Rule Change (New Staff Power)

[Excited Penguin]

Lube and a cactus is not an insult, don't knock it until you've tried it EP.

Well, I'm sorry, Evie, but I find it insulting. And I think it's particularly nasty to take advantage of the situation I find myself in. I am in no position to start responding in kind to this sort of statements right now, and everyone very well knows this. As a side-note, I am very thankful to those who do not resort to those kinds of rhetorical tactics of bullying and ridiculing someone.

Everyone will defend their "right" to offend except when I do it. Then it's a bannable offense.

[Losty]

I'll stop discussing it when you stop lying.


This is a lie.

I am ready to defend those statements if you can approach the conversation in a different manner.

Let's see the evidence

[Edwardo Piet]

Lube and a cactus is not an insult, don't knock it until you've tried it EP.

Well, I'm sorry, Evie, but I find it insulting. And I think it's particularly nasty to take advantage of the situation I find myself in. I am in no position to start responding in kind to this sort of statements right now, and everyone very well knows this. As a side-note, I am very thankful to those who do not resort to those kinds of rhetorical tactics of bullying and ridiculing someone.

Everyone will defend their "right" to offend except when I do it. Then it's a bannable offense.

So Losty posts pictures of lube and a cactus and you think that that's bullying?

Oh come on she's having a joke.

[Whateverist]

The analogy with the courts is very bad.

Oh it is so good to have the Pengy back. We've missed having someone to give us objective feedback on the quality of our analogies, judgement and basic fairness. Without him we would simply be a group of subjective individuals who mean well but continually stumble. Come on guys, take Pengy's arm and he'll lead us out of this darkness.[/sarcasm]

[Edwardo Piet]

I don't understand sarcasm. What's sarcasm? Is it something about a penguin with a cactus up its butt?

[thesummerqueen]

Holy crap dude, I think you are simply looking to be paranoid for no good reason.

Even in real life outside the web, courts have judges, judges often have sidebars with lawyers the gallery does not hear. Even judges can ponder a case inside chambers in private. There is no funny business going on here.

The analogy with the courts is very bad. Here you don't have the chance to defend yourself. If the staff thinks you acted badly, you're going to get banned no matter what. Are we to assume the staff is always right about everything?

Go fuck yourself.

[Excited Penguin]

Well, I'm sorry, Evie, but I find it insulting. And I think it's particularly nasty to take advantage of the situation I find myself in. I am in no position to start responding in kind to this sort of statements right now, and everyone very well knows this. As a side-note, I am very thankful to those who do not resort to those kinds of rhetorical tactics of bullying and ridiculing someone.

Everyone will defend their "right" to offend except when I do it. Then it's a bannable offense.

So Losty posts pictures of lube and a cactus and you think that that's bullying?

Oh come on she's having a joke.

I got banned for having jokes. I know for sure, for example, that at least for one joke I had I was banned.

[Edwardo Piet]

No you did not. You know jokes are not against the rules.

[Excited Penguin]

No you did not. You know jokes are not against the rules.

They can be if they are not taken as such.

[Excited Penguin]

This is exactly why I say there should be more communication involved prior to banning someone. It may not be anyone's fault, and you might all have very good intentions, but you won't know if you're wrong or not until you actually speak to the person involved and ask them what they meant by x,y and z.

I find that shoot first, ask questions later is not a very good policy. Yet it is one practiced here, in effect.

And I know I'll talk to God before I ever get anyone to admit their mistakes, that's clear as day and it's simple human nature, but I do hope to stop something from happening again in the future.