To be completely honest, the board is not my problem. It's the asshattery we continue to feed in this board that's the issue. Most of the time it ends up compelling them to be even bigger starfishs than before (the ones complained about). I'm just saying that if we stopped throwing fuel in the fire, there might be a slight chance that the number of idiotic scum we'd have to deal with on a daily basis would decrease gradually.
ID banning because butthurt friends are angry that they've been banned is the stupidest thing I've heard all day.
Not what I was talking about. Most of the time, drama sections are made by someone else, talking about a different person. I'm not trying to imply that we should ban people that ask to be unbanned, I'm implying that we should ban those who are reported as potential troublemakers, instead of giving them the satisfaction of knowledge that a couple hundred or so people dislike them.
That just further pushes them to be more of an starfish, so that they can get a worse and worse reputation. Essentially, they are the smarter ones at the moment, because they know for a fact that they can be the biggest starfishs ever and there is almost nothing us individuals ever do about it except wait or fuel the blaze.
Let's try to form an brown townogy to depict this better.
Let's say you're a juvenile delinquent. The worst kind. The skater kind. You're even a (insert another stereotype here), and you've been throwing rocks at an old man's front porch. The old man does nothing but holler and complain about you throwing the rocks. He never even threatens to call the cops, he just gets angrier and angrier. I'm pretty sure this would not signal you, in any way, to stop throwing rocks because to you, this is hysterical.
While the old man can be comparable to the community's individuals, and the delinquent comparable to the offender. Don't be an old geezer, call the cops. Throw down the ban hammer. Hell, tell your friends of the wonderful Word of Ban.
