MOVED: Just a reminder that verbal abuse is allowed on Sep7agon [Update]

 
 
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This topic has been moved to HQ.

Kupo: I can see how this wouldn't exactly fit in a report.
It does however break the rules by calling out a user, but it would be incredibly wrong to warn someone for trying to bring an issue the moderators.

I'm moving it to the HQ board for discussion with the rest of the moderators.
Last Edit: January 05, 2015, 08:15:47 PM by Mr Psychologist


 
 
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Upon review of the unorthodox report that kupo made ITT, two warnings have been issued.
A few points for consideration though.

Number 1. This method of reporting posts is not encouraged and infact is technically against the rules. You will never receive a warning for doing so mind you, that's just wrong. It will get locked and moved though. What you should do instead is either PM it to a moderator as a block of text or report it manually but when you are dealing with that number of posts I don't think that's a good idea either.

Number 2. Not all of the posts included in the report broke the rules, some were simply abrasiveness and vulgarity. Neither of which are against the rules but are certainly tiresome. When it turns into insults, that is however against the rules. Persistently insulting a user after two edits and two moderator verbal warnings clearly shows you aren't getting the message, and is grounds for censure as opposed to just calling someone stupid/dumb/idiot/retard etc.

Number 3. Addressing the thread that spawned most of this shit.
Yeah, I should have just locked it outright. I didn't and I was having a discussion with a certain user about it, to which upon reflection I was roughly incorrect. Unfortunately I'm still a human, as much as I wish I could be a robot, and humans make mistakes. Even moderators. And I doubly fucked up by leaving to keep an appointment with a friend and not locking it, that was because I felt it would be seen as petty/abuse of power to lock an argument and to waltz off as if nothing mattered.
So yeah, my apologies for not beheading that drama llama when it first reared it's head.