[dLtMs0 v 5.4] ITT SHINJI IS CONFIRMED FOR GROSSEST; Days till Pokestick Day: check new thread

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...Now that I think about it, those are some weird-ass rules. I wonder what kind of drama the staff wanted to get rid of when they established that.

I'd love to have that rule set if I owned a forum, though. I could ban people I didn't like or agree with and get away with it without question!
 
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I might just be overly critical, but I've read enough forum staff horror stories (and dystopian novels, for that matter) to instantly be concerned when there's a clear lack of transparency and hush-hush and the need to expurgate conversations.

...Actually, after a curious visit to the Rules section, I can find a rule that prohibits asking staff why members have been banned (as I remembered from the last time I read these), but from what I can see there's nothing to stop users from simply "discussing banned members", as you put it. I found that deleted posts in the DCC were tagged "banned member discussion", too. So there's clearly a well set in stone idea about this amongst the staff, but unless there's some insinuation in the rules somewhere and I'm terrible at reading comprehension (which of course could be very possible), this does not operate from any public, central decree. This is actually getting really interesting. My detective senses are tingling.
 
453. Excerpt from the infraction section of the rules:

threads or posts discussing infractions or bans will be removed

It doesn't specifically refer to the receiver of the infraction or ban.

Functionally, I assume part of the goal is to keep non-banned members from deliberately antagonizing a banned member, which just makes more long term headaches for all involved and makes the community unnecessarily toxic for something that's supposed to be a non-stressing experience. Other communities I've been around in the past have had problems with this.
 
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