Elf said:
In all truth, the moderation team has had several conversations about Mike1984 and his behavior before. I was the swing vote on pretty much all the occasions. Altima would vote in Mike's favor while DP obviously didn't and Roadbuster wasn't too keen either. So it was up to me to decide.
Well, I don't tend to hear about any of this, so it's rather difficult to judge me based on it....
It wasn't an easy decision.á Not at all. (And honestly I thought it was going to be for a 1 Day Ban and not a 3 Day).á However if we let one person get away with some of the stuff that Mike has then there will be others who would try to take advantage or worse.á It was one I didn't want to make, but I had to be objective and put my personal feelings aside.
There's the long and the short of it.
Hang on, but how could you have not even known the length of the ban. Surely you voted on that...?
And, honestly, can't you take circumstances into account? I accept that I fucked up, but so did everyone else, and your new rules didn't even
exist at the time. You only introduced them
afterwards, and then applied them
retroactively.
The situation you've now put me in is
horrible, and I
really do not appreciate being a sacrifice so you can keep "order". People cannot "take advantage" if you are actually thinking about things and acting according to the circumstances and not just according to the letter of the rules.
Sorry, but I simply cannot forgive you for this. You've put me in a horrible position, made me angry and depressed, and for
what? So you can say "look, see, we
do punish people"? I know you did not do it out of any kind of malice or personal dislike, but I am still
extremely upset at what you did, and that you
knew it was wrong, and still did it
anyway.
Rules do not
have to be followed,
ever, and there are
always exceptions. I know I really did fuck up, and I am sorry for that, but what you did has achieved
nothing but to make me angry, jaded and totally distrusting of the moderation system. Further, I now do not feel comfortable expressing my opinion because I'm worried that I'll get banned.
So, thanks a bunch for that, Elf....