(07-07-2016, 01:57 PM)Croft Wrote: What new players will see is the wonderful drama of Disco were a mishandled ban is met by stagnation of progress because the best way to correct a mistake is with another.
U w0t? Correct a mistake with another? It's not correction, it's an attempt to pressure those who can actually correct that mistake so that they may indeed do so. Outside of the Admin and Mod Teams the Devs have the most influence to affect the process, without this initiative what do we have? Bunch of threads, optimists hoping something will happen, or that at least things won't get worse, pessimists complaining about the mistakes, "fearmongering" as you worded it, or just leaving, and no guarantee that things will indeed happen.
Oh and of course a bunch of folks putting their heads deep in sand, some of them complaining why the rest doesn't do so.
I may not join them if I were a Dev, but I do not condemn their decision either. Call it necessary bad for the greater good or whatever. Or just ignore it and live your life happily ever after, like nothing have happened. Like the bans didn't happen either. Best solution, it has to be working, right?