Possibly a Cabbage Posted:

However, considering that this forum is for serious straightforward discussion of the actual game, personal attacks of any kind don’t really belong here. I mean, it’s not like there’s not somewhere else to engage in those. If that results in this forum being boring, so be it. There’s plenty of non-boring forums here if that sort of thing is your cup of beverage.

Tesfan Posted:

it’s not that we (i) want to blank line spam, post gay porn, and completely turn game disscussion into a trollhole where we flame the **** out of each other, i just hate having to change my personality ever time i enter game disscussion

let me give you an example. when i disagree with someone, i might tend to use something like sarcasm, or exaggerated hypotheticals, and the like to break down someone’s argument. now, if someone gets bumhurt because i get sbumy at them in game disscussion, then maybe they weren’t entirely truthful when they said “I am not easily offended”. Log in to see images!

we arn’t advocating the complete removal of the rules, people. we simply are asking that the be restrained from the deathgrip they are now where certain posters get banned for making a sarcastic comment that is construed as trolling or posts in all caps

MC Banhammer Posted:

It’s not, and many little jokes are left completely untouched.

The post which FAIL specifically links to is in a thread about the history of Forumwarz which contains tidbits about how Forumwarz the site has changed over time. The post itself does nothing to contribute to the site’s significant history and all it does is insult a user.

Serious post here: I completely deserved that ban, and it was a pretty minor one, so whatever. Still, I think there needs to be changes to how GD is modded. A lot of insults and pokes are left unwarned and unpunished, and even the site admins have flamed users in non-RP forums recently. If the rules are going to be enforced at all, they should be enforced for all. I’m not saying ET should be banned or whatever, but I think it’s unacceptable that any users are just allowed to get away with “bannable offenses”.

Secondly, punishing troll posts is totally okay with me. There are a LOT of posts that skirt the edge though, and it can be hard to tell where the line is. Also, you don’t just have to flame to troll people; I think that a lot of whiny threads or threads asking for help with incredibly easy things are possible troll posts, but there’s no way to tell or to punish people for those. Modding all this **** is basically impossible.

I don’t think it’s okay to punish posts that break the letter of the law while following the spirit. The prime example in my mind is nanafabulous personjesus’s three-day ban a couple weeks ago for posting a short allcaps post about how she was really excited to see a forum like Trident Media in the game. The post wasn’t to annoy people, it was to express support for Episode 2. That is probably the ****tiest reason for a ban I’ve seen on here, period.

tl;dr: enforce the spirit of the rules, not the letter, but enforce it in a more standard manner if possible.