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Part of the problem is, I have no idea how to present a fair and balanced punishment for Weekly without coming off as incredibly biased. He's burned bridges with damn near everybody that merely suggesting a ban could come across to him as targeted harassment.It is bewildering to me that a user on this forum can, prompted by nothing but the sight of a user that he hates, fly into such vicious personal attacks on said user and be met primarily with the thought that he should just be warned. Even though, for years, he's received warning after warning, slap on the wrist after slap on the wrist, several demotions and a ban, and has shown no signs of ever improving at all within that span of time.
Weekly is treated poorly, yes. A lot of users have it out for him, and will target and **** with him when he's done nothing wrong, because he's seen as an acceptable target. People will clamor for any chance to pick a fight and harangue Weekly and Weekly alone over shit they wouldn't bat an eye over with anyone else. It's happening right now on another thread, even. This is bad and things should be done about it, because even if Weekly isn't around, this sort of mindset will result in other users being targeted and harassed. It's unacceptable, and I don't think the people who participate in it so eagerly should be staff. We - well, you, I guess - should be better than that.
None of this changes the fact that Weekly's own behavior generally ranges from 'fine' to 'terrible'. He's already been banned for a year before - this isn't some unprecedented behavior. It's completely unacceptable, and the fact that somehow the wiki has reached the point where nobody even has the balls to suggest anything harsher than two weeks for something that would've had a new user out of the door for a month at least is utterly insane to me. Weekly's done a lot, yes, and he's had to deal with a lot of shit, yes. I still think he should suffer actual consequences for this.
Has some unfathomable change occurred since I retired? Is claiming that someone's IQ is lower than their shoe size, and then going on to describe them as one of the most vile, vicious, and hateful people you know now just something you'll just get a slap on the wrist for? What the **** do you need to do to get banned for just a month now? Threaten to murder someone? Christ.
I've mostly kept out of Weekly reports for that exact reason and I'm pretty sure others have too.