How to improve the site?

Public ad hominem attacks on moderators and the site owner, me, will not be tolerated. They will result in an immediate week long ban and, as applicable, disqualification from any tournaments in which you are enrolled at the time of the ban.

Judgment of bans will be done by me or Yanny since we are the only ones with those privileges. The other mods do not currently have access to ban members. Since Yanny is not around much, it will be me doing the bans.

Moderators try their best to maintain civil discourse and I have instructed them to remove both spam and flame or flame-baiting messages. No selective edits, just complete removal of the questionable message. Constructive criticism may be allowed but it must be constructive and diplomatic. Ad hominem attacks and name calling will not be tolerated.

This policy is effective immediately. Insults on the site owner, however, are retro-active and I will likely be banning a particular person for a comment made last week.

Just play nice and all will be well. Disagree all you want, just don’t call people names.

Thank your for the private flame Jen.  I really enjoyed just reading that in my e-mail.

In case you are not aware of it, NONE of the Mods can do a damn thing with bans, changing settings, or anything else.

The problem you are facing is a CODING ERROR brought about by the requirement of the admins to change the coding of the site to allow for GD Banning.  We were never set up for that, only for PD banning.

The reason you have a problem with your account is that you repeatedly, after being warned, continued to post flame bait in the General Discussion area.  That you posted flame bait was confirmed upon review by a Site Admin and they attempted to change the settings to have your current “disciplinary group” status ban you from posting in GD for a week.

But we are sorry, when the site was set up 6 years ago, no one ever planned on having to deal with that type of BS in the General Discussion forum.  And when the Admins attempted to change the coding last night, they apparently did not get it completely right on the first attempt.

The only reason you are having a problem is that you:
1.  Flame Baited in GD
2.  Repeated the flame bait after being told by a Site Mod to stop
3.  Argued with a site mod on a public thread about their warning to you for flame bait posts in violation of forum rules.

3 strikes, you got a 1 week ban.  Sorry that you did so in a place that no one ever thought it would be an issue… and that in an effort to adjust THE ENTIRE FREAKING WEBSITE to account for YOUR violations the coding was not done properly the first time in order to take limited action against you as originally intended.

Perhaps, in the future, if you avoid flame bait posts, or if you listen when you are warned about continuing down a certain path of flame/flame bait posts… then perhaps you need not worry about your account problems in the future.

And this thread is LOCKED.