I’d normally be inclined to do nothing, but sending the mods abusive pms is just a bit extra. Like I’ve never heard of an online community where you can berate the staff and not expect to get booted. At least they ought to cool down and apologize for that.
If a poster wants to come back I have no problem with them creating a new account and making a post explaining why. It’s why the Sabo stuff was hilarious and utterly bad faith.
But, you can’t behave badly and expect good results
Vic, I can’t emphasize enough that I don’t know who this is or what was PM’d. Could be sabo, could be jmakin, could be a drunk David Skalansky for all I know. I’m just reading what otatop is posting here.
The PMs are a separate issue to me - if they are enough to ban him, then ban him again. If not then he should be allowed back. The person receiving them can block the PMs. Only reason I would ban new account for PMs is if it seems new account we’re created just to send the abusive PMs (ie user keeps creating new accounts when the person being receiving them blocks one account).
I don’t remember this at all tbh. Like, go back to the start of this: I initially thought otatop was the one getting the abusive PMs before he corrected me.
FFS, I agreed from the start of this that abusive PMs aren’t okay, I don’t know what Vic is even getting huffy about here.
Voted permaban, but only because of the second part. People should be allowed to come back under a new account after a self-requested permaban because who gives a shit?