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Rule Violation Reports - 26

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Kepekley23 said:
Okay, so why are we banning a guy who actually legitimately apologized, didn't know it was forbidden, is normally a nice guy, and only tripped as opposed to warning him he should never do it again?

This seems pretty different from the Turles hentai guy.
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Banning him seems extremely unnecessary and out-of-place here. He didn't seem to have any malicious intentions and just posted it out of obliviousness, heck, he even apologized for it

At this point this is the same as banning him just for the heck of it
 
To be fair. Apparently an admin had a nudity profile avatar once? If so maybe a warning (he obviously have been warned going off the thread posts for the link. Harshly at that as he was actually insulted a tad ) would be enough.

A first time offense from a thing that wasnt even on the wiki seems mild.
 
A decent record of being a generally great user? . Apologizing . Plus also an honest mistake. Plus an offsite link which is as far as my opinion would go mild .
 
If the rule said it was against the rules to do it but gave no indication of a punishment I would agree, but it spefically says that it willlead to an autonatic ban.
 
Chartate101 said:
If the rule said it was against the rules to do it but gave no indication of a punishment I would agree, but it spefically says that it willlead to an autonatic ban.
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All rules have exceptions.
 
Look, the dude made an honest mistake. That's fine. Nobody's saying he's a bad person. But he still broke the rules. A ban would be to show any potential offenders that doing what he did isn't okay under any circumstances, not necessarily to punish him for doing it.
 
I'm pretty sure no one will think "Wow, I was about to post a **** link, but since Danny was banned, I will not post it." If anything all the warnings and the commotion caused will suffice to remind anyone.
 
So? Exceptions are made often. Especially for admins and this user had a decent track record.

Hypothetically what if an admin accidentally posted a link of hentai? Example he copied the link doing whatever he was doing then forget copy a different link or post or uncopy the link and posted the hentai by mistake? Although despite being accidental and the user had a fantastic previous record and not once did any bad thing would the admin be banned because he broke a rule?.
 
Danny intentionally posted hentai, he just didn't know it was against the rules. Not the same situation.

If I start selling drugs and tell the cops I didn't know I was breaking the law would they just let me go?

I'm fine with whatever gets decided, I'm just explaining my personal viewpoint.
 
It was clearly a mistake and he took full responsibility. Since he has a clean and consistent record, I don't think he should be banned. A warning would be best, after all, what's to gain of banning him? No one who intentionally and knowingly posts hentai is gonna get stopped cuz someone who didn't know it was against the rules got banned
 
I am uncertain. It is a borderline situation, as we do have a very explicit rule about this, but on the other hand the member in question was simply clueless, otherwise harmless, and apologised. A week isn't a long block period though.
 
But it's still unnecessary and would be banning just for the sake of banning. The lesson was already learned, punishment is not needed.
 
It is probably best if only the admins who set the blocks post their views about the issue from now onwards in any case. This thread is getting bloated with replies.
 
I would say a ban is reasonable option. No offense to the guy, but we need to set an example for everyone else so this kind of mistake will not happen in the future.

Posting pornographic, as far as I know, is one of the most intolerable violation in this wiki. Whether it was an honest mistake or not, we can't really tell which one because we are just some people in front of a computer/laptop/phone, interacting from far far away from each other through internet.

That is my opinion of this issue.
 
Homu makes a good point. I think that a week-long ban is an acceptable compromise.
 
Did anybody delete the image file in question?
 
That is a good point as well. So should we block him for a week then?
 
The thing is, the rule he broke, intentionally or not, is one of the most "sacred" in this wiki. Had it been any other violation, banning him would be unreasonable. But posting pornographic? It is inexcusable here as far as I know.

If we let this slide, I'm afraid someone with the intent to break the same rule would be go unpunished just bcause he says "I didn't know there is a rule about this" or "It was an accident", because we cannot possibly know which one is the truth.

Also, I genuinely apologizes about my wording. I'm not really the best with words.
 
A week long ban is barely anything, may as well be a slap on the wrist. It doesn't matter if he didn't know, we have to maintain the rules, and we can't make exceptions all the time.
 
Okay. Thank you for the input. I will impose the ban then.
 
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