Re: Important moderation message, please read
I'd like to preface this by saying it's good to be back, as I've been away from this forum for quite a while.
That out of the way, I've read through everything thoroughly, and I tend to air on the side which believes this may have been overkill. I believe nocturnus stated it sufficiently eloquently, so I'll simply note that I agree with the stance taken here. I am not fluent in Spanish, but I am in French, and I can say that the same problems arise as Nocturnus stated. In addition, I have, through the playroom, seen a number of international users who seemed to believe one phrasing was correct, when another was. Just this morning, I received a request to "talk for" someone, which actually meant to "talk to" someone. Irrelevant, you may say, but language barriers do and always will exist regardless, and expecting that just because someone joins the forum, they should understand perfectly, is not exactly a good policy. And to Dark, I have sene some syntax of yours which is not what might be called correct English, often times in spelling, so in such cases I can't say that a non-native English speaker is to decipher what was written.
Now, onto the rules. The rule against cracking reads exactly as follows:
4) Posting warez, cracks, serials or hacking tips is not allowed.
I suppose the thing to quibble over is that never in this rule is it said that asking for cracks is illegal. IN such a case, I would personally simply have made it explicitly clear that such a thing is illegal before banning for it.
I am one of those who do not make any real use of Pm'ing, but I will say that such a measure as an indefinite disabling of the entire PM feature for a few posts is overkill. You didn’t' stop anything in particular, as such cracking discussions moved off site; all that was done was to inhibit onsite communication among the innocent. A number of posts made doesn't much prove how good you are at following the rules, as it is possible to machine gun a number of useless one-liner posts (I've seen it done myself).
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