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The only appropriate course of action and yet...
@Ruler_Star_Kuma:
One, two, three
@TMaakkonen:
One
@SnakesCity:
One
@BlackDarkness679:
One
So, specifically after AnAverageUserName's rant (because hell nah am I persecuting stuff from months ago), we have these. Surrounding context for many of these are blatantly Sean starting some form of trolling or mockery. However, I highlight these because they either get pretty personal (Ruler straight telling him he's broken), are very directly mean spirited (Snake calling him stupid for Sean joking), or are pretty over the top responses to pretty harmless banter (BlackDarkness telling him to shut the **** up and he's just seeking attention)
Even if we end up deciding that all of these have the mitigating circumstance of Sean being a genuine nuisance (and I decided to not even bring up a couple of other comments taking this into account) and/or are minor enough to not warrant warning, I want to very formally highlight that these should not be the response to someone like Sean. The appropriate response is to ignore him and build a case against him to bring up into the RVR. The fact we have now built a culture of ganging up or blowing up on someone (as even Weekly is subject to constant ridicule in this particular thread and stuff from before AnAverageUserName's have him and Sean as punching bags) for almost literally just existing in the same space as them, does not sit well with me. Regardless how annoying they are. It's basic human decency and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect this of our users.
I will let the rest of staff evaluate this and won't be voting myself for these
particular cases.
@Ruler_Star_Kuma:
One, two, three
@TMaakkonen:
One
@SnakesCity:
One
@BlackDarkness679:
One
So, specifically after AnAverageUserName's rant (because hell nah am I persecuting stuff from months ago), we have these. Surrounding context for many of these are blatantly Sean starting some form of trolling or mockery. However, I highlight these because they either get pretty personal (Ruler straight telling him he's broken), are very directly mean spirited (Snake calling him stupid for Sean joking), or are pretty over the top responses to pretty harmless banter (BlackDarkness telling him to shut the **** up and he's just seeking attention)
Even if we end up deciding that all of these have the mitigating circumstance of Sean being a genuine nuisance (and I decided to not even bring up a couple of other comments taking this into account) and/or are minor enough to not warrant warning, I want to very formally highlight that these should not be the response to someone like Sean. The appropriate response is to ignore him and build a case against him to bring up into the RVR. The fact we have now built a culture of ganging up or blowing up on someone (as even Weekly is subject to constant ridicule in this particular thread and stuff from before AnAverageUserName's have him and Sean as punching bags) for almost literally just existing in the same space as them, does not sit well with me. Regardless how annoying they are. It's basic human decency and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect this of our users.
I will let the rest of staff evaluate this and won't be voting myself for these
particular cases.
