I encourage anyone that actually cares about this community to read the following thread.

http://www.forumwarz.com/discussions/view/36011-trolling-in-idc

I will admit that the OP was a bit of an overreaction to a rumored set of rule changes (which I am still convinced is not entirely a work of fiction), but the thread quickly derailed into the mess about what is banable and the edit feature and a slew of arguing.

I am not making this thread to take a particular side just yet, as the argument that happened in the other thread seemed to be going in circles. I do, however, want to bring up the fact that a user was banned for a post that they had already edited to a non-trolling version before any mod had taken action.

This is not a good precedent to set. The edit function exists for this very reason. I know that I have saved myself many times by editing questionable things out of my posts. Are you saying that all these times I was just lucky a mod wasn’t instantly there to catch me? If I were a mod, I would want to encourage people to look over what they had just posted and to utilize the edit function if they felt anything needed changing. Isn’t self-moderation the best kind of moderation?

By letting this ban stick, and even reverting a post to the pre-edit version, you are basically saying that recognizing mistakes in posts is a pointless endeavor, and that you, as a moderation staff, are unwilling to acknowledge any effort a player makes to fix an “inappropriate” post.

It’s about time you started treating us with our best interests in mind, and not your ban-happy sense of what is “right” and “wrong”.