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.
Laurentius_the_pyro ago
Which rule did he violate?
PuttItOut ago
Spam.
Laurentius_the_pyro ago
How was anything he posted 'spam'? it was A. relevant to the subverse, and B. didn't violate any rules, and C. wasn't for commercial gain.
Are unpopular posts now considered spam?
PuttItOut ago
This is ridiculous, and you know this.
Aged has been a complaint since the beginning of time. His contributions are not received well and off topic. v/Gaming is a system sub and I get the call on it.
Laurentius_the_pyro ago
No, it's not. Freedom of Speech is never ridiculous. Bans for non-rule breaking content are not a laughing matter.
so what? if he didn't break a rule then it doesn't matter.
They were absolutely on-topic, them being not "well received" is not a justification for a ban? surely users can police their own content?
And I can call you out on uneven rule enforcement.
You cannot ban someone for violating unposted rules, this is redditry.
If the rules were appended to classify "fanart" posts as off-topic and then aged was banned AFTER the rule was posted then I wouldn't have a problem with this, but as it stands you're banning a user who did not violate any rules.
PuttItOut ago
I'll think about it. I'll at least do that.
Laurentius_the_pyro ago
That's all I'm asking, we can't ban users just because we hate them.
if the rules were changed and he was banned for a violation after they were changed then I would have zero problems.
PuttItOut ago
My only counter to this is that it's ridiculous to post a list of everything that is/isn't against the rules. It's an endless list, much like Linux accepting the COC, now everything technically is or isn't against the rules depending on which way you argue it.
I refuse to play this game.
There is a common sense baseline that can't be ignored and to which my decision was made. That's the best I can explain it right now.
Laurentius_the_pyro ago
I understand this, but the only rule he can be argued to have broken is rule #1, but even then that's not true because his posts were related to gaming.
Well I hate him, and I really hate that you faggots are forcing me to defend him on principle.
PuttItOut ago
Lol, we are all fighting over someone neither of us prefers.
And it's by design if you ask me. People crave attention.
But I see your point about slippery slope. But I did ban him for spam... because no one seemed to want it.
Itty-bitty_Tity-trap ago
Look at theoldones post history for ffs. He literally goes onto v/loli to tell them to kill themselves. This is nothing but a small group of people bandwagoning on an easy target.
It doesn't matter whether you like someone or not, let them have there say.