Yes, I thought that one disappeared a bit quick!
Way heavy-handed, G.
That thread wasn't harassment...it raised a very salient point and focused on a particularly vile, abusive outburst from another member. I've seen people banned from this site for less. If nothing else, it served as a notice to other members what a nasty fuckwad Symphonic is.
This is the sort of irrational moderator action that has exasperated members here in the past.
I've seen people banned from this site for less.
Way heavy-handed, G.
That thread wasn't harassment...it raised a very salient point and focused on a particularly vile, abusive outburst from another member. I've seen people banned from this site for less. If nothing else, it served as a notice to other members what a nasty fuckwad Symphonic is.
This is the sort of irrational moderator action that has exasperated members here in the past.
I certainly agree with this bit of your post. As far as I can work out I got a week's* timeout for calling someone an asshole and telling him to shove his head up his own ass. Very mild in comparison the vile comment in question (which I reported myself - believing the mods needed to know about it at a minimum).
Well, that was a special circumstance. An explanation was given for it, satisfying or not.
* With time off for boning behaviour by the rest of the board while we were gone :tongue:
I don't see how it was a special circumstance at all
It had never happened before. I'm hoping it never happens again.By a majority vote of the moderating staff, we have issued seven-day suspensions for an unprecedented and large number of members, in response to interpersonal conflicts that escalated to the point of having violated section III of the LPSG Terms of Service.
We recognize that not all of the affected members were involved to an equal extent. We discussed -- passionately and at length -- the idea of meting out differing sanctions for different levels of involvement. We concluded that it would be impossible to make a fair determination, and even more impossible to make a determination that was accepted as fair by all parties involved.
OK I don't see why we should beat each other up when someone else is being the asswipe here.
Self defense is an acceptable excuse in all circumstances. I appreciate that Mods need sleep (seems some are still in a coma though :biggrin1 but the lovely Symphonic crossed every line of decency when some of us were wide awake. What are we supposed to do? Let him carry on until the world spins in your direction?
Twit.
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I still think that harassment or no, it is a fair form of defense.