Hobart Bliggity Posted:

MCB, if the “rules” and the banning system were changed to state explicitly that the RP forums were subjectively modded, there would be no arguement. You guys got into trouble when you started trying to incorporate every little loophole and grey area into a well-defined rule system.

I wholeheartedly support this, because I’m comfortable with knowing that I wouldn’t be banning people for any personal reason. I’d do it for things which I think annoy the community, and only after warning. But I’d like to hear what you think about it.

As much as I like this idea, it’s going to cause so much bumhurt. There’s pretty clearly a popular crowd here. There might not be a clear-cut list of the upper crust, but there are definitely people who are more well liked and liked more universally than others. As soon as some less liked player gets banned for something a more popular player might not have, it’s going to be more trouble than it’s worth.

I think creating a forums-only ban would be a necessary change in order for this to work. I think what people are missing is that for the most part, the RP forums would remain unchanged. This change in rules would just allow the mods to (temporarily) get rid of the people the vast majority of the community find annoying and dumb. Also, the threat of being banned subjectively might make those people who are just here to annoy think twice about being annoying, or at least find a creative way to be annoying so the mods don’t get disgusted with them. It’s not like bans are going to fly fast and free under the new system, it just gives the mods more power to help the community. And, ultimately, thats what they’re here for.

There’s gonna be a warning before the ban, mind you.

would people be more comfortable in this if it was a consensus based thing? as in, if we were to say, ban nailbomb for ****ting all over the RP forums and ruining the entire day’s worth of active topics, it would only happen if agreed upon by the majority of moderators?

there are 10 of us including bingebot (RIP) so that’s a fairly large number of opinions to weigh.

Hobart Bliggity Posted:

I’d say one mod to issue the ban and one to approve it is more than enough. Provides for efficient confirmation of deserved bans and quick overturning of bs bans where a mods bias might play in.

Wow, HB is full of wisdom today.

Agreed

I would say that five modvotes are the best way to go. There is much less room for abuse, and only a little more time would be taken up.

I’m not worried about banning sprees I guess, so much as the reaction this could cause. Whenever a kind of rule is set out for something it changes how we see it. I don’t want posting to get worse just because this is the only thing we did about ****spamming.

TUBSWEETIE Posted:

really, who or what else does anyone have a problem with. it’s just those few who just **** all over EVERYTHING, ALL THE TIME.

One time Randy Beaman found a hot dog behind the fridge and was dared to eat it so he did and then he couldn’t stop pooping for 3 years.

‘k bye

_Colin Posted:

One time Randy Beaman found a hot dog behind the fridge and was dared to eat it so he did and then he couldn’t stop pooping for 3 years.

‘k bye

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cheins, i’d love to give hour long bans but it boots people out of the game entirely. i was actually planning to ban nailbomb and whoever else for an hour or two the next time i saw spam happening but i’ve been distracted with work and it also hasn’t happened

this will be a not-issue with community ban seperation