Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4363364-20160912152745

Oh boy, the shit I'm going to get for this.

I know I haven't been very... talkative, outside of chat. And even in chat, I don't voice my opinion too often. But, lemme explain the situation I came about today.

I'm finally settled in London to do my gap year, which means I finally got time to come back here, and yknow, do stuff(mainly working on the Avatar fanon, but whatevs). I see a couple of notifications up on my screen, and decide to check them out. And then, I see this: http://deathbattlefanon.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:232747. Did I click it cuz it was Warp's instead of the title? Probably, but that's not the point(although it may tie in a future discussion).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the gist of this new rule is: insta-ban every spoiler that ever happens, no questions asked. Fuck context and circumstances.

I could honestly ramble about how freaking unfair this is for newcomers, but that's not the worst part of it.

We have been dealing with abusive banning for a long time already. Why add some more to the mess? You guys need to remember that ban is supposed to be the ultimate punishment after blocking, and should be treated with more care. And no, I don't care about how long that is. A ban is still a ban. So every smart-ass saying to me that's it's only 24 hours can hereby leave their argument in the idea box.

To put things into perspective, let's imagine a situation: person 1 comes onto chat, with X number of people in it(cuz the number of people present doesn't matter). 1 spoils a fight, although on accident.

Now, we have two different situations here:

-we can go for the old rule, and warn him about his mistake. That won't happen again. If he does it again, then he would be banned for X amount of time, because this was a repeated offense. He deserved it.

-we can go for the new rule, and ban him on the spot. The guy will feel bad about the situation, feeling as though it was unfair. A newcomer would straight up leave the wikia, thinking that people that ban for a small mistake aren't worth hanging around with.

As with many things in life, context seems to be constantly ignored. People focus on the act, and not the intentions behind it.

Let me say this straight up: I AM NOT AGAINST A BAN FOR SPOILERS. I am against an insta-ban for spoilers.

Has the spoiler been known for acting like a dick before, and hence this new offence would be interpreted as of malicious intent? Have at him.

Has the guy done it on accident, not thinking it would "hinder" the happiness of some individuals for a few hours, and sorely regrets his act? No, no, a thousand times NO.

You're asking for a "compensation" for being spoiled? How about avoiding future spoilers and enjoying the presence of new members by adopting the correct attitude to said spoiler.

I am honestly baffled by the number of people who think spoiling something should be punished as heavily as a public humiliation, or a constant harassment. How do you even put these things on the same level of offense?

For all intents and purposes, if you absolutely want to do something more than a warning in reaction to a spoiler, then KICK HIM. People will start to get fed up by me repeating it, but I am not joking or in a joking mood here. The kick button is there FOR A REASON. It's there to signify to the person in question that he did something wrong and shouldn't do it again. It acts as a PRECURSOR to the ban, and SHOULDN'T be skipped. I CAN NOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH.

Adopting this rule would go against all the work we've been trying to put in for the last months, in order to make this wikia a better place to live in.

I haven't even talked about how childish I consider this motion, because I realised since my last post that this may come as presomptuous and pedant to some. But don't believe I don't think it nonetheless.

My mini-rant is over, and I hope this gets highlighted so that more people can see this, whether they think I've got delusional or not.

Just a little word to close this: I wholeheartedly agree with the reasoning of the newcomer who was banned by the new rule in the example given above. 