Rule Change (New Staff Power)

[Thumpalumpacus]

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

A member can use ignore all he wants, but when disruptive behavior that dances artfully between the rules cause entire threads to be shat upon by one member, the ignore feature does no good, and at that point the only option is to ignore the thread, and that punishes the user who might wish to read, learn, and contribute.

I don't think one member should be able to drop the blade on an entire thread, or threads as happened recently.