Might as well post my reply to you here.

When it comes to long time users, moderation is very dependent on that user's history. Kowenicki is a valuable poster but he has an attitude problem when it comes to arguing with people. He often resorts to ridicule, condescension and rudeness when "setting someone straight". The way he phrases his replies doesn't invite conversation, it invites confrontation.

The irony of it is that a calm response with the information about the September meeting and the information about Microsoft's division would have been more effective in shutting up misinformed people who commented in the thread.

He was being an a-hole. It's one thing to correct someone or to point out a mistake, but it's another entirely to go around mosting the same thing over and over again in the same thread all the while insulting the other people in it.

For instance, it would have been fine if he had left out the last line of his first post. But he felt the need to do more than just correct people.

Oh, alright. That makes sense.

That's just business, like when Cartoon Network got a president who didn't understand the appeal of cartoons (which led to the disastrous CN Real experiment). It's part of the problem of seeing "business" as a separate category from "industry", or like how career politicians can be bounced from the Finance Ministry to the Transportation Ministry to the Foreign Ministry when they can't possibly have the right expertise in all three fields. In this manner, you get a lot of people who really don't understand the business they're in, or may not understand the division that they are overseeing even if the know the "industry" as a whole, and this could be quite detrimental.

Ideally executives should be promoted in a very straight hierarchical fashion (rise up through your division to head your division, then onto central corporate matters), as this gives them a strong emotional investment and trust level with the people they're overseeing.

It can lead to myopia in some cases, but i think it's better than people who have little love for their own product radically changing it due to a mere lack of understanding.

The users  that reach the 30 days limit are the ones that are most likely to get permabanned. There are some exceptions like Carl and Snesboy that had their trollish periods, but became nicer users in the meantime.

He didnt insult people, although you just called him an a-hole so yaknow.

He pointed out the people who were laughing about it in the OP and opening post and was mocking them. Granted, mocking people is frowned upon but is it really a moderatable thing considering so many people do it here daily.

Dat mod queue o_0

*waits for kresnik to post the picture*

Yeah, last few hours seem to have been crazy! Let's see the pic!

Goodness me, you guys have been busy.

Oh.

Look below (well technically above this post).

123 freaking reports...just death.