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Originally Posted by jet
The problem here is the inconsistency between the mods in handing out infractions and bans.
Members got infractions by you, several leading to bans for going 'off topic' ---
Niamh had posted:
"Back ontopic please" - that was it, 3 little words which I have never seen leading to infractions if some don't listen immediately - there was none of the usual "listen up now! infractions will be given if people continue to go off topic", which is the way it is normally handled, which gives people a fair chance of taking note and cooling off.
But you have said those words 'Back on topic please' were a WARNING which they were NOT and you handed out 3 point infractions. Why?
I don't believe Niamh or Vicky would have done this, imo, so really its a problem if mods don't have definite guidelines to follow and stick to it, for the sake of fairness, otherwise its going to cause bad feeling.
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It's quite common for mods to hand out infractions when we've spent ages selecting potentially hundreds of posts (INDIVIDUALLY!) to delete them and only for the same argument to occur in the re-opened thread afterwards. Pretty much all the people involved in that argument and who got infracted, bar perhaps Twosugars, have been around long enough to know that you don't continue an argument after it's been deleted. The people who got pushed into a ban certainly do know that.
The fact that the argument was also very intense and insult heavy also played into the points given. I came in into that thread to hand out those infractions about two or three pages after Niamh cleaned it and stated that she had cleaned it and, tbh, three points was probably not enough for some of the things that were said but since I decided to go with continuing a deleted argument as the infraction reason, which everyone was guilty of, that's why I went with a universal three pointer.
Three points isn't really a heavy infraction in all honesty and I personally thought it was a fair amount given how heated the argument had become.
In future, I shall remember to deliver a warning for the benefit of newer members but in the case of members who have been here long enough to know the rules, it should be common knowledge that once an argument is deleted, it should be considered be over or else infractions are dealt out. .