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ Dec 5 '12 at 16:22
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Suspension automatically sets the affected user's reputation to 1 until the suspension expires.

Other than that, we do not publicly discuss details of these actions.

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I guess that I was talking to him just before or after his suspension. Ron said:

Shog9 just suspended me from the main site. Is this ok? He did so after I continued to endorse candidates, despite the fact that he disagrees with this. Is any moderator willing to reverse him? This is an example of independent mindedness that I am looking for from a mod. The site functions best when people act as individuals not as a herd. I do not expect to be welcome here in the future, but I suppose it was nice for the year or so. This is not just a problem with Larian, I see.

Some months ago, I think he told @David Zaslavsky that he (Ron Maimon) knew he was going to be suspended or expelled from Physics Exchange.

Someone should explain what has happened to Ron Maimon.

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As I said in my answer, we do not publicly discuss suspensions. – David Zaslavsky♦ Dec 5 '12 at 7:26
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Dear @DavidZaslavsky, you said: "details". I am asking you to roughly tell us the reason. Thank you. – drake Dec 5 '12 at 7:34
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@drake David has no choice in this matter, suspensions are private beyond the reason given in the profile notice. Giving out more private information would violate the moderator agreement. This kind of information has to be made public by the suspended user himself, moderators are not allowed to do that. – Mad Scientist Dec 5 '12 at 9:48
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@MadScientist This is a catch 22 case, how can somebody who is suspended write on the site or speak in chat? – anna v Dec 5 '12 at 12:49
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@annav Suspended users can bring up their suspension on Meta or in chat after the suspension ends. They can also contact SE directly and appeal the suspension. – Yannis Dec 5 '12 at 13:37
@annav: Chat still works if he changes his parent user. – Manishearth♦ Dec 5 '12 at 15:02
@Manishearth Uh, if I'm not mistaken, that's not true. The chat suspension is a separate suspension that is invoked upon suspension on a main site. It isn't influenced by the choice of parent user. I'll double check internally but I'm pretty certain that it's not so easy to work around as that. – Grace Note♦ Dec 5 '12 at 15:09
@GraceNote I'm pretty sure it works that way (which made sense on SO, but doesn't on chat.SE). Though I'm not sure if it works retroactively, but changing the parent user before getting suspended certainly works. See also my request to change this behaviour – Mad Scientist Dec 5 '12 at 15:13
@GraceNote: He was already suspended on Skeptics, but he could participate in chat. Maybe a parent user ban becomes an automatic chat ban, but a ban on any site definitely doesn't block chat. – Manishearth♦ Dec 5 '12 at 15:16
@GraceNote: Maybe he could be alive on chat, he could come from philosophy or SO to chat in the h-bar. – Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ Dec 5 '12 at 16:25
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I just stumbled onto this whole chain. It's just sad, that's all. There are excellent people on this site, and I especially like that out-of-mainstream ideas can be heard and defended. To help this, it's important to be charitable and friendly, especially to those we disagree with. It's just sad to see such good, smart, valuable people, engaging in childish cat-fights. That's one reason I left academia. – Mike Dunlavey Dec 20 '12 at 20:06

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