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Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 13, 2024

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I valued her posts here greatly and I still think that chasing her away was a bad call.

There’s no point in enforcing the rules on a purely formal level if said enforcement decreases the overall quality of the forum.

She was not banned, and while I feel bad that she decided to leave, she was not "chased away." Like Hlynka, she was told over and over again that the rules still apply to her even if we like her, and she decided that was intolerable. It was too important to her to say exactly what she wanted to say exactly how she wanted to say it.

Yeah I kind of agree. I feel the same about Hlynka.

This place is much less interesting without these big personalities. I wish they had gotten a bit more leeway, even if they were annoying to keep in line.

A sufficiently big personality doesn't find any amount of leeway to be enough.

They both got a lot of leeway, so much that we got a lot of flack for allowing it.

Ahh yeah fair. Perhaps I'm just looking back with rose tinted glasses.

"He was banned because the (actual) Nazis followed him closely and reported every faux pas" is the argument you're running with now?

That's not what he said. And it's also not accurate. I liked Hlynka quite a bit, but he was prone to getting pissy and going off on people. That's against the rules, plain and simple.

Yes, and as we always hear it's not possible to enforce the rules 100% evenly because the mods can't be everywhere, so they rely heavily on reports.

A frequent poster with a 'fan club' following him around reporting him every time he gets pissy will attract a lot of reports, simple as.

In the case of Hlynka, his rule-breaking posts were generally highly visible, and usually when he broke the rules he did it with gusto. He simply was not willing to abide the rules, so eventually he ran out of second chances and was banned. I don't think him having a "fan-club" of reporters mattered much one way or the other.

I suppose -- he was about as discriminating as a largemouth bass in terms of bait-taking, which didn't help.

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