Poll: Jetblack & Doj

[Jack_Henderson]

I voted "maybe", and it needs explanation.

Reasoning:

The ban is useless.
You proved there is no way to keep players off the server and forums if they are clever.

Consequence: The useless ban forces you into a "criminal" role. Your participation on forums and server automatically are perceived as trolling, so even normal participation that was not intended to be "bad" would be judged as "against the rules". It doesn't give you a chance to be good. It actually almost forces you to live up to the community's expectation by the means of a self-fulfilling prophecy model.

Let's be realists: Sindrom's first podcast showed that you do not deserve to get a second chance. I find it remarkable that he voted with "no". If the mechanisms to keep people like you off worked, we would not even be discussing this.

Seeing that this does not work, I actually prefer the choice: "play legally but try not to be assholes".

Looking at the status quo makes me think that the amount of trolling and asshattery would not be significantly higher, but perhaps likely even lower if you were not treated as outcasts but allowed to be back legally.

And... likely, I would regret my optimistic appraoch later on when I find myself as the target of the trolling again, but that's what I think could work for the server and somehow I can't help but give people second chances.




On an unrelated note, this pretty much sounds like the arguments my students use when discussing legalization of soft drugs

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