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Originally Posted by Dezzy

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. .

Thanks for explaining, but there is another problem...because speaking for myself, I wasn't around to see the whole thread and the numerous insults which you speak of and other members may not have been either. I don't think I insulted anyone, otherwise I would have been given an infraction for that...and I certainly wasn't in any heated argument, if I've totally forgotten then remind me? I pop into a thread when I have time, others may do the same, why is anyone infracted or banned who may not even know posts were deleted - where did it say this had even happened? So giving out infractions or bans to anyone who went off topic after the fact with no real warning isn't fair either...3 points for everyone, regardless?
I've been here a long time and have never had a ban, and to get banned for well, nothing really is annoying...petty on my part really, but still...