Hobart Bliggity Posted:

This came up in Was’ thread, but I feel its worth hashing out on its own.

There are awful, annoying, terrible posters in RP, and many of us feel that they keep a lot of the people that actually contribute comedy to this site away. A few mods (not just Nicco) have expressed frustration over not being able to ban these people from the boards without banning them from everything else. I agree that if you really want to play dom or w/e you shouldn’t be excluded from that because you were annoying in flamebate, but I also don’t feel that I should have to put up with your **** just because you might want to play dom too.

I see it this way, I don’t purposely **** up the parts of the game you use, don’t come **** up the parts of the game I use. We have rules against abuse in every other part of the game, and bans that make sense when people break those rules. However, getting banned from everything for being an idiot in flamebate doesn’t seem like an appropriate punishment.

I feel that a separate ban for the boards is needed. It really makes sense to separate gameplay and community bans, if not to keep the boards cleaner and more conducive to entertaining threads, than to highlight the difference in severity between gameplay abuse and forum retardation.

It’s not a bad idea… I gather that the full ban should be still usable, i.e. for illegal alt users, people trying to hack/crash the site, and serial Flamebate offenders, amirite?