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So? Case and point actually. You just said that as long as the math is fine you don't care, meaning the only actual issue at play here is "They had bad behavior that may or may not even be relevant to this specific context". If that's the only argument then yeah, this definitely dives into policing. Banning dudes from partaking in threads for bad behavior is to prevent that bad behavior and so others don't have to deal with that shit, but if they're doing their own thing, off forum mind because blogs and sandboxes aren't actually part of the forum, then so what? Yeah, they're presenting an opinion, we can just ignore it if it's bad, and if it's good, well why would we ignore it? The only issue is where it's coming from but if the info is correct, it's correct. Ultimately not of that matters though, it's on us to decide what we use, we can ignore him, we can choose to use whatever he spouts, and the only thing he needs to adhere to is that he is not allowed to actively participate in threads he's banned from. Of course, there was mention of him bickering with CGM's, in such a case the CGM's can choose to simply move on if he refuses to cooperate as we'd do with anyone who acts like that, topic banned or not. If a calc has a fucky and he refuses to fix it, we just don't accept the calc, if he fixes it, then even better. In the end we still shouldn't police blogs like that tho, worst case, we just do what we did with Butter and ignore his calcs unless he shapes up, but he should by all accounts be allowed to work on them, publish them, and do whatever he wants really as long as he stays out of threads that his ban actually covered. To put it simply if you want, think about it this way, if he makes a calc and isn't bothering dudes trying to enforce it, it should be fine. And if we or someone else wants to make use of it, like say a CGM looks at it, think's it's good and eval's it, that isn't him circumventing a topic ban, it's us interacting with him, not the other way around.Not only if they're looked at lol? Making the calc itself demands that you present your case. Being topic banned for a time means you are disbarred from this for poor behavior. We should not say "You are topic banned but as long as its on a calc and not a thread then you can say whatever you want". We should not afford an individual the means to bypass such a ban.
If someone on Discord wants to act just as poorly and be a mouthpiece then we'd topic ban them, too. If it's just presenting math, as long as the topic banned individual isn't involved on-site, then I don't really give a rat's ass.