Okay people, we've had a bit of drama in the past 48 hours stemming from a fight between RoseSkye and WcW.
After looking over both sides, I actually have found both sides to be at fault, but the current punishments will stand, and a further one may be carried out upon one of the offenders in order to make this fair.
First I'd like to bring to your attention the moderator policy regarding duplicate accounts. While dupes aren't explicitly discouraged, using them to bypass a ban is a heavy offense that will have your ban kicked to a much harsher punishment, depending on which moderator catches this act and their own personal order of operations, and some may just give you a permanent ban pending discussion with the other mods.
Mine for example:
24 hour no-post ban
24 hour full ban
48 hour full ban
7 day full ban
30 or 60 day full ban (depending on severity of rules broken)
Full Ban pending discussion with moderation and admin team
That's my personal scale, and I actually find it to be quite merciful really, as I usually just repeat the 24 hour no-post ban for people.
Next I'd like to note that I myself am not responsible for the current bans. The last ban I enacted was quite a while ago, as I felt myself too stressed to be entrusted with such a duty (believe me, a LOT of Perma-bans would have happened).
Now, here's where I'm going with this. I am personally not a big fan of drama on the internet, in fact it is something that has SEVERELY fucked me up in the past and now is something I prefer to avoid.
If you're going to start a debate in this forum, please remember to make your openning statement as descriptive as you feel fit, do NOT use vague openers that can cause problems, I will PERSONALLY lock these topics or delete them if I see this kind of bullshit happening again.
Next up, for the love of god, do NOT take shit up the ass about what someone says here. Rule of thumb, if a post sounds defamatory, please report it to a moderator IMMEDIATELY so it can be taken care of, do NOT take the law into your own hands OR explode upon another member or group of members. If you have a personal problem with a member, take it up with them, but do NOT get the community involved in personal disputes.
Some of these things are common sense people, there's a reason why we have 5 active moderators, three of them being Global Moderator who can easily remedy your problems, and most of us have made our contact information public to the forums (I actually prefer that if there is something going on to contact me via AIM IMMEDIATELY, even if I'm not online, I respond almost immediately once I do log in).
I welcome other moderators to add their own voices to this topic and for the community to give their own responses, but please take this as it is meant, this is a SERIOUS warning to those who wish to engage in a fight that involves the community: YOU WILL BE PUNISHED!