thanks for the explaination but i seriously doubt his actions were in any way malicious in the way you described "doing whatever he can to tear people down".
does this mean that every time we (or anyone) decides to post a sarcastic remark about anything we are subject to a potential infraction or ban from mods who don't know us, or our extremely awesome sense of humour that obviously doesn' get conveyed on the internet?
what
Well, if you're doing it over an extensive period of time, have a number of people report your behaviour, and ignore all infractions and temp-bans relating to it, then yes. If you're not, then you're fine. I think I can trust you to use your judgement on the difference.
So some no name moderator, who has nothing to do with /our/ community, jumps in and dishes out a permanent ban on one of /our/ community's most valuable people, for zero reason. After which we're fed some non-specific garbage about his 'constant negative behaviour' and how he 'tears people down' and makes them 'leave the site'. Please, spare us the canned nonsense. Anyone who's been here for more than ten seconds knows that it is complete and utter bull****.
Really? So luke's a nice guy, never insults anyone and gets along with all in the community? The reason I'm being non-specific is because it's site policy to discuss the specifics of bannings with that person only. It's a privacy issue. If Luke wants to make a thread in Forum Support about it we'll be glad to give him solid details and specifics, and if he wants to then share it, that's his decision.
Jungle was just the person who clicked the button. It was discussed in the senate and was a group decision. It wasn't someone just randomly clicking a room, randomly clicking a thread, randomly clicking a user and clicking ban.
Luke is a cornerstone of our Australian Smash community, respected, liked and cared for by the vast majority of active members. The massive uproar that this has brought up is demonstrative proof that this is the case. To come here and enforce this ludicrous ban on the whims of some cherry picked 'negative behaviour' is simply ridiculous.
This is why no one respects Smashboards moderators. Your complete lack of discretion when applying the 'Smashboards greater will' destroys any semblance of community that we, the people, have created, and we don't appreciate you doing it. And now we all see why we're considering moving elsewhere.
Chu-dat, HugS and now luke, have all had people claiming they're "cornerstones of our community." No one's ever denied that. However, they had also been rude, crude and disruptive. Harrasment doesn't get overlooked because they're good at smash, or host tournaments. As for 'people have been considering moving elsewhere', other than the people that had already been leaving because of the actions of luke and others, you've had a fairly lax moderation back here. If you're asking to have a full crackdown, we could probably find a good handful of infractions for people back here. Do either of us want that? Hell
no.
If those that want the ability to continually harass entire segments of the Aussie smash community without repercussion want to move elsewhere, they're entirely welcome to. I don't think those who just want to discuss and run smash tournaments without the enmity would mind.
