Admin Feedback Thread (Archived)

[Jansen]

For a sanction to be processed, the violator needs to have actually broken a rule. All sanctions are voted on by Mods and Admins, if there is a overwhelming majority either way then it will be dealt with accordingly. It's also really fun.

That way of doing it seem a bit inefficient. I mean, needing so many people doing one simple job is kinda odd. What I would advise is allowing one admin to do the sanction, and if the violator thinks that the sanction is not fair, he can ask another admin to review the case. Then you can play a voting game, or perhaps just let other few admins to review the case. What is bad in this idea?

You caught us on a good day, we bump chats to get people to give their opinions. Normally sanctions are filed two or three at a time. Or perhaps this sanction was so blatantly obvious that there was no point in asking people to spend time writing a reason.

This sanction wasn't blatantly obvious, as the arguments to my sanction were weakly based on guesses. Admins or judges should not view only one side of the conflict, don't you think? I mean, the other side of the story have just as much right to live, unless there is evidence to prove that it doesn't. No?

Im not sure, but on the one side you complain that sanctions take too long to process, while on the other side you want to make the process even bigger by collecting more input, which will definitely take even more time. It sometimes takes a week or more to contact some people if evidence is missing in their sanction, good luck if you need their input and expect things to be fast.
Having only one person deciding on sanctions is not going to do the sanctioned person any favor, believe me when I tell you that you would not like the results. The way its working now is to offer the community a certain kind of quality control in decision making, if you had only one person making the decisions you would have more mistakes in sanctions because its sometimes just hard to see the whole picture, while on the other hand, you would be subject to the opinion of one person. While we do have standardized punishments for most cases, they still come with a certain degree of variation in harshness, so if I consider a violation to be a very bad one, I will give you for the highest punishment possible, while another Admin might think that its not really a problem and might just warn you. Having multiple people discuss this, helps to find a consensus.

And to answer your question, this is an Admin feedback thread, which also includes the Moderators considering that they are part of the staff, but I certainly wont mind if people that have an opinion post here, especially if said people have knowledge on how the system works or want to give constructive criticism.

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