Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.

[Edwardo Piet]

What purpose does the Warning serve if Staff can't even be bothered to see if members are actually displaying "undesirable behaviors" before putting them up for a ban? Seems very haphazard and reckless, to me.

Hey, when I got banned for a week I didn't even get a warning, lol.

Unless "You are going to be banned" counts.

I'd rather have had a "You are going to be banned if you don't stop".

But yeah, it doesn't really surprise me that you're getting lumped in even if you already stopped and it's being treated like you didn't. I always had faith in the Staff and I still do over Staff members on any other forum, the Staff is great here, but they're certainly far from perfect. They always wanted a voice of dissent in the Staff room and the funny thing is . . . I think they lost it. But once my ass got banned for a week (I can accept that I may have delivered enough insults to constitute flaming but the idea that I was 'trolling' is still laughable) . . . I knew that they certainly won't want me back on Staff lol.

I still can't find any posts on that thread that actually warrant a rule break. What exactly are people being told to stop? There has been no trolling and the few insults that were thrown were just a few, and it then died down but the warning got thrown in anyway... despite the fact that even a few insults is not a full series that constitutes the flaming rule (I don't think even I ever went that far, but that's debatable).

Seems like a big fuss over nothing. Probably more likely to cause than prevent things getting out of hand. Most arguments die down naturally anyway unless there's any actual full on flaming happening (I still haven't seen anywhere that there is).

Just seems really odd that such a big deal is being made out of a few insults. Since when does a few insults constitute the flaming rule? People do that over AF all the time. People don't need to be babysit just because they threw a couple of insults . . . seems kind of ridiculous and like AF is being turned into a stupid ass safe space.

A few insults or personal remarks is NOT flaming. This is getting really silly. I've seen worse happen in a game of Mafia. If I wanted a Safe Space I'd post on another site.

Kinda sucks if what makes AF feel like home is being ruined. Until recently I never had to walk on eggshells on AF but it's became very clear to me now that I'm going to have to do that now. I can only really be myself in Slack now. AF is turning into eggshell land. "NOOOOOOO HE/SHE SAID A NAUGHTY WORD TO HIM/HER! WARN THEM AND CONTINUE TO WARN THEM EVEN WHEN THEY STOP! Or just ban them and warn them after you've already decided to ban them. What did they do again? Oh yeah they said stuff that was naughty and hurt each other's little feelings. Censorship time! What? They stopped? Okay pretend they didn't anyway. They're all the same person right?".

AF never used to be like that.