notyou2 wrote:You're recent ban BBS, in my opinion, was justified. However, I believe there have been many warnings and bans that weren't justified. I agree the rules and interpretation of them could certainly be clarified and have not been imposed equally in the past.
I guess. I can't see how people perceive the line between acceptable and unacceptable, and that ban still doesn't make that clear. Furthermore, MeDeFe can't even explain that fine line and its ever-changing circumstances. And, those perceptions are subject to change on even the most minute circumstances (e.g. Rds is more sensitive to the use of words like "faggot" and "muslims = X").
Another problem is that I'm a reactive kind of guy. If I see someone causing a bunch of shit, then I'll dash it back at them (e.g. Symmetry). Obviously, Symmetry didn't like that and put on some great theatrics/hysterics, so I got banned for it. So now what?
(1) Should I be an ass and report every instance of him breaking a rule? Pimpdave did that (and most of his reports may have been spurious), but either way, this annoyed the mods, thus contributing to their bias against him (mods aren't impartial).
So what do?
(2) Make a thread showing instances where particular users are baiting, flaming, trolling (the holy trinity)?
Then I may get banned for calling people out on... breaking the rules? (seems likely anyway given that some are effective at theatrics).
(3) Then there's the whole problem of formal and informal rules. Most of us in here have baited, flamed, trolled within the past 3 days, and to me that's not a problem---as long as the frequency is minimal and intentions are good (i.e. the accusations are baseless).
Etc., etc,.