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<blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 5505912" data-attributes="member: 99">He's referring to the moderators as a group getting to play OD&amp;D with Gary Gygax at GenCon several years ago.&nbsp; There's a link in my .sig describing the game.As for the point that Dumb Paladin is asserting, we do take into consideration a posters history when moderating them.&nbsp; But, as far as I'm concerned, that works more against them than it does for them.&nbsp; If they have been around a long time then they've been around long enough to know better than to break the rules.&nbsp; I find myself cutting more slack to newer members who may have less of a grasp of the rules.If you want a great example of this, perhaps you recall Shadzar.&nbsp; He was, in my humble moderatorial opinion, a real dick.&nbsp; And yet he posted here for quite some time, getting reported multiple times in numerous threads for generally being rude.&nbsp; We didn't boot him from ENW immediately.&nbsp; In fact the process was far slower than I'd have preferred precisely because we wanted to give him every opportunity to adjust his behavior before kicking him from the site.Another member with very long standing (whose name I'll decline to mention) was recently permabanned for a single egregious infraction of the rules combined with creating an alt to circumvent the ban.I'll say that we moderators are human and there are several of us so of course we're not going to be 100% consistent every time.&nbsp; But I put a great deal of stock in the good judgment of my fellow moderators and I find that we generally try to err on the side of being lenient.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rel, post: 5505912, member: 99"] He's referring to the moderators as a group getting to play OD&D with Gary Gygax at GenCon several years ago. There's a link in my .sig describing the game. As for the point that Dumb Paladin is asserting, we do take into consideration a posters history when moderating them. But, as far as I'm concerned, that works more against them than it does for them. If they have been around a long time then they've been around long enough to know better than to break the rules. I find myself cutting more slack to newer members who may have less of a grasp of the rules. If you want a great example of this, perhaps you recall Shadzar. He was, in my humble moderatorial opinion, a real dick. And yet he posted here for quite some time, getting reported multiple times in numerous threads for generally being rude. We didn't boot him from ENW immediately. In fact the process was far slower than I'd have preferred precisely because we wanted to give him every opportunity to adjust his behavior before kicking him from the site. Another member with very long standing (whose name I'll decline to mention) was recently permabanned for a single egregious infraction of the rules combined with creating an alt to circumvent the ban. I'll say that we moderators are human [I]and[/I] there are several of us so of course we're not going to be 100% consistent every time. But I put a great deal of stock in the good judgment of my fellow moderators and I find that we generally try to err on the side of being lenient. [/QUOTE]

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