I would. You didn't necessarily call him a troll though, just that the act that he was doing at the moment can be considered as trolling ( I would have avoided the blatent part )

With all due respect though we all know that bannable accusations of saying someone's a troll usually go like this though:

"  I've seen you around this site and can't stand your posts. You are obviously a troll looking for attention so please stop"

Or they are usually a long winded post all about telling off that person.

I know it may be hard to wait for reports to be acted upon ( In fact it may be hours before a report is even read ), but if you consider a user as truly or "blatently' a troll than he will be moderated, at the end.

1. I meant I would defend you..sorry about that .

2. Indeed, as I said previously it is not up to the user to decide whether one is obviously trolling or not but it is up to mods to do so and then reflect this in the mod note.

You gave reasons as to why he was trolling, at the  moment, and placed it in the nicest way possible. While you still should have just reported the troller, you still shouldn't be banned for such a small post.

Obviously do still keep in mind that most "call out users" posts are 99% never like yours.

@Text in Bold: In the example " I've seen you around this site and can't stand your posts. You're obviously a troll looking for attention". The person posting that not only called him a troll but also suggested that the users behaviour around the whole site is that of trolling. No matter in what context you put it, it will be a moderation worthy post.

Also let's quote the mod rules on the matter ".

• Do not reply to other posters with simply "you're wrong" or by calling them a fanboy, idiot, troll (or any other sort of name calling)."

The key thing here has to be to apply a human touch to any such incident. In your case provided Rol, you are accusing another user of trolling and thus this would be seen as against forum rules. It's something that's been discussed before - several times (the whole "call a troll a troll" thing, I believe it was brought up earlier this week even) and yet here we are yet again with the same issue.

With that said and considering the context you provided I doubt that a mod would give you a 5 day ban for such a post, even if it was following the progressive ban system. I might have done before when I started modding but having learnt and listened to other users and mods, and having seen things from a different perspective, that probably wouldn't be the case now. As to what that punishment would be; it would have to go down to your previous history, the context of the thread and other posts in it and the history of the other user(s) involved. With this information, the mod team would then discuss the post (often at length) and decide on what would be the fairest punishment. The progressive system acts as a general guideline, but the most powerful tool in the moderator's toolkit is the power of commonsense.

You try and make it sound like moderation is ever constant, when that really isn't the case. No two cases are exactly the same and although frustratingly the same issues pop up over and over again, it doesn't mean that you can immediately arrive at a conclusion when you don't appreciate the work which goes into each moderation. It's all too easy to say what you are saying now, but there's an awful lot more to such a post rather than your over-simplified version, namely the human touch which an active mod team which frequently engages with the community can provide.

Well the next question you have to ask is, if you've already been moderated for the same thing before (at least two or three times you'd have to argue), then why are you still doing it?

The system which we use is one which gives the benefit of the doubt to the user in question initially; however repeat offenders get harsher punishments for repeating the same crime. Your example highlights an extreme case of where such a system can appear unfair from face value, but again that's where the history plays quite a significant part in proceedings. And I still disagree that you'd be given a 5 day ban, unless the previous moderations were also for calling a user a troll or for accusing another user of trolling (which I believe is the case here). Again though this is where the human touch and the benefits of a large, active mod team who interact with the community reaps rewards, and remember also that your case is deliberately highly specific and unusual.  

Having said that it is clear that your discussion involves the way Mr.Playstation inteprets the rules and perhaps the clarity involved is something that we need to work on further still. But as for the double standard you claim, that's something for him to decide, really.

Let's stop here. I'm sorry for even starting this argument back up, I thought I had a concrete argument but it's clear  I don't. I'm sorry about this and hope this haven't cloaded your judgement about me, as you said I'm still not fit to be a moderator, even though I never said something publcially about ever want to be a moderator but you're right. I'm still 16 and still somewhat new to this place.

For one thing though, I'm going to stop fighting the moderators fight ( or agreeing with them ) publically, they can do that perfectly fine themselves.

It may have been a mistake in this particular case, but having the forum software eating your post is an issue that applies to all bans. It's a race condition between the check allowing to edit a post (or make a new one) and the check done at the time the poster hits 'submit.'

Having the forum save the post before redirecting you to the ban page is the best option, IMHO. Adding the post / thread to the forum's database, but not making it publicly visible (like locked threads) is also an idea.

hi,my friend i am new here.....

Welcome to the site good sir! Hope you stick around a bit

@Major - That's right; I also believe it's something that Smeags acknowledged last week and said was going to be worked on, so hopefully that issue is resolved soon to avoid a repeat of this. It's all a learning curve after all.