Rule Change (New Staff Power)

[Napoléon]

The issue (from my point of view) isn't anything to do with whether or not the staff would use different powers to ban someone.

For me it's the principle of having a bunch of rules, and still saying you can ban people even when they don't break them. Again, don't get caught up on if staff decide to abuse such power (that they already have). I know for a fact this would never happen and I, like SC, doubt this new "power" would ever be used.

It's just the principle. And in my view, from spending a fair amount of time on staff myself, I know that users can be banned even when skirting the rules, not because we need to invent some nuclear option, but because the staff can already agree if someone is causing negativity to the point where it becomes a disruption, within the remit of the existing rules.

I don't know what situation has arisen recently to make staff want to have this nuclear option, but I really don't see the point in it.

Like I said though, in the grand scheme of things it'll probably never be used. But coming back to the principle of it, it seems a little silly to me.