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RE: Rule Change (New Staff Power)
January 12, 2016 at 11:49 pm
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(January 12, 2016 at 11:31 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: [quote='Tiberius' pid='1171090' dateline='1452634456']
Quote:Hmm wonder who this person is lol.
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RE: Rule Change (New Staff Power)
January 13, 2016 at 12:03 am
(January 12, 2016 at 11:35 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: (January 12, 2016 at 10:28 pm)emjay Wrote: I think it would be a good idea if the member being considered under this rule was informed of it before it took effect and given a period of time to change their behaviour... with perhaps another vote afterwards. That way it would be responsibility of the member in question whether they got banned, because if they genuinely tried to change, the second vote would probably reflect it, and it would also feel a lot fairer for them.
I'm not a staff member but I imagine that if a person is being disruptive enough to warrant the consideration of the nuclear option by the staff that they have probably already had some warnings or interactions with the staff indicating that such an action is a possibility if their behavior doesn't change.
The staff here are not a bunch of lawless renegades out to ban everyone they don't like. I know they're not. They're very very professional and impartial, and I admire them all very much for that. I think the staff here are great and I know they wouldn't use this rule unless absolutely necessary.
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RE: Rule Change (New Staff Power)
January 13, 2016 at 12:08 am
So you guys finally found a way to get rid of me. *smiles*
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RE: Rule Change (New Staff Power)
January 13, 2016 at 12:14 am
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RE: Rule Change (New Staff Power)
January 13, 2016 at 12:23 am
(January 13, 2016 at 12:03 am)emjay Wrote: I know they're not. They're very very professional and impartial, and I admire them all very much for that. I think the staff here are great and I know they wouldn't use this rule unless absolutely necessary.
I didn't mean to imply that's what you thought I was just sharing my own thoughts and why I don't share some of the concerns that others have expressed. I've been apart of groups and forums where mods overstep their authority for petty personal reasons and I have yet to see anything of the sort here.
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RE: Rule Change (New Staff Power)
January 13, 2016 at 12:31 am
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Love you too, Judi!
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RE: Rule Change (New Staff Power)
January 13, 2016 at 12:32 am
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dbl post
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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RE: Rule Change (New Staff Power)
January 13, 2016 at 12:43 am
(January 13, 2016 at 12:23 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: (January 13, 2016 at 12:03 am)emjay Wrote: I know they're not. They're very very professional and impartial, and I admire them all very much for that. I think the staff here are great and I know they wouldn't use this rule unless absolutely necessary.
I didn't mean to imply that's what you thought I was just sharing my own thoughts and why I don't share some of the concerns that others have expressed. I've been apart of groups and forums where mods overstep their authority for petty personal reasons and I have yet to see anything of the sort here.
No problem This is the first forum I've been a long term member of so I have no basis for comparison but I continue to be very very impressed by everything I've seen here, and see no reason to ever leave this site. And like you I've never seen anything even approaching pettiness from the mods, who have shown nothing but remarkable patience and impartiality at all times and in all situations as far as I can see
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RE: Rule Change (New Staff Power)
January 13, 2016 at 1:16 am
(January 12, 2016 at 8:54 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: (January 12, 2016 at 8:12 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Conservative or not, it has been stated that staff now have the ability to ban someone for not breaking any rules.
The way I'm interpreting this new staff ability is that users who chronically come just short of breaking the rules should be able to have disciplinary action enacted upon them. They might not technically be breaking a rule but they (as I read the rules) are breaking the spirit of the rules, and flirting with breaking rules over and over can be just as damaging to a forum as full-on breaking them.
It may even be worse because the user can remain active and continue to poison the community while always being just shy of committing a bannable infraction, while someone who joins, runs rampant for a few days or weeks and gets banned is more of an easily forgotten flash in the pan.
I trust that the mods are discerning enough to use their new powers wisely.
We hope so. But there is a worry, which is why a single descenting vote is all that's necessary to derail the nuclear option.
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RE: Rule Change (New Staff Power)
January 13, 2016 at 1:17 am
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(January 13, 2016 at 12:08 am)MysticKnight Wrote: So you guys finally found a way to get rid of me. *smiles*
I think in the unlikely event such a thing were proposed, there would be a number of votes to save you.
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