Hobie-wan wrote:He'd had multiple warnings over the past few years and kept breaking the rules. He had multiple chances and he blew it.
I guess it is fair to let you know that many of the threads he posted in resulted in members posting notifications to the mods, that over the years pretty much every individual mod received multiple complaints via PM about his posting behavior (some of which asked for a ban), and that he never really seemed to understand that much of what he did (intentionally or not) kept pissing people off. We thought that, ultimately, his posts were doing more to drive away some of our members (including both new and long-established ones) than they were to make this a place where people wanted to post.
As was mentioned in the other thread, we didn't make the decision lightly and on several previous occasions gave him a "stay of execution" so to speak, because he did indeed bring more to the forum than an argumentative streak, he did sometimes introduce interesting discussion points into a thread ("stubborn truths," as he often put it), and he did cool down for periods of time after being issued warnings.
So yeah, while the mods acted in unity, there are certainly a few of us who have a tinge of sadness about seeing him go...
And to answer a few other questions:
-As far as I know there's no precedent for a "cooling off" ban. It was our decision to permaban him.
-The rules for the site are stickied at the top of every forum/sub-forum, and those are what we base our modding decisions on. We also tend to enforce a general "three warnings before a ban" policy, but that number can be more or less depending on the severity of certain violations and/or someone's overall posting history.
-I would be surprised if we banned more than three people last year (other than spammers), and I would also be surprised if we have banned many more than 2-4 a year in the time I've been part of the moderating team. I think we've indicated many times that we're more in favor of community censuring than "institutional" censoring when it comes to controversial/borderline posts, and the general maturity of this community allows us to pretty much be hands off when it comes to dealing with contentious issues.
Anyway, I don't know how much more I can say about the banning of Inazuma without getting into details about specific problematic posts, specific previous warnings, etc. - and that stuff should remain private, I believe.
