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Posted by: evilcam
I once carpet banned well over 100 people in a particularity bad spam/troll topic in the Halo 3 forum.
Did I really just read this?
This thread was made a while ago about carpet banning. Allow me to share some comments from it about the term itself:
Posted by: True Underdog
I've said it once and I'll say it again, the term "carpet banning" implies careless use of moderator tools, when that's simply not the case.
When people say "oh, you carpet banned," they are 100% incorrect, every time. If there is a thread that's obvious spam, or the OP is a shock site, I will warn everyone who replied to the thread for replying to a forum disruption. If they've received a warning for the same thing in the past, they will get a three day ban, if they've been banned for three days before, they will get a seven day ban.
That's about as cut and dry, black and white, as you can get.
e: Basically, each user is treated as an individual in a case by case manner.
Posted by: True Underdog
It's called moderating, rule enforcing, whatever you want to call it, but the term carpet ban is just flat out lazy.
My point, is that I'd never expect to see a ninja use the term "carpet ban" to describe their actions.