Just ban anyone that posts anything that resembles trolling or flamebait. Don't give warnings, instead give a 1 day ban, because a warning lets someone troll without consequences. That's the easiest way to do it, and I've seen it work on other sites. Mods shouldn't have to walk on eggshells, posters should.

You need glasses pal. I never said you called Wii a toy, I said you got banned cause you broke the rules, therefore:

1.You didnt read them.

2. You are a troll.

3.You cant read properly.

 You know the easiest solution is to just not be disrespectful right?  I'm not saying you do this, I'm just saying if a user doesn't want to get in trouble don't post stupid shit that they know will piss people off.

I'm not saying you can't think the Wii is toy, but if you go around calling the Wii two Gamecube's duct taped together, the 360 the RRoD machine, the PS3 a stand alone bluRay player you know you're only posting that to make people angry and be disrespectful.   If you don't do that kind of stupid stuff you have absolutely no reason to worry.

And also, we can't read every thread.  I've had people complain to me that someone got away with whatever in another thread countless times and they just couldn't believe it.  When I asked them if they ever reported that person they of course said no and that of course is the (or at least a) reason nothing has been done. 

As mods we're often accused by someone of not doing anything until we do something, at which point other people will claim we go overboard. But rarely does the same person accuse us of doing both at the same time.

Anyways, I have no idea what incident started this thread, but I'm inclined to think it's yet another case of our jobs being partially based on discretion. Different people "discrete" in different ways.

 so, because you originally thought I got banned for calling the wii a toy because i used that as an example in my post, and then i said that i didn't get banned for calling the wii a toy and then you looked through my post history and indeed saw that i didn't get banned for calling the wii a toy, this is what you came up with?

 umm... Leo just got perma-banned...

To be honest, the only problem I've had with moderation on this site is how it can sometimes be. For example, Leo publicly admitted dodging his extremely deserved 2 month bad, and claimed his "completely reformed" conduct proves how he should be a mod. Nobody raised a finger.

Dodgy or missing ban reasons aren't nice, but that's not exactly a huge issue, and easily fixable if there are enough complaints.

while some bans seems very harsh, they are supported by the rules, so quick solution... read the rules, long term solution think before posting nonsense or offensive contents.

So if someone were to make a thread bashing a console manufacturer and then say they deserve to go out of buisness and imply that the continued existence of the console harms the game industry the thread would be locked right? Cause unless something changed one of those exists right now, with mod posts in it, and with at least one person reporting it. I have never seen a more blatant attack on a console without merit than in the original post of that thread and nothing was done last I checked.

I want to clarify I really like you as a mod. I enjoy seeing you post in threads because it reassures me that trolling will be kept to a minimum. Sometimes I have to question other mods decisions though. I don't have any specific complaints outside the fact that ssj12's sig is annoyingly long, but there is a lot of inconsistency. The specific example really riles me up because it wasn't even a stealth troll but a blatant troll topic.

Ugh, I saw that and wondered, "Why is it that people like Leo-J do things like that and get no punishment, not even a warning, yet other people do all sorts of minor things, and get an instant ban with no warning?"

However, I think that a Perma-ban on Leo-J was just a bit unnecessary...

Moderators are suppossed to do exactly what their name says, provide moderation:

mod·er·a·tion [mod-uh-rey-shuhn] –noun

Now, I'm not saying that all mods are bad, Naz and Stof are great, along with many others.