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Originally Posted by bluesxman
It's not a matter of disagreeing with you or necessarily agreeing with the actions of others who have been banned, I just find the moderation of the site to be totally hypocritical. For instance, I tend to be pretty amaible on the whole, I expressed my opinion that Cloud is a cunt once and i'm getting the stock warning alerts going off.
Despite Neil's predictable speech, it doesn't matter at all what the level of insult is, an insult is an insult and you get away with blatantly insulting and ridiculing a large number of users on a regular basis and it's getting tired. The so-called 'rules' don't define what is and isn't acceptable, they use bland guidance to carry out bland moderation which has no bottle to live by the self appointed rule system.
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That was a friendly warning, not only for you but also for others who have contributed to this thread and may do so in future. I know you're rarely, if ever the cause of any hassle on this site. If you had been a persistent offender, I may have issued an infraction or even a temporary ban. We do judge these things on an individual basis and use our common sense. Most of the moderation on this site is done via PMs and email, away from the forums themselves. On the whole it works, and I think we manage to strike a pretty good balance.
However, there are always going to be attention seekers who know which buttons to push in order to provoke an angry response, and to be honest the membership as a whole have the power to deal with these people by not engaging with them. I'm not going to ban someone for having an opinion, no matter how ludicrous or ill-informed it may be.