Recently, our staff has been extremely lenient on this whole flaming ordeal. There should be a lot more bans in place then there has been. Constant flaming, rudeness, insulting has been given to members who don't quite deserve it. Then people turn around and claim our staff isn't being fair. While I agree in some cases, our choice of punishment was a bit harsh, but I look around and I can see why. I'm almost 100% sure our administrators are fed up with this constant flaming. I agree dealing with new members and newbies to the RPG Maker scene can get annoying. Its hard to fight against ignorance without showing a bit of rage. Everyone does this, its normal. But when it gets to the point to where you're just flaming someone just because of previous bad experiences, something needs to be done.
Examples sake, Tazero (aka metaknight at one point) was a just plain annoying at one point of time, banned once or twice. (Too harsh maybe?) But he's come back several times, changing his attitude and behavior, yet people still hate on him. Everyone has been given a second chance at one point in their life, so why can't some of the members who feel this is a safe environment, even call this place their home, get one? I'm being a bit of a hypocrite here because I myself have almost refused to give some members a second chance. Then we look at the members who have been given several chances, who's had the luxurious feeling of being showered with chances. As a staff member here at Chaos Project, its in all honesty my duty to try and prevent this. Or to blatantly stop the problem from where its coming from. I myself have flamed members just for being ignorant and stupid. I also took my punishment for it. A lot of you who have been doing it has easily escaped that. I just want to say I myself am not going to tolerate it much longer. I'm tired of seeing silly little arguments in the shoutbox over nothing that even matters. I will start banning people, I will start holding my duty as a moderator.
Now I'm hoping this community can be forgiving, can return to a nice community as it once was. Thriving with activity and everyone getting along, no matter the situation. Now I know I can't just ask for activity back but I can ask for politeness. I want to be able to put everything bad behind us and try and start fresh. Forget about all of the ignorance, forget the fights, the arguments, everything thats negative. We can still be a nice community, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if the flaming is pushing away members. But if we can't be nice, keep our thoughts to ourself, then I will start handing out the proper punishment. Members have been complaining about the fairness of our judgement, including myself, but then I look at what our community is and what makes it, and then I see that our decisions are unfair and work to the benefits of our members and not us. So either be nice or be banned.
Thank you all and have a wonderful day/evening.