(08-05-2019, 01:07 PM)HylianDev Wrote: calling it a grudge might not be far off. and I'll take all the blame if necessary; in my time as modmin I've enabled it as much as anyone else for sure. heck, I was the catalyst for The Lockening. I find it honest to characterize some staff actions & attitudes as simply wanting Stir gone. Putting aside any thoughts about whether this is right or wrong, it became more of a game of citing Stir posts and thinking "what can we do about this?" I've said multiple times "why haven't we gotten rid of him yet". I remember proposing something along the lines of: "let's tell him he's on thin ice. then let's totally leave him alone, not get into arguments etc, and as soon as he inevitably does something where he's in the wrong and we aren't, let's perma ban him." that's a grudge wrapped in authority; authority might be necessary, and regardless of whether that was a good or bad idea, that's what it was. he wasn't supremely destructive to the site, he was destructive to the staff.I need to clarify that while he was destructive to the staff, as Dustin said it was the former staff who already left. I'm pretty sure none of the current forum staff hold any grudges towards Stir in the same way or think with the same mindset, and the current ban of Stir is unrelated to that.
I mean I will admit, I was expecting Stir to break a rule again, but I never had the mindset of "let's trap Stir into a corner" or was looking forward to that.
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