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Originally Posted by Dannyalcatraz

Just to chime in- I tend to actually seek out recently locked threads in order to see what happened. By reading the ominously colored text- even in threads I didn't or even have an intention to participate in- I constantly remind myself of the boundaries. It helps rein in my own baser instincts.*

Its worked pretty well so far- in all my time here, AFAIK, I've only had one "Time out" and that was for something I posted in haste while sleep deprived and thus was poorly composed...

Which resulted in an entirely justified kick in the pants because even though I didn't say what I meant, what I said was ultimately my responsibility...and what I said was pretty inflammatory.

On the whole, I can honestly say I haven't seen too much in the way of mods overusing the Banhammer. Keep up the good work, y'all.

* Which is why I once proposed having a section of the website- call it "The Abyss," why not- devoted to the banned threads. It might be more educational than the forum rules sticky.

I do the same thing.

I try to avoid the blatant edition war threads entirely (you can usually tell them simply from the thread title). I'll also tend to avoid threads that end up devolving into edition wars (even if the thread subject wasn't initially about edition wars - sometimes the "Edition Warriors" can turn even good and unbiased threads into edition wars, as I think almost happened with one of Xechnao's latest threads - the mods did a great job setting the tone early in the thread).

But, I will check out threads that were closed to see why, and just to see examples of what the mods are looking for. Humans are subjective and imperfect, but despite these shortcomings I think the mods here do a hell of a job. I can't imagine it's easy. Nobody likes being the bad guy (except for when they're DM'ing), and these guys take a lot of flack for it, but for the most part I think they are very consistent and fair. Their efforts do seem to pay off with a mostly friendly and helpful environment for the forums. I didn't get a "Time-Out" like you mentioned Danny, but I have had a gentle and well-deserved admonishment from Pcat. And he was 100% right.

I decided to take his advice after that and actually started to use the "Ignore" function for a couple of members. I tried to avoid doing that since I started posting here but after Pcats advice I gave it a try. It's honestly made my enjoyment of the site much better since. I find that I don't even notice their absence unless someone quotes them.

So, I'd second what you said Danny and say to the mods, "Keep up the good work, y'all." That is unless it's me that's screwing up.