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some background
the offending pics in the Trips forum were posted as part of a multi-page thread about a trip.... two buds on the road... well as is apt to happen they found things that didn't go well or weather that wasn't so nice and they expressed that in pics clearly marked as ,, this is how we feel about rain.....
I didn't know ANYTHING about any other finger pics until a post was made in this forum in response to the Ban, and it seemed that that pic was aimed squarely at this board and it's moderators. As such it got deleted.
There *are* differences in how we moderate. We interpret the guidelines independently because there is no other way. There are just too many posts and users for all of us to know what all others are doing. We are just volunteers, with lives of our own to live. We are not perfect.
Again... the finger pic thing may have been the start, but Cheap chose how to end it all by himself by having a temper tantrum.... what if a new user, or someone that could be great for this site came into that thread and read Cheaps post... it was quite the colored message. Had he chosen to say .. Hey... how come the disparity, I would have been brought in on the discussion, we likely would have removed the finger pics in the trip report and all would have been as it was.... that isn;t what happened... Cheap blew it way out of proportion and made a mountain out of a molehill that as a result has cost me, and a few other moderators quite a bit of time that we don't really have.
Regardless of how it got to where it got to, there was a incident that demanded the user be banned... if ANYONE were to post a message with the fword repeatedly used, they'd likely face the same end. Cheap unfortunately had a "record" of previous infractions, and it made his case even worse.
I only know cheap from a few posts on the board, and I don;t follow this forum at all.... he was one of a few thousand users, and if any other user did the same thing, I would react the same way again. We can't judge from what the user base does "out there", we can only judge from what happens in here.
Cheap himself said he had no desire to talk to anyone here about it, so it was a dead issue for the Mods... this discussion hopefully outlines why and how the decision was made.
If any of you went to your Boss' and said this place reeks and started cussing up a storm about an issue, I'd bet you'd expect to not have your job. That's because that is not how you affect change there or here. You do it by bringing the issue to the Boss in an adult manner and hope that they can see your way..... hopefully we can move on. Can we?
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