Tell Us Who Got Banned Thread Closed?
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Archie Moses
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Fair enough. I apologize for "talking down" to you and Archie but it drives me insane when people sit and think everything was handled without consultation. Three votes are necessary for any action. When the thread gets locked, I'm not entirely sure why that means create another or start posting in unrelated threads. At that point, it's like my kid throwing a tantrum and Kicky made a decision to "ground you". I'm not trying to belittle the situation any more but that's how I feel. Maybe I'm wrong in that. It was locked and you could PM a moderator or me for clarification if it wasn't immediately evident in the thread. It may have even been unlocked once others could have been consulted.
I'm sorry again you felt singled out and that we spoiled your fun.
To the extent I made an error it was as follows:
To the best of my recollection it is true that after I sent out the warning honz stopped posting on the subject. Archie did not. To that extent there is a good argument that I should have temporarily ban-hammered Archie and let honz be. I can see that argument and I respect it. If that is the basis of honz' complaint, then that is valid.
My defense is as follows: Things were moving very quickly (I think I merged 3-5 items from various sources in about 5 minutes while editing my moderator thread log of what was happening and viewing various private messages that Archie and honz were sending me) and Archie was sending me PMs indicating that he and honz were engaging in a coordinated effort. To that extent at the time I viewed it as they were essentially operating in a unified fashion and I treated them identically.
If I could do it over again I would have still temporarily banned Archie, but I would have reached out a final time to honz (after already sending him 3-4 PMs during this incident) to make sure he had no further plans to try to get around the thread lock before temporarily banning him as well.
To the best of my recollection it is true that after I sent out the warning honz stopped posting on the subject. Archie did not. To that extent there is a good argument that I should have temporarily ban-hammered Archie and let honz be. I can see that argument and I respect it. If that is the basis of honz' complaint, then that is valid.
My defense is as follows: Things were moving very quickly (I think I merged 3-5 items from various sources in about 5 minutes while editing my moderator thread log of what was happening and viewing various private messages that Archie and honz were sending me) and Archie was sending me PMs indicating that he and honz were engaging in a coordinated effort. To that extent at the time I viewed it as they were essentially operating in a unified fashion and I treated them identically.
If I could do it over again I would have still temporarily banned Archie, but I would have reached out a final time to honz (after already sending him 3-4 PMs during this incident) to make sure he had no further plans to try to get around the thread lock before temporarily banning him as well.
Archie Moses
Well-Known Member
I would rep you if I could. This is actually very reasonable.