Administrators: Member Suspensions.

[Dab]

Related to this topic, I would like to add that I have also been sanctioned for things that I do NOT remember doing or saying, and the posts where I allegedly said it were invisibled.

If you are going to sanction someone for something, dont hide the evidence.

Forum rule violations are violations/rules because they should not be present on these forums. So of course we remove those violations from view, but keep them invisible instead of deleted, so as to have documentation and record keeping, and so that we can show evidence when requested. This is especially true of spamming threads, trolling, flaming, or insulted. The first is obvious, the latter is because, if they are left there, they anger those it is directed towards, which further fans the flames and makes the situation get worse. Also because we do not ban people for first offenses. Only for repeat offenses. We are not going to just leave the threads there so that they continue to cause trouble, hate between community members, or further spamming of threads that should not be spammed.

About the 2 moderators that must agree.

2 is not a lot. What if there is a "dream team" of two moderators who are friends and know each other for years and do each other favors and are equally biased towards the same people? Chances are pretty high for that happening if you require only 2.

There is no "dream team" among the moderators. Even if there were, the other moderators and admins would notice this easily and stop it from happening. Moderators and also admins are not free of scrutiny from their fellow teammates. We have a policy in the Moderator chat (and I assume the admin chat as well); If we think you (another mod/admin) did wrong, we make sure you know we think you did wrong.

If the situation you use as your example were actually happening, you'd see a heck of a lot more tempbans than you do. Malicious banning tends to be very obvious, as well as fairly continuous/regular. No one here has been "regularly" banned.

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