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Let's stage a mod walkout! Then they'll be forced to replace us with scabs like Blutarski and MicroBob, and will come back begging after three hours or so. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Re: assani
 

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I trust you guys to know when an exception is appropriate. It's rule 2 which needs to be followed always.

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(mat sklansky, in the mod rules sticky, on out-of-forum banning.)

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The only exception is when a spammy poster has gone crazy making multiple spam posts in multiple forums.

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i think what assani did is a form of this as well.


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This place is now officially big. Lots of stuff is happening and mistakes will be made. Mistakes will also be corrected.

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sounds like a pretty hard-line decision, no leeway at all here.

i for one have screwed up much worse than yeti did, probably more than once, it came to the attention of the admins and i am still here.

Re: assani
 

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bottom line is people need to stop abusing their ability to ban users. this whole "i'm annoyed by this poster, therefore he's trolling and needs a timeout" is ludicrous and is the definition of abuse of mod "powers".


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Agree completely.


Also, when some mods discuss some poster in here and how the poster is terrible and should be banned, it reminds me of high school girls bitching about some other girl who's not in their clique. Seriously, it's beyond a joke. If someone's breaking the rules - even abritrary dumb ones - then ban or suspend them, don't try and get a little gang agreeing with you - it's silly. (Nothing wrong with asking 'Poster X did Y: Is this a ban/suspension?' - that's completely different to whining on about a poster you don't like).

It's that sort of silly cliquey crap that makes me think this forum would be better as publicly viewable, frankly (though obv not the threads moved here because their acceptability needs discussing).


FWIW, I also think Yeti did a good job as a mod, and would like to see him come back to the green sometime.

Re: assani
 

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The only exception is when a spammy poster has gone crazy making multiple spam posts in multiple forums.

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i think what assani did is a form of this as well.


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You're now trying to call his posting spam? Cmon how much of a hard-on for banning this guy do you all have?

Re: assani
 

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i think what assani did is a form of this as well.

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I just want to make this clear as an admin. What assani did does not come close to falling within that exception.

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The only exception is when a spammy poster has gone crazy making multiple spam posts in multiple forums.

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i think what assani did is a form of this as well.



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WHAT?


lol, NT, not even close.

Re: assani
 

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The only exception is when a spammy poster has gone crazy making multiple spam posts in multiple forums.

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i think what assani did is a form of this as well.


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You're now trying to call his posting spam? Cmon how much of a hard-on for banning this guy do you all have?

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Yeah, these are two different things. NT!, using your hate for Assani to make your case for Yeti - poorly, no less - isn't a good idea.

Re: assani
 

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The only exception is when a spammy poster has gone crazy making multiple spam posts in multiple forums.

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i think what assani did is a form of this as well.


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You're now trying to call his posting spam? Cmon how much of a hard-on for banning this guy do you all have?

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i think pointlessly posting [censored] for your own amusement and derailing threads with it is pretty spammy, yeah. there's a reason we have BBV.

i wouldn't ban somebody just for that, but i would definitely tell him not to do it in OOT anymore if i had seen it, and if a bunch of mods who usually think my bans are a bad idea told me to ban him, i might even do it.

Re: assani
 

anyway whether this is spam or not isn't the main point. the main point is, ryan is acting like he had no choice but to demod yeti because it was so clear cut that he broke the rules, when in fact mat's post SAYS he expects there to be mistakes made, and tells mods to use their discretion. yeti used not only his discretion but that of several other mods.

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So you're basically going to ignore my question where I ask for you to provide some sort of example of him trolling in OOT?

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no, i'll not ignore your question. unlike assani who will ignore questions about the countdown, which is basically a sophisticated troll as it effectively derails threads, but anyone who can read would have known i said this above.

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But dude, the only reason I brought it up was because prior to making my posts in this thread I went and searched through his posts in OOT since he started the countdown and these derailments you speak of didn't happen. At all. I'm not arguing that he's not a troll in other forums, hasn't trolled OOT in the past, etc, etc, just that the justification for this banning didn't happen.