Stan wrote:I think you just never had a bad experience to help you appreciate it here.
Hmm, go to a forum called "Hikiculture" and ask about Dream, see what the community and staff tell you about me. Aside from that, i used to be a low post-count member in the PWOT forums, where staff can be really harsh and have been known to ban people on the spot or with pretty much no warnings. I also used to be part of a forum where noobs were treated like shit, mods didn't do anything about it and took part on that occcasionally, left the place when someone called me insane among other things. And i also lurk on /ic/ if that counts. I would agree that this is not exactly extensive experience, but i would say i've seen my share of dickhead staff.
And yes, no one is perfect, however i don't think that should be used as a constant justification for unreasonable slack on a duty that was willfully chosen.
Regarding your one month example, i found myself in a similar situation (on the Hiki forum i mentioned, by the way) but with an admin. Got perma-banned, no appeals or other chances given, the guy is convinced i'm "evil" (his words) and doesn't want to hear anything about me nor did he let me explain myself. Somewhat ironically i'm actually ok with having been banned from there and i can understand why i got banned since some of the things i said weren't exactly friendly, but i find the perma extent as well as the utter belief on me being irrevocably and absolutely evil a bit of an overkill, if only for reasons more moral than personal.
Also, i don't think Jimbo or AWL would describe the mods in here as fair or good, going by what i know of the atrocious way their incidents were handled. Granted it seems that they have gotten kinda better at this nowadays but it's still very cringe-worthy having to see some of those things from the old days.
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