So now we're banning users who didn't break any rules (gaming)

submitted ago by Laurentius_the_pyro

The fact that @puttitout banned aged based purely on a brigaded request thread by people who themselves are spammers (and unlike aged their 'spam' wasn't even relevant to the subverse).

Like it's very hard to feel sympathy for someone like /u/aged, but this uneven enforcement is ridiculous, why is /u/theoldones not banned when he spammed /v/gaming constantly with self posts reqursting /u/aged to be banned? Are these relevant to gaming but lewd fanart of adult female game characters is not?

If puttitout can give an explanation of which rule was broken I'd be ok with it, but as it stands "im a dictator lmao" is not an excuse to ban a user.

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PuttItOut ago

Yup, I banned him and I stand by it.

TheBuddha ago

I can't really agree with you here. Spam is so loosely defined and it seems a stretch to call his submissions spam.

Annoying? Yes. But spam? I'm not so sure it's spam and I'm not even sure if it's off topic.

So, for what it's worth (which is very little), I can't really agree with your justification. However, I ain't gotta agree and you ain't gotta give a shit about my thoughts on the subject.

PuttItOut ago

But I thought you would have burned Voat down a long time ago?

TheBuddha ago

Hells yeah, I would have. I'd have given 'em all the finger for being ungrateful, whiny cunts that pester you with trivial shit and make stupid fucking accusations about you.

I'd still have probably not banned him for spam.

For email, I much prefer the term 'UCE' (unsolicited commercial email). The 'spam' rule on voat seems Ill-defined and this ban seemingly muddies that definition even further. It's more like folks wanted him banned and that's just the excuse.

I'm not stupid enough to think this starts a trend or slippery slope, but it is pretty vague. You have a vast history of doing the right thing, so I doubt it's a trend.

If it were me, I'd probably have just banned 'em for being an antagonistic cunt in a system/default sub. Then I'd have burned the place to the ground and danced around the glowing embers!

PuttItOut ago

Fair