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.
CatsControlTheEU ago
I hate that pedo faggot and I was one of the people who wanted him gone. But there is also an additional point brought up, what exactly constitutes spam in this case? I realize many things must be considered on a case by case basis but what was the deciding factor for el pedo?
Where the posts were submitted?
The content?
The amount of submissions?
Repeated submissions to different subs?
A combination of these factors?
Seventh_Jim ago
A subjective test for obscenity is law of the land for the entire US. "Know it when I see it" is legal precedent. Should suffice here as well.
Broc_Lia ago
Wasn't that precedent (rightly) overturned? There's no point in having a subjective rule. The whole point of rules is to be as objective as possible.
Seventh_Jim ago
It was replaced with a community standards precedent that enabled places to ban pornshops outright.
Keeping a floating definition of spam provides a useful tool to deal with assholes who decide to stand just past the line.
I see it as an extra foot of chain on a dog leash.