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Originally Posted by Phobia
Exactly. It's like the don't run with scissors rule. It's not emblazoned on the scissors but if you get impaled, don't come crying to me. Especially if you get impaled over and over again.
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This is the perfect situation where the ignore feature works, though. He wasn't doing anything offensive, and those who didn't like what he did could put him on ignore. I did, and I didn't even know he got banned. Other people enjoyed his posting style, though.
As for the rules, I guess this is the one he broke?
Respect for Moderator Team
Moderators are members of the site first and leadership secondarily. Nobody expects you to kiss their ass or accept every decision as perfect and final. However, if you dispute a decision in which you were moderated, you may wish to use some tact if you expect to gain any favor. Use some common sense and you should be fine. Attack and disrespect the leadership and we offer no apologies for the duration of your vacation from this site.
My point is, what is "common sense" to you may not be so common for others. That fact is becoming more and more apparent with the type of posters that are on this site nowadays. My question would be which rule did he break to warrant the first ban? I ask because I really don't know. Was it similar to the LJS posts? Spam? He wasn't trying to sell anything. The closest thing would be overloading the front page with threads, but he was overloading the thread with annoying posts. IMO, there's a difference there.
Again, I know I'm that annoying vocal minority sometimes, so take this post for what you will. I do also try to state when I agree with mod actions, too.
Anyway, I'm not around as much, so him being here or not being here, regardless of the reason, doesn't mean much to me one way or another. Just an observation on my part.