(03-05-2026, 12:24 PM)quintessentone Wrote: Anyway, I did notice you do hover over that red button, but can you really bring yourself to press it when the time comes? I wonder.
I can. I will. I have.
I've gone so far as to ban one of our own moderators when they got out of line and would not get back IN to line. I took that personal - the failure was mine for allowing them to moderate to begin with.
With that said, I tend towards giving folks a chance. Anyone can have a bad day. If it becomes necessary, I will hand out a warning. If that fails to correct the behavior, I will issue what I call "time outs", where someone is banned from posting for a set period of time, starting at a day and escalating from there. If even all of that fails, then the ban-hammer comes down.
I give a person every chance I can... but when those chances are exhausted, they'll have to find somewhere else to poison the well. It won't be here.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake