2010-04-24, 04:01 AM
Blaine Wrote:[COLOR="Red"]I really don't see why the banning system is such a hot topic. I've been here for a year and eight months or so, and I've racked up a whopping three WARNINGS. Accumulating seven, fourteen, sixteen, twenty-four infraction points sounds pretty damn ridiculous to me. How hard are you people trying to get banned? I don't know if you're shooting stupidity like heroin or what, because the rules here are looser than...-...(not going to finish that simile). Fiel's been nice enough to give us more freedoms than any other forum I've ever seen to date. He continually bends and meshes the rules to make sure we don't all end up in a pile of ban s[B]hit.
To be completely honest, if you do manage to get sixteen points, you deserve to be gone for good, or at least a year. [/B][/COLOR]
Blaine's post is overflowing with so much truth, I almost don't know where to start agreeing with him.
As I read through all the replies in this topic to make sure I didn't miss anything, Blaine's post stood out to me the most. In the year and five months I've been here, I've had two infractions, and a warning, one of which would have never happened had I not completely forgotten to read the timestamp on a topic, thus resulting in a necropost. But all in all, Blaine makes the best point thusfar. Sometimes I honestly think people are picking at the R&R just for the sake of arguing. I have about fifty topics saved from samus.co.uk. I look back on said topics occasionally, especially ones that had intense moderation in them, and I think "Wow, we were stupidly strict." I even have one topic where a couple of moderators (not myself) locked a topic just because they didn't like the contents. Granted, said topics probably would have been locked here eventually too, but we could have been a lot more lenient.
I have no idea how many points it takes to get to a permanent ban, but I know one thing for sure, unless I'm just completely deranged and out of my mind, I don't ever plan on reaching whatever that limit is. And I'll be quite honest here, I've kept my nose out of all of these rule-bending threads for the sole purpose of not wanting to start a crapstorm unnecessarily. But, now, as I read through this topic specifically I really can't help but chime in and wonder, are the rules here really bothering people that much? Quite honestly, there are more things around here worth expending this much energy debating. There are always people who have problems with rules everywhere, but at some point, unless management is purely off their rocker (which they most certainly are not here at Southperry), people just need to quit making things bigger than they have to be and let management do their jobs.