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
I'm glad you made this post now. Because we do need to work to define a new rule about people who disrupt things on purpose.
They abuse the mere fact that we don't typically ban and then shit on everything. Think about the v/aww thing a few months back. That was complete BS.
So how do we phrase this rule?
TheBuddha ago
If you're going to be that subjective, and you may need to, then I'd suggest an entirely new rule.
"Making Putt clean up after you."
I may be drinking, but right now that idea seems pretty good. Don't cause drama by doing stupid shit that makes the admin have to pay attention. Ideally, the admin shouldn't even know most usernames. If you know their username, they're probably a problem.
Granted, I much prefer a hands off/minimal approach, but I'm not the one that gets hundreds of retarded pings every day.
I wish you luck! If you need a picture of a middle finger and help burning the place to the ground, let me know!
Broc_Lia ago
Two problems:
Putt's intervention arguably wasn't necessary here
That effectively makes it ok for putt to delete anything then ban the user because he had to clean up after them. The whole point of this is to have clear rules about what kind of content should be removed and under what circumstances users can be banned.
TheBuddha ago
Yeah, but he does have a great deal of history of making good choices.
This is one that I can't agree with, but I doubt it is a trend or slippery slope. I have pretty good expectations from Putt and he hasn't failed much.
I really, really don't agree with his choice this time. Calling it spam really bends those rules.
Broc_Lia ago
I'm not ragging on putt too much, I don't think it was a disasterously bad decision or anything, just don't personally disagree with it. In fairness he's acknowledged that there's controversy and he's trying to put solid rules in place. That's more than any reddit shitmin would do.
TheBuddha ago
Absolutely. I don't think it's the start of a new trend or anything.