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?
Octocopter ago
Banning a user out of the blue after listening to a post where the user referred to it as a "subreddit" then making up a reason after that fact. What a joke.
PuttItOut ago
You're a joke. That isn't what happened. I have way more information than you and I chose descretion on openness for discussion purposes. Not a joke.
Octocopter ago
Got your attention enough to trigger you over it, my bet is you are second guessing the way you handled it. So a discussion about changes to the way rules are being applied happening after a ban took place is not how it happened?
How about the Noids like Ghostskin and his alts that spam and shit across multiple subs with post that have fuck all relation to the subs they are posted in? You cant tell me they are less of a Noid than Aged posting tangentially related content to one sub.
You want my input on it? reverse the ban and issue a warning to the rule change and add the side bar to force all remotely possible NSFW content to be flagged as such. IF he breaks any rules after it being updated no one has any right to complain about him being banned.
PuttItOut ago
Well this is a better expression of communication.
Octocopter ago
I am sure you understand mine and others frustration about this well enough.
PuttItOut ago
It's the purpose of the sticky. To facilitate communication about a rather complex subject.
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Octocopter ago
Aged should have been banned for posting real children long before this became an issue. All around the world people get banned and even arrested for sharing pictures from those [eastern European modeling agencies] Hell even 4chan in the old days would ban IPs for posting that and they were pretty hardcore in to the freedom of what could be shared and said.
My concern is that the ban was made for a rule not clearly defined. Was it not flagging all his moderately NSFW posts as NSFW, the number of posts made, is 3rd party fan art and other content to be counted as spam, is it some concept that he was doing to target the users of the sub.
Any choice you make on how you define that ruling will impact Voat and I don't like how you did that this time. I have a lot of faith and support for what you have provided for us this just really irks me.