Favoritism
I absolutely fucking hate it.
I'm not sure which part that was directed at. But I hate it too, and it does occur a lot on this site.
Favoritism
I absolutely fucking hate it.
Everyone that was banned is because they harassed [Him] in some way, at some point or another, our point was to make it clear we won't tolerate immaturity of this kind any longer. [He] is not breaking any rules (and when he did, he was warned and infracted for it), you claim we give him special treatment, but really we don't, there's other people that post threads that could be deemed as "bloggy" / "useless" / "silly" and they are quite often from other members, who I will not name, even so, [He] seems to be the only one criticized and harassed for it, while this other members threads are treated with friendly chat and laughter.
[He] never "cried" or complained in any way like you assumed, it was solely a decision from the staff after witnessing harassment several times towards him.
Since some of you are a bit too high up on your high horse to see the real issue, let's look at this another way;
Jimmy is the new kid at school. He's a bit odd, naive and seemingly childish for somebody his age, but he's also friendly a curious so he immediately jumps at the chance to converse with his other classmates about all kinds of random crap. At first everybody tries to welcome him because he's a new student, so why not? Soon people start getting irritated by him constantly asking questions and just his personality in general, so some of them walk away and others start to subtly voice their irritation. Time goes by and it gets worse and worse, the new student even asks why people seem to dislike him so much at one point, but obviously he doesn't really seem to get the picture but then again, he really has no obligation to.
So now, instead of avoiding him in the hallways, people decide to constantly go up to him and harass him every time he tries to talk to them. These people could easily steer clear of him with little to no effort on their part, but instead they jump at the chance to butt into one of his conversations simply to act like bitchy 5-year olds throwing a tantrum. These people are warned numerous times by the teachers and staff to ignore the kid because he won't bother them otherwise, but do they listen? Nah. Because clearly there is some magical, invisible force making these poor, innocent kids harass and bully Jimmy. Because apparently these kids are incapable of learning to shut their mouths and move on.
See the problem here? It's not that Splat is going out of his way to bait people. Shit, I've seen more than enough trolls in my time, especially since I used to love being one myself, and I'd be frickin' astounded if he actually turned out to be a troll. Trolls go out and seek trouble. They thrive off of it. He just posts a bunch of threads but otherwise usually stays out of other people's threads. If he really wanted to cause trouble, he'd post anywhere and everywhere he could to get attention, including other people's threads. Yet he doesn't. He simply keeps to his own (albeit numerous) threads and maybe once in a blue moon decides to post in one he didn't make himself.
Yet people act like they're physically incapable of controlling themselves. What are you guys, rapists? Trying to excuse your own shitty behavior by acting like wolves in sheeps clothing. People pls. The fact of the matter is, it takes time and effort to reply to one of his posts. You first have to go to Bean Rua (or under the New Posts button if you're like me), scroll down, click one of his threads, read it, scroll down again to the reply button, type a reply, then hit the post button.
If you can't see through your irritation after all of that shit, then yes, you deserve to get angry. You deserve to be punished and you deserve to be kicked off of your high horse for being an idiot. You're not 5. You can't blame somebody else for your own actions; you and you only are capable of going out of your way to reply to one of his threads. If you can't be a big boy or girl and learn to not clicking on the frickin' thread title and hit the post button, then you deserve nothing less but being treated like the child that you are.
It's as simple as that.
My two cents.
You absolutely should not ban for flaming for a first offense under any circumstance.
People with certain neurological conditions do NOT understand the concept of jokes and insulting well.
For instance, i see people throwing around insults and jokes to each other and it is "ok", so it makes me feel like i should too, "if he can, so can i"
This is why i absolutely despise inside jokes because it is completely unfair and mind boggling to people with certain syndromes, and it BOTHERS me greatly that i could simply be misunderstood and be banned for doing absolutely nothing wrong (wrong on my end, not on your end)
So yeah, i do not like this at all because now i have to panic every time i post.
Not cool.
People are too full of pride to see that they are the problem and not the new member. They think that they are allowed to do anything they want simply because they are older members and have been around longer.
This goes hand-in-hand with people who think post count and rep mean a thing.
Fact of the matter is, they mean god damn NOTHING.
Ah, Im gonna have to disagree. No one is faultless here, aside from the people that ignore the entire situation.
The flaming on one side is completely unnecessary, yes. But it doesn't take a genius to realize that something they're doing is annoying a large group of people in return.
I meant as they were the problem is that it was their fault they were seeing the threads by the member and not ignoring them as they were instructed.
On a side note let me suggest that there be a thread limit be placed, such as being able to only create 1 thread every hour or two. this would cause certain members to use existing threads, instead of flooding the forums. Making the ignore function more useful and cut down on flaming.