That is indeed very harsh. One little mistake and the whole account gets a ban with all posts deleted? In my opinion that's not fair. One mistake would result in something like a 10-day-ban. The second violation would result in a 30-day-ban and only by making a third mistake the permanent ban would hit with all posts deleted.
Wouldn't that be a better solution
@CoolKevin ?
I laughed at one little mistake
I draw your attention to the thread title, unfortunately his other thread banned again was deleted under same action, and you will find it is not just 1 mistake, I maybe wrong, but I think there was at least 10, and his other account I have forgotten, how many warnings had been issued, and the frequency lately has really stepped up, we are going through several reports every few hours, and most are cashlinks
we have a very good attachment system now, and C00Lzero set it up nicely, it is easy to use
1) Really, "you would have to be there" to get a proper perspective on it. The amount of spam I used to deal with here as a mod (I have no idea exactly how bad it is now)
2) A lot of improvements have been made to the forum since then but there are also less moderators to do the job. Coolkevin, and I don't always agree with his heavy-handedness
3) They could probably do with 20 more mods here and then maybe the staff could ease up a bit but they have tried adding mods before and I believe chompy is a little frustrated over finding good ones.
4) Keep in mind as well that you don't know the particular situation between this uploader and the staff either nor or you likely to. The current climate is more a one of "keeping things in house" and the staff talks amonst themselves about things they would never share on the board. Personally I never quite understood that attitude but it is what it is. Likely they have had problems with this uploader before or assume he is a previously banned member who should know better or perhaps that he is part of a multiple account.
1) spam has increased a huge amount
2) heavy handedness, and I thought I was the tame one, and on this one it was more than one person decision to ban, I tried to stay out of it, (I got fed up with it, and was angry, thus clouding my judgement)
3) true more are needed, 20 well a nice thought,
4) yes even I do not know how many times he has been banned, I know of at least 3, and if I dig a little I will find a lot more
If we posted the reason why we ban everybody, I would be typing non stop, and it would get very tedious, in IRC we used to get it a lot as well