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As soon as one of the bans was made there were already mods saying it wasn't deserved, and it quite obviously wasn't. The other two bans are actually quite borderline, but because the situation they were reversed. There was no riot that I saw, but those threads in General Discussion were already made quite a while before the bans were handed out which were from posts made in those threads. There was no banning rampage, it was 3 people banned by two different staff members. On the topic of it taking two days to reverse, I agree that one of the bans should have been reversed right away, but all of the administrators and moderators are just volunteers. We're all on different timezones and some have full time jobs, school and university commitments. All bans go through the appeal system to reverse them, this is something would could look at speeding up when a ban is obviously wrong though. EDIT: and I got ninjad by tripsis and Y_Guy :(

There are always bans which are publicly challenged, especially when people have large friend groups, which, being friends are generally biased. I don't believe we should publish bans, it's not something we've ever done and I don't know of any other Fansite that has done it successfully. Also, generally when people are banned it's for making a rule breaking post, if we posted that rule breaking post to the community, it kinda takes away the point of removing it in the first place. A board specifically challenging bans kinda already exists in the account appeal system, where every Super Mod and Admin can look at the appeal, so it's not a small group of people making the decision. Ofcourse the banned are going to say they didn't deserve to be banned. Yes, three were impulse and they have been reversed with complete apologies made. I'd agree the system was dysfunctional if they weren't reversed. False bans very rarely happen and there was a bit of a panic when this started, and a mistake was made. I've never ever seen a ban made on a personal grudge, I know that most of the admins wouldn't stand for it and the person who did the banning would be severely reprimanded. I don't think we can safely say that the system is seriously dysfunctional, it's been in practice since the beginning of Rune Tips and has worked very well for such a large forum. The forum staff has learnt from this experience, (remember most of us haven't been staff for a very long time, a lot of the older staff left in a clump) and none of these mistakes will happen again. Community votes on bannings could be feasible in a smaller group of people like a RuneScape clan, and some of the clans I'm in have done that and it's worked very well. Because of the size of Tip.It Forums, it'd be unreasonable to implement something like it. I hope most of that makes sense, it's late now! EDIT: and I agree with the above two posters!

It's alright, he's Australian!

Lold

Get out.

Sorry, Who. I'll do better next time :(

no u

Bye@

No more Australia bashing or you all get banned ffs

Excellent.

Good idea. I want to try that now

I don't even. Also, I say this is mod bashing. Go ban yourself

Psycho, do you wish to submit a formal complain for Who making death threats?

Telling people their trolling is trolling.

What is this "trolling"? amidoingitright icwatudidthar

Newb as in Carl?

I'm confused. Who's ? :(

But then I have nothing to ban you for and I'll get fired, and I won't have any powers to abuse. Where's the fun in that?

Since you admitted to trolling can I ban you plz?

you're 3 minutes

I had my volume on full, and spent about 10 minutes trying to work out where the sound was coming from. Top show, Goon!

nowai

why is this topic moving so slow..usually there's like 20 new pages to read each time I check here

What did I just watch

Welcome to Tip.It Forums, hope to see you around more often! Hey, all posts advertising something should be made in this designated thread. I also removed your other topic in RuneScape Media, as it was a copy of this one :wink: