An appeal to TSR

are you going to post some pics of your trip to see jessicarabbit..?

ahhh oilcan is still remembered.
As much as i support liberalising this place - and i do whole heartedly, (especially D&D where attempts to satisfy some members calls for forum consistency' have stiffled debate) i just want to point out that 95%+ of the people banned will still coninue to. Most of you don't encounter trolls that much, but a great deal come on troll for their first 20/30 posts and are promptly kicked. Oilcan/bleddyn was a good example of this.

ahhh oilcan is still remembered.
As much as i support liberalising this place - and i do whole heartedly, (especially D&D where attempts to satisfy some members calls for forum consistency' have stiffled debate) i just want to point out that 95%+ of the people banned will still coninue to. Most of you don't encounter trolls that much, but a great deal come on troll for their first 20/30 posts and are promptly kicked. Oilcan/bleddyn was a good example of this.

I don't think she was referring solely to 'Oilcan'.

Indeed.

edit: And I agree on the grammer, punctuation front. Though, I think people are generally relaxed about that, but hey, what do I know!

(especially D&D where attempts to satisfy some members calls for forum consistency' have stiffled debate)

I don't think she was referring solely to 'Oilcan'.

I think people should relax about puctuation and grammar on that forum too. And stream of consciousness posts should be allowed because sometimes that's the only way people can articulate the distress they are feeling.

How is consistency relevant to the degree to which debate is stifled?

Because what may be appropriate for open and frank discussion in D&D may simply be inappropriate insulting behaviour in H&R.

And consistency within D+D?

i don't care about spelling or grammar, unless you are referring to txt spk in which case....no. Anyone who tlaks like that should learn it ISN'T a language, and HASN'T got a place in this world outside of their ickle nokia screen.

not sure what "stream of consciousness posts " are, but if it means blocks of writing with no discernable sentences, i usually edit it a bit to make it easier to read.

Because what may be appropriate for open and frank discussion in D&D may simply be inappropriate insulting behaviour in H&R.

it was a religious opinion

we're all entitiled to opinions

nobody would complain if the christians made apost about burning pagans/wiccans would they?

hmmmm...

sorry...

We are pretty damned consistent in our banning beyond the single post. If someone overall is a good, helpful member we take that into account. If someone has been warned many times previously - whether or not the warnings are expired, then they can expect to be modded a bit more harshly.

As for consistency of the ilk of 'you gave blah 2 warnings for this post, but relatively that post sort of, kind of, nearly says the same thing. I demand you smite them'. Then yeah, we are 'inconsistent'. And I'm pretty sure few care about it other than yourself.

Because 99% of the people banned here - troll or not, do not get banned because of one post.

Perhaps next time you ban someone for a largely factual post, you could elaborate on their banning. "bye bye" isnt what I would consider helpful, especially when they were giving a huge dose of warning points.