That awkward moment when people are actually defending Inoobupro.
To me, this is like instant loss. The moment you try to suggest that anyone else was more deserving of a ban than Inoobupro then that's when you've lost.
Seriously though.. Tell me who is more deserving of a ban? His offences literally eclipse everybody else's offences on this entire forum.
I think it's disingenuous of you to say that it's because she doesn't like him. Are you forgetting who we're talking about here? First off, who actually likes him?
Even the Ku Klux Klan is entitled to freedom of speach. What sort of community ostracizes a person because they disagree with their point of view? It's not about what he said or whether I support his message. It's about the way he communicated his message. His methods were inappropriate. Perhaps we should have given him the opportunity to change them before we stood by as he was removed. I read, as most of you did, that he was given numerous chances and was guilty of numerous offenses. He was a part of this community whether you liked him or not. He deserved an ultimatum at the very least.
But here you claim no one likes him as if that is the only evidence required to prove the justness of his sentence. That anyone who could defend him has to be a monster and must surely be cut from the same cloth as he.
I don't like you, for example.. but you don't see me campaigning for your ban. There is more than sufficient reason to want Inoobupro banned and this is compounded by the fact that he was already permabanned once before.
I suspect the only reason you are not, as you say, "campaigning" for his ban, is you don't have sufficient evidence to see it through. Clearly you are the sort of person who would exclude people whom you dislike and would politicize your efforts. Now where have we seen this before?
This is exactly what
Lil did to
inoobupro. She chose an easy target, with a long rap sheet already weakened by a previous "permaban". She boldly flaunted her willingness to break the rules in order to attack him. She posted that thread with the impression that she could never receive any real consequence. An infraction... maybe, if I recall her wording correctly.
Lil used politics to remove a member of this community because she disliked him. She is guilty of the same infractions as he; trolling, flaming and disrupting the community.
It just so happens that we are not blind nor do we forget. Most of us have witnessed her behavior here and the way she treats others. It's not a matter of opinion or playing the victim.
Upswag mirrored her formula and this time she was in the cross-hairs. We see the results of that scrutiny.
Is this the manner in which we police ourselves? If we wish to be part of the greater whole it is our duty to care for our own. It is harmful to sic the mods on an established member of our community. If you do not appreciate someone here, I suggest you ignore them. If you disapprove of what they have to say, I suggest you use the features afforded you and block them.
If you all claim to care for the health of this community take care who you take action against. We are a sum of all parts and none are to be removed based upon some twisted popularity contest.
Be you mod or user. Practice humility, kindness and patience in face of adversity. Do not weaken.
I do hope it's temporary. I really still think permabans make an already small community unnecessarily tiny. Shrivelled. Anyway, why are her useful threads like for gear scaling deleted? Seems weird.
PS She's only banned for a week.
. And while it may not be *everyone* I'd say many people have had some sort of memorable interaction. I've said my piece.
