Quote from: Not Lemon on June 17, 2015, 05:48:34 PM

Quote from: Cheat on June 17, 2015, 05:46:32 PM

You got a warning for calling someone a retard. I don't understand how you think it was unwarranted.

literally how is it any different than when i do it basically every day? are we a hugbox now?

are we going to get warnings for telling people to kill themselves too?

Someone reported you this time. Just because you got away with it in the past doesn't mean I approve of insulting members here. Had you a clean warning record, I would have just told you to knock it off. As it is, you got a pretty light warning and you are still able to post/PM.

I don't know that telling someone to kill themself would always get you a warning, just like you calling people names didn't always get you a warning. Moderation is unfortunately subjective, so you'll always have the risk of a warning or a ban if you insist on insulting people in your posts. I'm not telling you to be nice and I don't mean to make this place a hugbox, but straight up insulting someone probably isn't a good idea.

Keep crying. You broke the rules and got a warning. Big deal.

I read this whole thread, and your incessant bitching over "omg i call people retards all the time so that means I can never get warned for it lol" is just dumb. You don't get warned for it because mods don't constantly stalk your posts. What you do is against the rules, like it or not. Build a bridge and get over it.

I'd rather the inconsistency and insults to slip by or get lite warned occasionally rather than outright banned for every insult.

Arguing for all-or-nothing approach will only get an "all insults banned" response, and I wouldn't want that, neither would you Lemon considering your love of them.

Quote from: Byrne on June 17, 2015, 06:09:42 PM

Quote from: Cheat on June 17, 2015, 05:59:31 PM

Moderation is unfortunately subjective,

I've been told otherwise by Psy, Yu, LC and Flee, when trying to communicate with them over things I report.

You are a great organiser and I am more than grateful for this site, just look at my activity. I've even contributed articles.
But you have moderators for a reason and as it stands, you are a horrible moderator.

You've jumped the gun on things like this before, going off of feeling and what you dislike, whereas, the actual people you have as moderators follow a code of conduct and a very well laid out set of rules.
I won't say other mods don't do things on feeling, but the amount of times I've heard another mod say how much they'd love to ban or perma someone on feeling, but can't because they have rules to uphold...

It's cheap and unfair when you bend the conduct your staff is held to, just to suit yourself.

I'm actually pretty hesitant to ban someone in most cases and I don't ever modify posts or warn someone on a whim. To be honest I am a bit lost on what the hell you're on about; I've been moderating posts and handing out warnings just as often and just as persistently as I always have, but none of them have been unwarranted.

You can think I'm a bad moderator all you want, and that's fine; I'm probably not the best one out there. But IMO you're blowing this whole thing out of proportion, considering the insult and the following warning. You do raise some good points about moderation consistency and punishments regarding name-calling. I think those things do need to be looked at again and agreed upon by everyone because as it stands now, this place is a bit too hostile and I'd like to see what we can do about changing that without making it a "hugbox" as Lemon said.

Quote from: challengerX on June 17, 2015, 06:11:33 PM

But don't act like it's hard to catch Lemon or me or a bunch of other members being "hostile" and act like randomly banning us while most the time we're free to say whatever we want solves anything.

It's not hard, no, but this forum isn't exactly a tiny place, and moderators can't read every post, even if they'd would like to. Some things will slip through the cracks either through lack of reporting or lack of moderator presence; that's just reality. But assuming that just because you got away with it one time means you can do it another without consequences is foolish (especially when the warning wasn't even a lite-ban, I mean come on...).

Quote from: Not Lemon on June 17, 2015, 07:46:43 PM

Quote from: SecondClass on June 17, 2015, 07:38:55 PM

I read this whole thread, and your incessant bitching over "omg i call people retards all the time so that means I can never get warned for it lol" is just dumb. You don't get warned for it because mods don't constantly stalk your posts. What you do is against the rules, like it or not. Build a bridge and get over it.

You mean besides the fact that I've directly called mods retards and stuff, without there being a problem because they don't have a pole wedged firmly up their arse?

But sure. Let's go with the inconsistent moderation and hugbox approach. Sure will help keep this place going.

You're hardly mister fucking innocent either.

I wouldn't mind this place getting stricter on blatant insults.

I think it really depends on the context of the insult. There's a pretty fine line between being a smartass and straight up attacking someone.