JeffreyAaron says

JeffreyAaron says

Current completely f**ked up admin opinion: "In the past the precedent was set that we won't give someone two vios for breaking two rules, but rather just one and a slap on the wrist for the other, therefore we will continue to follow this terrible precedent."

Or, better option:

"A user is harassing other users and using hateful comments, in the past this would be one violation, but we as a mod team believe that this was a bad precedent and we want to stop this kind of behavior so we will now punish both rules being broken rather than one."

Is this really that difficult?

I'll pose this to you without red text, Edark. I'd like a response to this. Why is option two bad?

Im having trouble keeping up with all the posts, but here goes. I think you're misunderstanding what actually happend so let me tell you in chronological order what took place:

Mist insulted thecolonel regarding him being unfunny or something silly and they had some banter. Thecolonel went quite overboard and as a moderator mist instantly forumsuspended him and told him to stop, aka gave out a verbal warning.

When his ban ran out he just made that huge thread about transsexuals and got an harassment violation for that.

What people now want is that I will give out an additional HC violation(or ban him but that wont happend) since thecolonel. As I've stated earlier you're only supposed to get 1 violation per instance(as in games you either get trolling or GT, not both or when you call someone a f*ggot multiple times even after they asked you get an harassment violation instead of HC.) which is why Im hesistant to dish out a second violation.

edark i propose a compromise:


publicly reveal the main of thecolonel and i will do something that will cause the community to forget about this whole thing for at least a day or two

VS9102 says

i wouldnt even bother jeffrey. edark is proving that he cares little for the community and just wants to keep his position by not flexing his adminly muscles in ways that could lose him brownie points with lucid

What? If anything this would cause me to lose "brownie points" with lucid.

i wouldnt even bother jeffrey. edark is proving that he cares little for the community and just wants to keep his position by not flexing his adminly muscles in ways that could lose him brownie points with lucid

JeffreyAaron says

Current completely f**ked up admin opinion: "In the past the precedent was set that we won't give someone two vios for breaking two rules, but rather just one and a slap on the wrist for the other, therefore we will continue to follow this terrible precedent."

Or, better option:

"A user is harassing other users and using hateful comments, in the past this would be one violation, but we as a mod team believe that this was a bad precedent and we want to stop this kind of behavior so we will now punish both rules being broken rather than one."

Is this really that difficult?

I'll pose this to you without red text, Edark. I'd like a response to this. Why is option two bad?

Retti says

every time i hear the word 'community' in any argument against the mods i really wanna spittake. two or three people mad about the mods/admin for doing something isn't a community, it's just two or three people. did not realize you suddenly speak for the people if you disagree with a mod decision lol

so are you here arguing that thecolonel is a nice addition to the site and we shouldnt care that he's free to post again and upset yet more people just for laughs while admins do nothing about it bc lol roolz

Edark says

ScubaSteve says

Edark says

Scubasteve do you want me to outright ban thecolonel?

Based on user history and the apparent unwillingness to find any semblance of self-control when it comes to attacking people, I absolutely would and I wouldn't think twice about it.

If they were a new user who did it once, got forum suspended for it, and made a conscious effort to either avoid the topic of conversation or just stopped being an as.shole about it, then the couple violations and a 48 hour forum break would be more than sufficient. Alas, the latter's not the case here.

I see. I can safely say that I wont yolo ban people tho.

Again, also fair. I'm an old man and I don't have the patience for people who do stuff like this anymore. That's also why I never wanted to be in your shoes, because due to my running a Tight Ship, I'd probably lose what little hair I have left because of all the whining and complaining I'd here from users like sonseray, ian, meetterry and that one obnoxious sandbox clique, etc., if I just started banning people for being terrible after a couple warnings to shut their mouths.

every time i hear the word 'community' in any argument against the mods i really wanna spittake. two or three people mad about the mods/admin for doing something isn't a community, it's just two or three people. did not realize you suddenly speak for the people if you disagree with a mod decision lol

ScubaSteve says

Edark says

Scubasteve do you want me to outright ban thecolonel?

Based on user history and the apparent unwillingness to find any semblance of self-control when it comes to attacking people, I absolutely would and I wouldn't think twice about it.

If they were a new user who did it once, got forum suspended for it, and made a conscious effort to either avoid the topic of conversation or just stopped being an as.shole about it, then the couple violations and a 48 hour forum break would be more than sufficient. Alas, the latter's not the case here.

I see. I can safely say that I wont yolo ban people tho.

Current completely f**ked up admin opinion: "In the past the precedent was set that we won't give someone two vios for breaking two rules, but rather just one and a slap on the wrist for the other, therefore we will continue to follow this terrible precedent."

Or, better option:

"A user is harassing other users and using hateful comments, in the past this would be one violation, but we as a mod team believe that this was a bad precedent and we want to stop this kind of behavior so we will now punish both rules being broken rather than one."

Is this really that difficult?

Retti says

edark i think you should do what you think is right cause you're the admin, and then just be done with it

that's not me arguing for either side, i think colonel is an a$$ and i wouldnt cry if anything happened either way, i just think you're gonna end up like Jasper did trying too hard to appeal with a ""community"" literally never happy lmao

Im just here arguing my point, I think if you cant defend your own opinion then you dont have an opinion worth defending.

Considering the community contains many different individuals every case thats is hard to judge will make a few happy and the rest unhappy. In the end I just gotta do what I think is right.

Edark says

Scubasteve do you want me to outright ban thecolonel?

Based on user history and the apparent unwillingness to find any semblance of self-control when it comes to attacking people, I absolutely would and I wouldn't think twice about it.

If they were a new user who did it once, got forum suspended for it, and made a conscious effort to either avoid the topic of conversation or just stopped being an as.shole about it, then the couple violations and a 48 hour forum break would be more than sufficient. Alas, the latter's not the case here.