Thread:3cooldog92/@comment-5540817-20121218042557/@comment-3247345-20121221042658

No regrets. You gotta do what you gotta do. With the admins abusing their power to settle scores for their friends and only using the policies to justify unfair actions they chose to do beforehand it doesn't appear that me doing anything different would have changed the outcome. They wanted to ban me and they would have concocted something else had they not been able to use what they did for any reason. This place doesn't have rules if you define rules as  as a code of conduct that applies equally to everyone. Now, if you define rules as reasons to ban people that the admins pull out of their butts when it's convenient for them that's another story.

The reasoning goes something like this: Bans are supposed to serve as an incentive not to violate the policies. But if they happen whether the policies are violated or not then it's no longer and incentive. So people largely do what they would do anyway. A reasonable person might ask "Why obey the rules if they ban me whether I do or not?". The answer might be found in the fact that it's the right thing to do. But if that were the case rules and admins wouldn't be needed to begin with. So you can basically assume that people are naturally inclined not to follow the rules. In the absence of a countermanding incentive to follow the rules they will be broken. It's that simple. Now of course this ban wasn't to enforce the rules. It was the admins settling a personal score for their friend. The fact that they're creating these perverse incentives means little to them because they got their revenge. It's short sided but the small minded tend to think like that.