• Tudd constantly breaks the rules and our mods are morons - the thread
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This thread really isn't necessary. PM Hezzy with evidence of a users wrongdoing if you have it will get you a lot further.
[QUOTE=dark soul;53048938]I like Tudd. I don't visit conservative websites so it's good to get news and options from his side.[/QUOTE] We've got plenty of other right leaning users, we're not a complete hugbox yet.
At the risk of it making me unpopular, I'm going to reiterate what Hezzy said in FD. Complaints should be forwarded to him through PM. But I'll add, in case you missed it: Send him quotes and specific posts that you believe are breaking rules. Even ones that we've said are okay before. Compile a Google Doc if you have to. If this situation is coming to a head then we're going to have a discussion about it. But this thread isn't the way to do that. I know it's frustrating, especially since us moderators vary in opinion about the topic in question too and don't always have the same response or answer to it. Hezzy is asleep at the moment but he's let us know that we [I]are[/I] going to be making decisions and having conversations when he's available again. I'm not going to ban anyone who posted in here, but I am going to close this thread since PMing Hezzy will be a more certain way to know he'll see it. If you can't get a PM out to Hezzy, DM me on Discord if you really have to. I can't give you super in depth replies or anything, but you can at least leave me your links and stuff if you need to. For now, try to relax a little bit. These past few hours have been kind of wack and I personally would rather see a resolution to the whole thing myself. So it'll happen. But give us some time to get ourselves together. If you have any glaring questions, you can get at me on Discord or PM me here.
I can appreciate people are frustrated at not being able to discuss Tudd. But just take a look at that sentence and think about the implications. Why is one single user worthy of discussion? He isn't. That is why I implemented the "PM me to make a complaint about a user" rule in Forums Discussion. People are of the opinion that Tudd is a troll. If that is the case, why do they play directly into his hands by acting in such a manner? The Moderator team have given the same advice over and over again, what feels like thousands of times. Do not engage with him, do not read his threads. It has gotten to a point now where I cannot just ban him without there being evidence of wrongdoing, legitimate rule breaking. A vocal minority of the community have placed such a high level of scrutiny on Tudd that if I were to ban him now, it would set a dangerous precedent and I would feel I am giving in to the mob mentality surrounding him. It would not be fair or just. I closed Forum Discussion because nobody was heeding the advice given, to stop discussing Tudd openly (because after all, if he is a troll, that is what he wants?) and to contact me privately as per the thread rules. To date, I have only had 4 people send me messages, most of which do not contain any evidence at all and are just emotional rants about him. I am asking users to PM me with evidence of wrongdoing. I can then review the evidence as a whole, treat this objectively and decide whether or not to ban him. This is the same process I would use for any other user.
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