Basically Kapi deliberately broke the rules and reported himself to get banned because we didn't grant him a permanent one at his request, which is something the mod team no longer does.

The warning isn't there (I looked. Must have been a direct message). And yeah he reported himself.

Kai made a comment. Got warned for it. That pissed him off. So he wanted to get Permabanned. VGC doesn't do "optional" permabanned. So they said no. So he went around trolling forums, and then reporting them so the mods knew.

He has been creating fake alts and spamming etc to try and get perma-ban.

I am responding to a later post, but I am quoting this one again for the full context that would otherwise not be there due to the auto-cut feature of quote trees.

The reason why the suggestion that numberwang could come in here to defend himself is a good laugh (my initial response to this same post) is that it's not going to happen. He already dodges responsibility and accountability in his own threads, so he sure isn't going to enter a thread where the usual forum replies don't apply. For him, providing no defense is much preferable to trying to provide one because he knows what he is doing.

Outside of this thread, the forum rules are stacked in his favor. The mod team generously leaves it at edits to his threads without any penalties (as seen above in Bandorr's post) while the community's hands get tied by rules that prevent it to call him out. Should it happen anyway, then the community receives a penalty (as seen with vivster's ban). Simply put, the role of the mod team in this scheme is the one of an involuntary supporter of a political agenda; the mod team acts as an enabler, as a tool, without realizing an underlying connection between events because the overall interest in political threads is so low that no close attention is paid to what's going on.

Inside of this thread, it's possible to address numberwang's actions without fearing a penalty, so this is the sole place where the rules are in the community's favor. Here is no mod protection and numberwang knows that any open discourse is a huge disadvantage for him, because it would expose him for what he is: A far right person that grasps for any straw to push his political agenda on a video game forum.

@numberwang You are welcome to explain your existence on this forum, but I know you won't. The very thought of playing with open cards scares you to the bones.

The role of the mod team is not up for you to decide.
As for the appropriate course of action... The mod team tends to deliberate on issues, if you feel there is an issue, bring it up with a moderator and we will discuss it. (Or not if we think it's just inter-personal dramatics.)

As for Political threads themselves... There is a reason why their interest is low with the mod team, they tend to be a pretty toxic environment. - Some of us are trying to engage with those threads more frequently, for better or worse. (Myself included.)

Nothing wrong? He didn't offer a constructive outlook on the Catholic Church's current issues, he called it a cult and claimed that its members were following blindly. My local church even spoke out against the scandals just this past Sunday, so his post was absolutely a generalization grounded in ignorance.

CGI made the right call with the warning. If posts like that were ever deemed acceptable here, I would have no interest in this community.