Rule Change (New Staff Power)

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Conservative or not, it has been stated that staff now have the ability to ban someone for not breaking any rules.

I'm fully aware of the nature and purpose of the rules, but you miss my point.  As you say, the rulebook is there to benefit the users of the Forum.  But the common penalty for violating rules is (ultimately) a permanent ban.  So, if you can ban people who don't break rules, then there seems no real point in having the rules in the first place.

By and large, the members here are adults (emotionally, if sometimes not legally) who all know how to use the ignore function.  It seems pointless to give staff the power to do something the members can do for themselves.

Boru

When you have a poster who keeps insulting everyone, in nearly every thread he/she enters...it just brings the forum down, when the person is just left to keep trashing perfectly good topics. It strikes me as this will only be 'enforced' if the person is a chronic problem. The ignore feature only goes so far. lol

My point is that it goes far enough.

Boru