Lester Burnham Posted:
You know, I realize this was a rather excessive display and many players caught “submission fever”, but I see joke forums, logos and styles submitted all the time. I’ve never heard of anyone getting banned for submitting something like that.
I’ve also seen duplicate submissions made. Usually I will see that a logo or forum is nearing being voted off and suddenly it will be resubmitted – both submissions are active at the same time. Has this duplicating always been illegal?
I guess it seems odd to me. Is it actually fair to ban people for things without having rules in place first? Log in to see images!
A joke submission is fine once in a while. Inadvertent dupes can be forgiven, too. People don’t generally complain about those.
What happened here was deliberately very disruptive. There is also evidence of vote collusion. Finally, we have banned for duplicate entries before, and it’s clearly written in our rules.
In Johnny’s case, I’ll admit it’s a bit like charging Al Capone with tax evasion. But frankly I think he deserves worse. Same with Fran, who submitted the same thing a dozen times just to be a troll.
Finally, as ET has stated before, it would certainly be fair to reprimand people for infractions we couldn’t have possibly thought of yet. That’s how precedents are set. I’m surprised I should have to explain this to a former mod.