@Putinforgod  
You’d punch me too?

@SocDev  
You’d punch me too?

@Background Pony  
It’s probably just you.

@semerl  
I would expect to be punched in the face if I went insulting everyone else without reason.
 
You should too.

@semerl
 
Ad hominem.
 
He made an example of what could happen in real life. You turned it into a way for you to judge him on a personal level, based on your opinion.

@semerl  
I think there’s a stark difference between “something you don’t like” and “you’re a pigshit kid-fiddling horsefucker”.
 
But that might just be me, dunno.

@TheLoneLampman  
You’d punch anyone that says things you don’t like?

@The Frowning Pony  
Something Awful really lives up to its name, huh?

@semerl  
Sit back and learn how regular civil people interact. It doesn’t take a scholar to understand what a vulgar hostile comment consists of.
 
Try going up to random people in real life and call them inbred horse fuckers or what have you. Did you feel that fist in your face? That’s called learning. Sooner or later (depending on how many times you need to attempt this before it sinks in) you may figure out that it’s not acceptable to do that anymore.
 
FYI, we’re not talking one-strike-you’re-out bans here, so hopefully you’ll learn how to interact with one another eventually.

@Miss Shy  
Just because you say that doesn’t mean I should stop blabbering.

@semerl  

@TheLoneLampman  
What is justice if we have differing ideas on what’s just?

@semerl  
I don’t know what you’re getting at with what you just said.

@The Smiling Pony  
Damn, SA really has fallen from where it used to be. Now it sounds more and more like the true hell of the internet.

@soundtea  
SA is moderated by vast amounts of opinion and butthurt. Every moderator does whatever the hell they want, and bans whoever they want based solely on how hard their feelings were hurt or how unfunny they found a certain post.
 
It is by far the worst moderated site on the internet. 4chan as a whole has much better, consistent and fair moderation than SA.

@TheLoneLampman  
Go cry US a river.

@soundtea  
Gently caress yeah it is.

@The Frowning Pony
 
I just checked the guy’s tumblr.
 
Man, and he says we are bad for insulting others.

@The Frowning Pony  
Isn’t SA by now as censored as your average Cold War era Soviet nation?

@Dale  
The truth is, most of the bans that are issued due to personal attacks/insulting posts come from me.
 
If you honestly think that calling someone a faggot, asshole, dickhead, etc. is acceptable civil behavior, then you just might need to learn the hard way what “being excellent to each other” means.
 
For example, if you say something like “I don’t like your opinion, jerk”, that’s not something to sweat over. Toss out something along the lines of “Go fuck yourself and die in a fire, autist”, then you best be expecting to have a day off as a result.
 
I do not care what people think of me if that’s what their definition of excellence is.

Also I can’t help but remark that guywithstuff, aka http://mikedawson.tumblr.com/ believes we should moderate in a fashion similar to Something Awful.
 
For those that know how SA is “moderated”, just let that sink in. For those that don’t know, well, you’re better off that way.

@Dale  
Well said.

@Dale  
TheLoneLampman follows the same rules other staff members do, he simply has more tolerance to read through all these comments. By and large moderator action is decided between at least two other moderators in the admin IRC*. If someone gets moderated, it’s not because one staff member wanted it, it’s because one highlighted it and two others agreed action was necessary.
 
^{*excepting cases where things are painfully obvious}

@TheLoneLampman
 
Let me try again. People generally think they’re following the rules, whatever they have to twist around in their head to justify it. Another admin passes through, and they’re not banned, now they really think they’re following the rules. You show up, and they are banned. They’re not gonna think they broke the rules, they’re just gonna think that you, personally, are a dick and/or Incarnation of Scruffy.
 
Being stricter than the other admins isn’t going to accomplish anything other than making everyone resent you personally. Especially when you come out and say you’re gonna enforce differently from the other admins. You’re putting a giant ‘SCAPEGOAT ME’ sign on yourself. Y’all need to be conferencing in secret and presenting a united front to the users.

@semerl  
I believe censorship has no place where none is enforced nor expected.  
I fully believe in censorship where it is enforced and expected.  
To use all-or-nothing mentality is foolish as there’s a time and place for everything.