Quote from: Robin, post: 45155675, member: 157
I apologize if it falls under "relitigating bans", It covers the happenings of how an entire thread is going / is about more than a singular user and also involves implementation of threadbanning, a recent feature, so, I think it's worth discussion.
Thread banning is supposed to help equalize things and cool down threads without having to resort to hasty bans, but already it's becoming obvious that it's far too easy to misapply this power. We see it tipping the scales even further in the wrong direction in the recent Renegade Cut thread, where the user who has been antagonistic across multiple threads has a ban quickly reduced to a thread ban and an honest reaction to their shitty behavior results in a duration pending, presumably because it calls into question a previous ban that well, also was a reaction to the same users shitty behavior. I You accidentally got it right with the first banner "history of trolling and hostility against other users". That's what happened to Ketkat and it's what's happening to Rushersauce now. How can a banner referencing a history suddenly disappear become a threadban. If the user has a history, clearly the problem behavior is not relegated to a specific thread, leniency is inappropriate and reinforcing a pattern of behavior. However, if the history does not exist, it creates a new concern: why moderation was so quick to reference a history? What's silly is, the other user in question who is reacting to an encounter, is a much better application of a threadban, if any moderation is necessary at all.
Yes, I feel passionate about this because Ketkat is my girlfriend, but I don't think I'm being unreasonable in questioning how is this an appropriate application of power, and honestly I'm pretty frustrated. How many more TransEra users have to be banned before you action the verified user? Because our community is pretty much dead at this point.
