XxJennaxX wrote:Ho, all your banning shows is that your attempt at a ranking system has failed. The main purpose of it (to get the people to ban Casey instead of yourself) didn't work out like you thought it would, so yet again you have to do it yourself.
Why not jus be mature enough to admit your system failed.
I'm not sure whether I should even reply to this post, given that there's a 50% chance that she just let Casey use her account to make it, but as long as we're beating the "1 more post" thread into the dust:
Jenna, the rating system was devised to allow people to give their opinion on posts without flooding Brian's inbox, and arguably to reward people for making consistently appreciated contributions to IndyDDR.
It was not devised to handle really egregious behavior, or to "get the people to ban Casey." There's a reason that basically all internet discussion options, be they forums, Usenet groups or wikis, have moderators with the power to step in and stop serious abuses. There's a reason the moderator tradition has persisted over 20 years: because there will always be some people who care more about a community than others, and it is (usually) necessary to give those people stewardship powers to balance out the omnipresent people who, for whatever reason, actively try to destroy the community and irritate its members.
Brian has shown a remarkable amount of patience in dealing with both Casey and the people who repeatedly rise to his bait. As I said in the other thread (ironically before the banning): if I were Brian, I would have banned Casey
long before now - despite the fact that I have no personal quarrel with him, and enjoy having someone to trade comical insults with - because he has shown himself to be in the latter group. I regret the fact that he continually picks fights which escalate into flame wars which incinerate useful threads, but he does, and minimizing such things is Brian's (admittedly self-inflicted) job.
So remember, Jenna, there is no cabal.
And if you miss him so much, you always have the Casey-lib.
Standard disclaimers apply. My comments about the nature of the rating system are my own, and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Brian, MonMotha or anyone else who actually KNOWS what it's for. If anyone "gets" the cabal reference, I will be shocked and awed. But not as shocked and awed as I will be if anyone besides Jenna and maybe Pheadra, who we haven't heard from yet, is actually irate at Casey getting banned. How many lines of microtext do you think I can come up with? I can probably beat Green Tea's last attempt. I'm very verbose. I know! - you'd never think it, would you? But I really am. The only problem is that now I have no target for random insults and bashing, since Casey's gone and anyone else might take it seriously. MonMotha? How about a token feud for old times' sake? <attempts puppy-dog eyes>
