- Shai Hulud
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- Exalted Mythic Member
With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.
Posted by: dmbfan09
*reads Shai's post*
And there are those who thought my idea was harsh...
Heh, true, what I said was harsh... but also ill-explained.
I don't think any offense should equal a smash from the banhammer. It depends on how the rules are broken. There is "bending the rules," "breaking the rules," and "complete and utter disobedience."
Bending the Rules: Every minor flame (ones that are "well-mannered" and good-humored... like mom-jokes), spam, misplaced thread (wrong forum placement), unknowingly repeated-topic, etc. Threads containing these should be locked... but I don't think it deems whoever participated in them banhammer-worthy.
Breaking the Rules: Things that clearly go against Bungie.net's terms of use and code of conduct in a negative way. Things like minor political statements, minor religious statements, saying the "N" word once or twice (that being the derogatory term for new player)... Things that might dictate a banning, but is left to more of the discretion of whatever mod sees the thread/post. I fell into this catagory, and Shishka deemed it necessary to blacklist me for things I had said... But if I were to make his choice on the matter, I would not be writing this post (if everything had been left up to me regarding what I was blacklisted for, I wouldn't have been blacklisted to begin with... but that's my discretion, not Shishka's).
Complete and Utter Disobedience: Things like flames made for no particular reason that don't solve anything, and just get on people's nerves. Things like spam made for the sake of spam... Political and religious rants, wether for or against... Saying "so-and-so is teh uber suxxor" (wether it be 1337 speak or not, I think that people should be banned for creating threads for the sole purpose of flaming a single member). In my opionion, if you don't have any respect for the rules, you shouldn't be here.