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Usually, I try to be nice to those whom I'm attempting to correct. Usually its just a new member who posts a topic in the wrong forum. And usually I'll tell them to try the correct forum next time and welcome them to the Bungie community. Or someone will post a bloggish topic and I'll tell them to add a question or something to make it less of a blog.
Sometimes, I get angry with people who I believe are intentionally breaking the rules. Awhile ago a new user came into the Septagon and started posting Halo2 MM related topics. He was kindly asked by some Forum Cops to read the stickies. The tread was then moved to the correct forum. Later, he posted about 10 different threads into the
Septagon all again about Halo 2 matchmaking. He was warned by a mod, and most of the topics were locked. He then made another one, and I posted with the question, "Are you trying to get banned today?". Everyone then started flaming me for being mean, and then the thread was finally locked.
What I thought was funny about the situation was everyone was mad at me for being a mean forum cop, and they brushed off the multiple topics created by the new user. I didn't think that I had done anything wrong, but no one else did. I learned from that experience that the users on this site have little tolerance for a bad, or mean forum cop. So much so that they went after the forum cop behavior instead of the spam. Well, the past is the past and I learned a lesson from it.
Mabian and ICEMAN are correct. If you see some rule breaking, and rather than PM a mod about it post your correction, do it nicely and try to be helpful. Don't be mean or rude; try to show the rule breaker they're mistake and how to do it correctly. We'd all benefit from a little less hostile environment whenever possible.
That's all I have to say about that.