VCreed32's ban: temp or perma?

[MKTerra]

VCreed32 wonders whether his ban is temporary or permanent?

[Brandon Hanvey]

He is temp banned for 2 Days. He will be able to access his account after 8 AM PST on 09-15-2005 .

[Arrjay]

Not sure if I'm allowed to know this but what did said poster do wrong?

[Brandon Hanvey]

Not sure if I'm allowed to know this but what did said poster do wrong?

The poster did not heed a mod warning.

[Greg Hatcher]

Spammed the moderators and tried to drag a different board into a silly argument on one particular board here; I gather in hopes of trumping up some sort of 'evidence' for a rules dispute.

Normally we would not discuss this in public at all. It's nobody else's business. But I'm answering this because, first of all, it is the lamest sort of juvenile argument, about on a level with trying to play one parent off another, and secondly and more important, it accomplishes nothing except pissing off the people that you really should want on your side if you have a complaint about a moderator.

Have a dispute with a moderator? Feel you're not being treated fairly? Email one of the others here, or PM. We will listen, especially if you approach it like an adult and make a dispassionate, reasonable case in private as opposed to making a great big tearful public drama out of it. Drama gets you nothing but derision, because really, this is the equivalent of putting notes on a bulletin board to your pals. Chances are whatever the problem is can be worked out, but not if you're going to come on like some paranoiac conspiracy theorist who's just annoying people.

Done talking about it now. Injured parties can PM or email, gossips will be left to speculate.

[Greg Hatcher]

All right. I'm going to jump back in here long enough to add that in this particular case, he didn't GET the warning I e-mailed him, so what he was being punished for -- ignoring the warning -- was actually inadvertent. That being the case, I lifted the ban.

Even though this is still no one else's business, I wanted to clear it up and make the point that if you think something is unfair, it really is easier to simply e-mail one of us and ask, instead of ginning up a Giant Moderator Conspiracy in your head and martyring yourself to it. Apologies to VCreed for jumping the gun, and now that's really the end of it.