2009-07-22, 09:49 PM
Stereo Wrote:Making it an infraction just means instead of seeing "2 point: Flaming" they see "2 point: Forum Bashing" and know exactly what they did wrong. The same people are still moderating with the same set of rules, they're just making it clearer what is wrong.
Yes, by doing that now, they are making the abuser know exactly what they did wrong. They didn't make the abuser know that this was wrong in the past, which makes it a new infraction. By making the rules clearer mean that the policy wasn't defined to begin with, therefore it didn't exist.
Be that as it may, even though the moderators felt this was an issue in the past, it is defined now, and hopefully won't be an issue in the future.