Oh knoes!~ teh bolder! :lol:
Yep. Back to the old habits.
Sweeney, you know better that anyone thats horseshit.
The TOS is enforced about as rigidly as ... ... something not rigidly enforced...
People has different levels of tolerance and different threshold for which they see as infractions.
Look at the difference between the moderating styles of Shrike and Jaket.
Both enforce the TOS as they see fit, but the end result tends to be far, far different.
I'd imagine that both think they rigidly enforce their interpretation of what the TOS is.
Of course, that interpretation many times just doesn't jive with what other do think that TOS says.
Jimmie has broken an innumerable amount of rules and still strolls around like his a dick... err cock of the walk.
Jimmie is an anomoly, and most people know that.
I don't think there is a single other poster that could get away with what he has, but that's all part of what you have to deal with if you want to use the boards. This is CheapyD's site after all.
Hell, Even I have numerous infractions and I'm still here.
That speaks more to the mercy of the mods more than anything else.
Yes, the threshold for what one must do to get completely and permanently banned is high, and that will lead to many people abusing that freedom, either because they are immature, or just a horrible person... but would you really have the opposite, with an overly oppresive, low threshold for frivolity enforcement of the rules?
It's hard to find middle ground on such things...