Sabre wrote:Has somebody died Magus?
Sometimes when you (the forum) talk about the bans and cards it's as if the banned people are sent to a concentration camp never to be returned. And it's not the case, they're simply allowed not to post and in this after match incidents, it's normally for a short while. And then allowed back. Nobody dies really, Magus.
Magus, every ban and card has a history of spats behind, and the mods are in better position than you and me to know it. The mods do this for free and the least we can do is not to question every decission. You read isolated incidents, they read all the complains, all the threads, and they track the users. And that's not fun. Judging their decissions analysing an isolated incident is not fair, nor explains their decissions.
I don't think it's fair to assess that they have been banned thinking it was not a penalty. They were banned after many pages and when they were talking about liars and setting records right, and making public PMs.
And those users have a record. Remember the thread of LegBarnes asking cards for Lando the other day? that was just a public one, one of the dozens of complains and asking for cards the mods privately receive. Nor you nor me know the details. Nor you nor me are moderators. The bloody mods are not paid for the job, they rarely get a "thanks" for it, at least could we stop questioning their job every time?
As for Mick's opinion, I don't understand it. I don't think there are two sets of rules for antis and pros, and when I looked at the cards both sides have I can't confirm your pattern. Staunchiest pros like Lando have 4 cards, I have one (for using 3 words of a PM publicly you see, but as I say every card has an history Mick and the mods had been asked repeteadly to card me), Number9 had four, Ciggy had one, Emerald has one. Out of these some people have been banned too. So you move on, but you don't move on Mick because before you "move on" you tell them publicly they're biased. Class that.
Everyone of us could tell the mods whether they're biased or not, as everyone of us could give our opinion. I could defend the opposite of what you're saying about the moderators, as everyone of us can find decissions to back our opinion when taken isolatedly. And believe me I could make a case out of my complains. But the truth is that I'd feel shame of doing that publicly. I know it's not fair. It's not on. Let them do their stuff, and when we don't like it we always have other forums.
For once, I think we should leave them doing their fúcking job, and assume they'll make mistakes, and assume sometimes they'll put posters on the fridge (antis and pros) when the situation is unbearable. You know perfectly it doesn't take much more than apology and a chilling down to come back to posting within a few days. So let's not make a drama out of this.
As for the penalty, Magus, I'll talk when I'm a bit less angry, tomorrow or the next day. I'm controlling my blood pressure these days and I can't talk about the penalty right now.
