RE: Rule Change (New Staff Power)
January 14, 2016 at 3:04 pm
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2016 at 3:06 pm by Napoléon.)
(January 14, 2016 at 12:52 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: But the insults they meted out, and the breast-beating they engaged in, and the consistent and clearly deliberate derailing of threads... And it didn't fall under the rubric of trolling
I'm sorry, but if it's as obvious and as disruptive as you reckon, then it absolutely does fall under the rubric of trolling and the staff can absolutely determine that.
I was on staff, I know for a fact we've banned members in the past (after much deliberation to be sure), for exactly the things you describe, without the need of some 'nuclear option' that completely undermines the existing rules.
The staff have said they couldn't amend the existing rules? Why? Just put a disclaimer in there that those deemed to not be following or flagrantly flouting the 'spirit of the rules' can be banned, and treated as rule breakers. The whole notion of saying "we can ban people who follow the rules", surely, undermines the rules in the first place?