RolStoppable said:
Dravenet7 said:
My thought process is that people who want to make ban bets already have a long history of bans and probably have nothing to lose because they may just end up getting banned for a real reason anyway. Normally, I think ban bets a ridiculous and really a terrible kind of bet and a waste of the mods time. You can literally just leave the site for a certain period of time. People who take the bet may even plan that out. A ban bet only satisfies the notion of making the other suffer, not show a sign that he was wrong like having sig control.
However, considering the thought process I just mentioned, go nuts. I noticed a scenario not to long ago where someone was making wild claims and that person refused to address more than several comments that clearly disproved his comment, and only aimed from the ones that could be up for preferable debate. In that person in that scenario made a ban bet and lost, then yeah enforce because chances are they may try to weasel out of it. |
I don't see a difference in intent. Whether it's a ban, avatar or sig control, everything can be used to make someone else suffer.
We've had a terrible case of an avatar bet where curl-6 made the entire community suffer by picking Justin Bieber as avatar for Einsam_Delphin. I made a thread to ask curl-6 for mercy and pick a different avatar, but then it turned out that curl-6 had already tried because of complaints, but Einsam_Delphin turned it down despite not being allowed to have control of his avatar. Worst of all, the mod team declined to enforce the bet, so we were left with Justin Bieber for a full month.
That's why the mod team must enforce bets in the future. I don't want to live through another dark era.
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I... I was going to try to clarify after reading the first sentence, but after reading the rest and knowing what I know about those 2, 100% beleive it and I am very happy I wasn't around for that. You're right, that is true suffering.
