Punishment Changes for Flaming.

• Banner wrote on 2013-02-22 07:26

  Quote from Lyrveil;1037327:

  The funny thing is that those "AAFDDAGFFDGDFFADDSFDA" thread are pretty much 50% of bean rua threads made by members other than him. No one say anything about those because it's not that particular member. Then he makes thread asking legitimate questions (albeit they could easily be found on google) and gets a shitstorm for it.

  
  
  Exactly.
• Nakishu wrote on 2013-02-22 07:26

  Quote from Locke;1037325:

  I think this may be starting to go beyond "civil discussion."

  
  
  Just a tad.
• Cannibal wrote on 2013-02-22 07:27

  Quote from Trevor;1037329:

  
  
  Anyways I think this subject was discussed enough and all the ideas are already out there and were answered so I think it should be locked.

  
  Me too. I'll even admit I probably shouldn't have been so harsh on some of the things I said. Sorry guys.
• Bakuryu wrote on 2013-02-22 14:10

  Quote from Space Pirate Nithiel;1037290:

  
  I remember Osay and other mods spending MONTHS telling everyone that it was NOT OK to treat BR as a spamhole to post whatever thought crosses your mind. That it was the offtopic section, NOT the spam section. And I remember people getting in trouble for spamming there after repeatedly being told not to.
  

  
  This was regarding when all people were doing is posting one single word threads, with things that go so far from idiotic I'm pretty sure I lost a few IQ points while moderating that.
  
  I remember quickly editing a screenshot to illustrate my point.
  
  This looks ok:
  

  [Image: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a178/letixferrance/looksok.jpg]

  
  
  This doesn't (which was pretty much how BR looked back then)
  

  [Image: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a178/letixferrance/notok.jpg]

  
  
  
  
  Now, threads from the person in question are NOT stupid meaningless things, he often asks legit questions, whether you regard them as such is of no relevance, because to him they are, recently it stroke me how he just wants to help his sister and he just asks questions here to help us help him, and that's amazing.
  
  In all complete honesty, this member has NEVER bothered me in ANY way, ever. I seem to be the only one, I pretty much always open all his threads, and I don't see anything wrong with them, with the exception of grammar (doesn't bother me, readable, most of the time), questions that could be googled (not our problem that he wastes time waiting for replies instead of googling it to get the answer in 15 seconds, not to mention he might just want personal input from members.) All in all, his threads have MEANING and true PURPOSE, unlike things we punished members back when we stopped calling BR the "spam" section.
• Cannibal wrote on 2013-02-22 19:30
  I'm really glad you put that together, Baku, because I remembered there was a reason why that was pushed so hard, just not what what reason was.