MODS POST HERE: do you ever feel bad about banning someone?
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Everyone knows this is FP and all. Rules are strict and anyone who breaks them is quickly ... quarantined ... but has there ever been a time when you (insert name of moderator viewing this page here) felt bad about banning someone? even though they clearly broke the rules.
Not being a mod, this isn't my place to say...but people are generally banned for breaking the rules. The mods don't do it for fun, and weather or not somebody's broken a rule is usually black or white. Any kind of moral dilemma would be left with whoever makes the rules (still the mods, but not the question answer). Besides, this is an internet forum. You're not ruining somebody's life when you ban them. But if mods ban somebody, they usually need to have a reason for it, anyway.
Unless they're Garry. These are his forums, so he can ban whoever the fuck he wants for any reason.
[QUOTE=CAPT Opp4;42729695]Not being a mod, this isn't my place to say...but people are generally banned for breaking the rules. The mods don't do it for fun, and weather or not somebody's broken a rule is usually black or white. Any kind of moral dilemma would be left with whoever makes the rules (still the mods, but the question answer). Besides, this is an internet forum. You're not ruining somebody's life when you ban them. But if mods ban somebody, they usually need to have a reason for it, anyway.
Unless they're Garry. These are his forums, so he can ban whoever the fuck he wants for any reason.[/QUOTE]
I don't know. As postal once said in a game of jbep3:
[quote=postal]Every time I alt-tab, I ban someone in the Rust forum.[/quote]
[QUOTE]Every time I alt-tab, I ban someone in the Rust forum.[/QUOTE]
Are you sure he wasn't just joking about how often he has to ban people in the rust forum? I doubt it's like that for no reason.
[QUOTE=CAPT Opp4;42729729]Are you sure he wasn't just joking about how often he has to ban people in the rust forum? I doubt it's like that for no reason.[/QUOTE]Have you ever been to the Rust forum?
[QUOTE=LobsterPastry;42730019]Have you ever been to the Rust forum?[/QUOTE]
how can you be this sick and demented? DONT DO IT CAPT OPP4
never
[editline]2nd November 2013[/editline]
im an undercover mod
Don't even need a mod to say if they regret it, if you read refugee camp, there are accidental bans occasionally.
Like I do remember one where autumn banned a guy for saying he can go torrent some game, when the game was free, and that's how the creators distributed it.
I wouldn't think so. Max banned me so hard last time they almost had to get Autumn.
Well being an administrator on other sites there are always the cases of people borderlining on rules and you feel that you should ban them even though it's a bit excessive. Here they can just ban for a very short time instead so it shouldn't be that much of a problem but it wouldn't surprise me if it still happens. I would also imagine the dilemma of banning your friends, sometimes they fuck up too and as a mod you have a duty to ban them.
[QUOTE=jiggu;42733190]Well being an administrator on other sites there are always the cases of people borderlining on rules and you feel that you should ban them even though it's a bit excessive. Here they can just ban for a very short time instead so it shouldn't be that much of a problem but it wouldn't surprise me if it still happens. I would also imagine the dilemma of banning your friends, sometimes they fuck up too and as a mod you have a duty to ban them.[/QUOTE]
If there's an issue with a friend fucking up, you call in another mod to do it unless it's a blatant rule break.
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