Have the officers in this website been alittle strict lately?

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Actually, I'm more likely to lock this thread because of the annoying caps lock paragraph at the beginning than a dislike of the topic. I don't really care if people discuss this stuff to be honest.

Although I must agree with Montana, these threads inevitably oversimplify every example situation that is brought up. Often times members are unaware of information that the mods have and sometimes its just because people like to remember the situation in the most favorable light for themselves. Just ask any prison inmate if he is guilty and chances are he will explain how he was wrongly accused, framed, and then wrongly convicted...hell if you go by the criminal's account of events we have a prison system full of 99% innocent people, and justice system jokes aside that is obviously not true.

Unlike a normal member when a moderator sees someone make a questionable comment we don't get to just scroll past and have a nice day. No, moderators have to open the person's post history read through recent posts, look up their ban & warning history and read through it, and then make a determination of whether or not its an actionable offense.

And if that wasn't enough when we ban someone we have to figure out a way to best convey all of this information inside of a 1 or 2 sentence blurb (preferably along with post IDs and thread IDs) for the ban note. Then finally we go make a note of the infraction for other mods to see in case of future problems. And if that wasn't enough we also have to deal with complaints and bitching from people who think they are above the rules and can't believe that we would punish them because [insert lame reason].

In short, its a job. And I'm confident I speak for all of the mods when I say we would appreciate it if you guys would please just give us the benefit of the doubt. Contrary to paranoid logic the mods aren't out to get anyone who doesn't deserve it, and as many have echoed in this thread if anything we are a bit to lenient on people by issuing warnings to begin with. Most sites just ban without warning and usually for substantially longer periods of time.