Rule Change (New Staff Power)

[thesummerqueen]

If staff have the option to permanently ban a member who has not violated any rules, then just chuck the rules book, because the staff have, essentially, just granted themselves the power to bounce anyone at any time for the most nebulous of reasons.

Boru

It's never nebulous. I was on staff here, and I manage my own group. Staff always consults and agonizes over what to do and comes to a consensus.

Usually when a person acts the way that's being described, they are harassing people in one of the most nefarious ways - the kind that can be written off, but wears you down day after day after day and makes people stop showing up. All positivity gets sucked down in their dark hole of gaslighting harassment. Ignore functions don't work.

Technically, staff had the power to ban whoever and make shit up before now. You gonna start distrusting them after a bit of transparency?

A ban is literally a click of a button, but Staff here works on quorum. That they've decided to be transparent with the new "rule" should be enough to know that they won't be abusing the power they had even before announcing it, let alone that it only takes one dissenter to shut down a ban in this case.

Yes.  They don't want to drive away users.

They want to keep users from being driven away.

This. We had people leaving because of that cunt I mentioned.