@whacker
1.
- Behavior:
- Do not persecute, harass, or attack others.
- Do not troll, bait
It’s always warranted a ban.
However if an attacked user doesn’t report the attack we could very well miss it and the offending user will then go unpunished.
That you may of seen this happen once or more times doesn’t mean we let it slide, it just means we missed it and or no one reported it.
With that said we of course will not punish users for this if we see that they are obviously friends engaging in what the mafia and or regular Italians may refer to as “ball busting” or “breaking one’s balls”. These terms basically mean the same thing as cg’s “roasting” term but once again usually only applies to friends and or people who know the other’s intent is not malicious.
2.
As Serge told me in a private discussion long ago shortly after making me a moderator…
“Just because you’re a moderator doesn’t mean you have to take crap”.
If memory serves correct he then followed up by basically telling me since I had the power now I could then ban someone for offending me as any other mod would or might do were I just a regular user reporting my being attacked to them.
So what you and much of the userbase don’t seem to understand is that by becoming a staff member here that doesn’t automatically mean that I or anyone else has to acquiesce to being a verbal punching bag so that you or anyone else can feel comfortable with the power imbalance.
All we have to do or should do is be fair and make the punishment fit the crime.
Dude that I don’t know calls me a retard I’m immediately going to think he did it with malicious intent in order to make me angry, piss me off, live in my head rent free etc, etc.
Well knowing that this attack cannot go unanswered, while at the same time maintaining a professional and respectful demeanor as an admin to the potentially viewing/lurking/onlooking userbase I’m certainly not going to engage in a retarded and demeaning pages long back and forth totally ridiculous and ultimately pointless flame war with the dude that will only serve up entertaining infighting content for our enemies of IT to screenshot and laugh about as well the lowest of the low drama cravers here that just want to grab some popcorn and watch another stupid e-fight.
No.
I’m going to handle the issue decisively and return any intended butthurt that was gift wrapped especially for me right back to the sender with an all paid two day vacation to ban land.
Plain and simple.
I’m sorry if he didn’t mean it the way that I thought he did but it’s a risk that anyone takes when they engage in ball busting/roasting of a person/user they don’t know.
And I hate to use a convicted and deceased serial killer’s quote to end this with but since his words are appropriate for this post in particular here goes nothing:
“They wanted to play with me but I didn’t want to play.”-The iceman Richard Kuklinski