Unban Stir & Lighten Up & Appreciate the Community More

[DJ Yoshiman]

This'll be relevant to the topic depending on the answer:

Are any warns and punishments to members publically viewable by any one registered on the forums?

No not yet, but this was suggested a while ago and I believe most of the stuff found it a good idea.

Okay, so that suggestion is probably a good idea that ties into this particular situation.

A take-away for this situation would be similar to when I was managing a store and we had a very problematic individual. Eventually I had other staff come to me saying "I don't understand why she's still working here and hasn't been reprimanded at all." For privacy reasons, so it can't be used for fuel for staff to harass another one, I told the staff that they are unaware of everything that had been done already, and I cannot disclose it, just like I won't disclose anything regarding them to other staff.

As some one who hasn't been around to know and understand the situation, I can just come out of this saying "good god, a year ban, who the hell deserves that after one bad act?" But if the individual had a bad habit of infraction after another, we don't get to know or see that, and if we did, it would suddenly make sense that they've received the ban. You'd have to look at everything as a whole (and obviously as a consistent, constant string of bad behaviour).


As for the viewing of warnings and punishments, that could lead to harassment and/or members bringing up those actions to bring even more heat into a potentially horrible argument. It's a tough choice to make, and dependent on whether the staff want a proactive style or a reactive style.