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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 3:26 pm
I agree with Losty, you guys shouldn't have to take shit from anyone, regardless of their length of membership.
I wish he would have been forthcoming about what was really on his mind, instead of just lashing out. We might have been able to help him, but if he chooses this route then there's nothing anyone can do.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 3:30 pm
(January 19, 2015 at 3:25 pm)Losty Wrote: Why do I feel like my point went straight over your head?
I think he's talking through the words as an 'aside' instead of reacting directly to them. People get confused when I do it too. Tangential; digression.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 3:32 pm
I wasn't following the "Pope" thread and don't know what the staff dealt with this time, but this was actually a long time coming. Fr0d0 loved to push the staff's buttons, and it seems that he almost got off on abusing the report system. He nearly got himself banned when I was a mod, and pretty much the only reason he didn't was because he was such a long-standing member.
Fr0d0 started down the road of suicide by cop many months ago. Not that it makes things any easier, but he had ample time to reflect on his behavior.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 3:35 pm
(January 19, 2015 at 3:25 pm)Losty Wrote: Why do I feel like my point went straight over your head?
It hasn't.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 3:42 pm
I didn't mean to criticise staff decision, it's just generally sad. ianap, but I can imagine situations where someone is so unbalanced emotionally that they need such a conflict in order to deal with themselves. It's weird but it happens often enough...
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 3:47 pm
I've spoken before about the old EvilBible forum and how its owner, Chris, would routinely ban people he didn't like, sometimes for good reasons but often the opposite. In the end a similar situation to this one happened there. He got into a long argument with a very popular and articulate long-standing regular, with whom he lost patience and banned. There was major uproar, everyone started protesting the decision and demanding its overturning. Chris went into total meltdown, banning everyone in sight one after another. I don't know how I survived. Those of us who weren't banned sought sanctuary at other forums, though I still popped in often. Eventually Chris shut down the forum due to lack of members.
I think it says a lot about the integrity of the people here that even distasteful decisions are arrived at fairly and accepted maturely. Banning is such sweet sorrow; as such it's absolutely the last option considered in - thankfully rare - cases like this.
Incidentally, I abstained from voting as well, after giving my recommendations.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 3:56 pm
(January 19, 2015 at 3:47 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I've spoken before about the old EvilBible forum and how its owner, Chris, would routinely ban people he didn't like, sometimes for good reasons but often the opposite. In the end a similar situation to this one happened there. He got into a long argument with a very popular and articulate long-standing regular, with whom he lost patience and banned. There was major uproar, everyone started protesting the decision and demanding its overturning. Chris went into total meltdown, banning everyone in sight one after another. I don't know how I survived. Those of us who weren't banned sought sanctuary at other forums, though I still popped in often. Eventually Chris shut down the forum due to lack of members.
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Quote:I think it says a lot about the integrity of the people here that even distasteful decisions are arrived at fairly and accepted maturely. Banning is such sweet sorrow; as such it's absolutely the last option considered in - thankfully rare - cases like this.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 3:59 pm
(January 19, 2015 at 3:42 pm)Alex K Wrote: I didn't mean to criticise staff decision, it's just generally sad. ianap, but I can imagine situations where someone is so unbalanced emotionally that they need such a conflict in order to deal with themselves. It's weird but it happens often enough...
I think I speak for the majority of staff when I say we really don't mind criticism, or this thread wouldn't be allowed to exist.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 4:03 pm
(January 19, 2015 at 3:21 pm)Napoléon Wrote: "The pope inserts foot" thread is where shit sort of went downhill but there's more than just that thread alone that factored into the decision to ban him. OK, I just read through that thread. Looks like some mods (particularly you) got butt-hurt by some things he said, but he maintained his cool throughout.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 4:05 pm
"Looks like" is not "what actually happened".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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