Banned for patronising a muppet

Stabshauptmann

I’ve been banned from the UCD forum for “personal abuse”. I pm’d the mod asking him to reference what he considered to be “personal abuse” and he said I had a patronising tone.

Personally I think that being banned for having a patronising tone is quite arbitrary and excessive.
I though that the point of warnings / infractions was to sanction posters in borderline cases. Surely that would be more appropriate than getting the banning stick out?

Short Story
El Siglo posted something completely wrong presented as a factual answer to a posters question, got irate at being corrected and ranted a good bit “I don't care, f*ck sake …It's a public forum, not Questions and Answers”, and I got banned for being condescending in my reply, in particular “You see, I wasn't actually threatening you, it was a "joke". One could say that you've made a "mountain out of a molehill". This is a figure of speech (stop me if I'm going to fast). I'm not actually suggesting you've made an actual mountain.”

Yes that is condescending, but hardly worth a ban. Maybe a warning to stay on topic, or an infraction if it was really *that* bad. But banned?

The long story
The thread was about claiming the dole, El Siglo said students cant claim the dole because then no one would go to college. I thought that’s stupid, but I didn’t attack the poster.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=60347828&postcount=19

El Siglo was a little annoyed I disagreed with him, and highlighted that I made a typo. This is something I consider to be very silly, so maybe I got a little patronizing, but it was meant in jest.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=60353251&postcount=24

El Siglo then goes on one hell of a rant, insulted me a little, said I had no sense of humour and rather than start slinging mud back and forth, I got a little condescending
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=60364068&postcount=27

I’m not denying that I was condescending, but I think its strange and bad moding to ban the person who’s being ranted it.




I’m not the perfect poster, I have been banned deservedly from fora before for personal abuse, but nothing lately and nothing because of a “tone”. I don’t have a problem with Raphel’s modding in general.


And even if it was borderline, I think sometimes the mod needs to use a bit of judgement. Some posters are muppets.
Look at this thread for example http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin//showthread.php?p=57637074
Look at the last few posts, 22-24. Same forum, same mod. In that case the mod had no problem with the poster being labelled a moron, whats more they agreed.*

Ofcourse we cant have the situation where people go around calling other posters morons because “they know better”. But once in a while, someone is a moron, or someone deserves nothing more than to be patronised**
I suppose that’s what really gets my goat – sometimes its ok by this mod ok to single out idiots, yet sometimes you can be banned without warning for being patronising.


*Why? Because putting in writing that your safety plan for an event is not going to be adhered to, and putting that advertisement on a board that the safety officer reads, is pretty moronic.

**Que some original humour

oscarBravo

Help Desk, tbh.

Stabshauptmann

It seems very disengenuous to me that complaints about moderators are moved to a forum that a)few people read / are aware of and b)nobody can reply to.