[COLOR="red"]If you can argue without insulting people, Sarah, do it. There's no reason to insult someone on a forum, of all places.
I think the way this forum is run is brilliant. There's got to be something good going on in the mod forum, because there's no hate bannings, (I know there has to be at least one mod that fairly heavily dislikes at least one member of this forum), and you have 7, seven, SEVEN points before you get a ten day ban, then you're given a whole new chance. Start over! You get to accumulate SEVEN more points, before you're totally banned. I remember when this kid was being foolish around the Warrior forum and a bit in the old General Maple forum, and I thought I fairly well torched his ass, and I thought I'd get infracted for it..but no, I only got a warning. After that I thought to myself, "What the pineapple are these guys doing to get banned left and right? It isn't that hard to stay within the lines here."
To you.) Probably not. I've seen a lot of forums that are a lot closer to dictatorship than this one. Fiel, Isaac, Ryan, and the others aren't out of line for suggesting that we adhere to a few rules. They don't want to have to run a veritable mosh pit. If you can't argue a point without bluntly going out and calling someone a dumbass...shoo.
I think the infraction system is fine...it didn't even need to be changed. Common sense is supposed to be the first step, and that should eliminate the need for an infraction system...but apparently that isn't used here...in a lot of cases.
Edit: Sarah...you can only take situational decisions so far. Would it be fair if I wrote out a large string of cuss words directed negatively towards you and had the mods write it off because Isaac and Fiel are two of the best friends I've taken from my tenure on Maple? No. You shouldn't need situational judgement on a forum, and if you're letting someone get to you over time, ignore them, block them so you don't see their stuff, do something about it. If you let someone agitate you in more than one thread, step away for a while. At least find time to come up with a response that won't get you infracted. That's probably a forum discussion's best tool: Time. You have as long as you need to think of a witty comeback that won't get you banned. I'm sure you can think of something that doesn't involve cussing or insults in a few hours, there's no deadline on replying to whatever he/she said.
Think about something before you do it, and if you're even in doubt about whether or not it'll get you infracted, don't do it.[/B][/COLOR]
I think the way this forum is run is brilliant. There's got to be something good going on in the mod forum, because there's no hate bannings, (I know there has to be at least one mod that fairly heavily dislikes at least one member of this forum), and you have 7, seven, SEVEN points before you get a ten day ban, then you're given a whole new chance. Start over! You get to accumulate SEVEN more points, before you're totally banned. I remember when this kid was being foolish around the Warrior forum and a bit in the old General Maple forum, and I thought I fairly well torched his ass, and I thought I'd get infracted for it..but no, I only got a warning. After that I thought to myself, "What the pineapple are these guys doing to get banned left and right? It isn't that hard to stay within the lines here."
About the insulting thing...a bit of swearing inside
Fiel would never ask us to be anything but ourselves, just to slightly curtail our actions to fit to a pretty loose set of rules. If people weren't allowed to be themselves, would Alloy have Goggles? Fiel have his chinchillas everywhere? I be allowed to post in what some people call blinding red font? ( To you.) Probably not. I've seen a lot of forums that are a lot closer to dictatorship than this one. Fiel, Isaac, Ryan, and the others aren't out of line for suggesting that we adhere to a few rules. They don't want to have to run a veritable mosh pit. If you can't argue a point without bluntly going out and calling someone a dumbass...shoo.I think the infraction system is fine...it didn't even need to be changed. Common sense is supposed to be the first step, and that should eliminate the need for an infraction system...but apparently that isn't used here...in a lot of cases.
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[SIZE="7"]THESE RULES AREN'T THAT HARD TO FOLLOW.[/SIZE]Edit: Sarah...you can only take situational decisions so far. Would it be fair if I wrote out a large string of cuss words directed negatively towards you and had the mods write it off because Isaac and Fiel are two of the best friends I've taken from my tenure on Maple? No. You shouldn't need situational judgement on a forum, and if you're letting someone get to you over time, ignore them, block them so you don't see their stuff, do something about it. If you let someone agitate you in more than one thread, step away for a while. At least find time to come up with a response that won't get you infracted. That's probably a forum discussion's best tool: Time. You have as long as you need to think of a witty comeback that won't get you banned. I'm sure you can think of something that doesn't involve cussing or insults in a few hours, there's no deadline on replying to whatever he/she said.
Think about something before you do it, and if you're even in doubt about whether or not it'll get you infracted, don't do it.[/B][/COLOR]