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moderation has always seemed odd to me. i try my hardest to believe that people in online communities can more or less police themselves and just conversationally suppress or cold-shoulder problems.
for the most part, i think that's true. this board is more or less a pretty successful experiment in that respect. there's far less moderation here than in most forums. people generally take advantage of the simple forum structure to isolate drama. i have a lot of respect for the members of this board.
most sites would immediately re-ban returning banned users. i think that's absurd. if someone wants to come back and they jump thru the hoops of re-registration, it's apparent that they want to be involved in the community to which they're returning. if that's the case... fine. start over with a clean slate.
in the cases of the users whose profiles i've manipulated... how many moderators would go thru the trouble to do that when it's so much easier to just click the ban/delete buttons? even if people have colluded to irritate me in a personal manner, it's better to just let everyone see that for themselves and let both sides of the conflict express themselves than it is to have one person take some rash action and give the other party no means of responding.
people get carried away sometimes. it's easy to do. it doesn't mean they're incapable of toning things down though. believing that people are incapable of realizing they've pushed things too far and then relieving them of any possibility of proving otherwise is senseless.
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