Re: I probably shouldn't be posting this
You don't know how to use the banning feature?
That should be like, day one of moderator school.
If your scared that they will be banned for too long, then just set up some sort of calendar event the day you ban them, to remind you to double check that their able to come back how ever many months from then it is, or at least keep a textual log of banns and expiration dates and share it with the other mods.
It's not like Dark is around, being understandably busy with his new fiance and all, and your pretty much the only active moderator, which means you really need to step up to the plate, weather it seems fare or not, since there isn't anyone else to do so, unfortunately.
I'd apply to help out, and I think I could be pretty objective actually, even though I can get pretty fired up, as long as I'm trying to be understanding, I know I could do it.
But to be honest, even though I would give out warnings first, there would be so
many people gone so fast it would make people's heads spin, and I would probably get removed out of fear of abuse, even though these are people that, lets be honest, should already have been long gone by now and just keep causing problems, again, and again, and again... With virtually 0 consequence for their actions.
They wouldn't be able to help them selves, warning or no, it's in their nature it seems, and it's not like warnings ever stopped them before... right?
Sorry you have to be the bad guy now Aaron, but you did sign up for this, knowing that this duty might fall to you, so I think it's time to start taking out the trash.
You should probably put up some sticky topic or something first, just to warn everyone that the hammer is about to fall and let them have a chance to be on their best behavior.
And just to be clear, I'm only talking about maybe 4 or 5 people who can't help them selves and just constantly break the rules, along with the idiots that join just to be idiots on some topic that's already been lit aflame, who, lets be honest here, are probably just alternate accounts of someone already causing problems on it anyway.
I know you don't want this to turn into the kind of place where everyone has to watch their back for the tiniest infraction, lest the mighty moderator flies down from the sky to strike them down where they stand, and neither do I, but I don't think that asking for this level of control is an unreasonable request, and it's not the first one of it's kind either.
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