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You're right, it isn't. But surely, some people would also be less tempted to post?
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I don't doubt it. Though one stark difference I have noticed is that General Oddworld Discussion is finally overtaking Off-Topic Discussion in the posts per day scale. However, I really don't see that I've gone overboard. I've let quite a number of posts slide through.
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And there wasn't much complaining until the whole "Rules Enforcment Scheme" came along. Which at first, was pretty nice. But by now, the benefits just seem highly outweighed.
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I've been complaining the whole time, just not on the forums. The reason I did not start any big enforcement scheme was because of forum polictics. I was no doubt going to get a lot of bad publicity and anger frolm this, and I was not going to start it if I was not backed by anyone. When there were a sufficient number of members who were digusted as I was, I brought in this scheme.
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PMing a warning tells a person that they screwed up, of course. But tacking a warning onto that just incites a bit of anger, and really doesn't produce much of a good vibe. If a person gets told a few times what not to do, they'll catch on. Nobody around this forum has the time and motivation too sit around posting nonsense just to give the place trouble. Give posters an ounce of intelligence, instead of harding down with some nitpicks.
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I understand, and to some extent we do that. We caution them before we warn them. But the majority of them break the rules again, and again.
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Ah, yes. How could I have missed that? Very few of the members ever banned actually deserved it. A bit of carelessness hardly relates to muder, and doesn't mean a person should be prohibited from posting on one of (if not their) favorite online community. Typically, people temporarily banned for spamming seem to be common posters who give a spark of enthusiasm to the place.
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But they are breaking the rules still. Just because they are common posters who add a spark, does not give them any bypass around the rules.
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Hey now, has some sort of spark been hit? I don't really recall you ever being so blatant and unofficial for a good while  |
Everyone has their limits. My patience was all used up. The complete non-sense is over-whelming. Being that blatant was probably a bad choice, but sometimes being blunt has its advantages.
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I don't want to try and sound like I'm over dramatizing *cough Codek cough*, or being silly *cough Clairbear cough* or just... a bit off *cough Cyber Slig cough*, but for all practical purposes, this just doesn't seem to be working as well as I'd originall imagined it would.
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I know you've suggested that we tone down the warnings, but how did you originally imagine it would work? Surely you must have seen that there would have been some retaliation, it was expected. But not to this extent.
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