[quote name='Trakan']I'm not hiding from anything. The Vs. forum is mostly an un-moderated forum, compared to the rest of the site. I usually leave it be, but I've seen some of the shit that is said in that forum from reported posts, and I don't blame any mod for temp banning people for it. Temp bans are usually handed out on a per-moderator basis. When I temp ban someone, I do have the option of showing them the reason, and I do.
I will warn the user either in the thread or via PM before I do so though.[/quote]
Firstly, thank you for making an appearance, especially as a mod, to give some insight. This actually clears a lot of things up in regards to some of the mechanics of bans and the nature of moderating Vs. Us regulars all know that mods are mostly hands-off in Vs. except for extreme cases and that's been relatively consistent since I've been a member, but this has changed.
The main issue I have is with the bolded because while there's a reason, it's still anonymous and from who I've seen disciplined, there's just a complete lack of consistency especially in Vs. For instance, there have been about a handful of permanent bans last year that mostly consist of super racist trolls that decide to try and turn it into Stormfront over the course of a couple of days that get banned, yet you have someone like halo4/05(?), who's offense was calling them out for what they were, getting banned as well. On the another hand, you have other trolls that don't go whole hog and passive aggressively troll for years.
For a long while, posts were just pulled and edited, but no bans, temporary or otherwise. I know for a fact that before I was even a member, when there were a bunch of CAG's that just couldn't get along, they were all told to put eachother on ignore and if they directly addressed eachother again, there would be permanent bans, but at least this was a two-way street. Lately, all I've been seeing is one way (temporary) bans with no warnings whatsoever. I also know for a fact that I'm being targeted by one particular CAG and he's probably targeting a couple others. Why this particular CAG doesn't receive any scrutiny or reprimand is beyond me.
Correct. Cheapy and us mods discuss everything in a private subforum. As I mentioned above, most temp bans are dealt with by a single mod, but we discuss permanent bans before any action is taken.
Glad to know there's a protocol. Just for clarification, each mod has the power to temp ban someone and it's up to each individual mod's discretion, right? I'm assuming that there are specific mods per subforum.
pseudo edit: I agree with mykevermin in that transparency would be nice, but equitable enforcement is far more important.