(March 28, 2015 at 2:32 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Nothing serious was going to happen with Drich until he decided to bomb the reporting system with a bunch of frivolous reports that we *still* have yet to finish processing. Whether the reports seem frivolous or not, we have a process to go through and it takes time.
This was done apparently in retaliation for speedbumping the thread, something that is done as standard practice when more than one people are letting the thread get out of control.
I might also add that even the reason Drich fell afoul of the speedbump was his own fault; he got pissy because we apparently weren't taking into account the fact that he reads and responds to threads chronologically, and wasn't seeing the speedbumps despite the fact that the newest posts in any thread are always located directly below the text box for a new post, every time we make one.
So, the actual order of events was that we dealt with the situation and requested the thread get back on track, Drich responds in a poorly managed way, gets angry at us for not kowtowing to his evidently ineffective method and his refusal to modulate it even when it was clearly necessary- as if ignorance of the rules has ever been a justification for breaking them in the past - and then attacked the staff out of some petty need for revenge because we wouldn't cover for his own inadequate forum etiquette. I wasn't even involved in the decision, as I was off being with my wife at the time, so I have no stake to defend in this issue, but even I can't see what else we were supposed to do, at that point.
I also find this accusation of moderation by popularity offensive because the last high profile ban we handed down clearly shows how inaccurate a claim that is; do we really have to go back and see how many chances Frodo got, despite his growing unpopularity among the mod staff?
Losty, you know I think you're the bees knees, but you're flat out wrong on this issue.
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