RE: Rule Change (New Staff Power)
January 24, 2016 at 7:32 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2016 at 7:32 pm by Cyberman.)
(January 23, 2016 at 1:41 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: The analogy with the courts is very bad. Here you don't have the chance to defend yourself. If the staff thinks you acted badly, you're going to get banned no matter what. Are we to assume the staff is always right about everything?
The fundamental difference between the system we have and a court system is that in the latter, all the necessary evidence has to be presented and a case put before the appointed panel of arbiters, none of whom were actually present at the time the alleged crime was committed. Here, everything is recorded for all to see, and Staff have means of investigating behind the scenes at a level inaccessible to grasroots members. There's no room or need for debate about whether the shots came from a sixth-floor window or the grassy knoll; anyone can simply scroll back and see the crime take place.
And stop acting like banning is the only option we have. I can literally call up two dozen reports since xmas and out of the forty-four bans in that time, forty of them were spambots. There remaining four were legitimate members banned for specific legitimate reasons; and one of them is now back among us. So basically, three actual bans and one timeout as a result of all the reports in the span of one month.
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