Do you find it appalling that people are subject to tempbans without an RFC? I don’t, because it’s an ordinary mod power. Same thing with permanent bans. If you want to make it a rule that there has to be a process for permanent bans, you’re welcome to go for it. We have a process for that.
RFC is a process for changing rules. It is not established that it has to be used for permanent bans.
Sabo’s perma was converted to temp ban by a mod and the whole reason he was then re perma’d is because supposedly the community decided as such, which it didn’t.
On what grounds was Sabo reperma’d since he hardly posted anything upon returning and certainly nothing banworthy.
Why does this thread even exist? It doesn’t matter what the results are anyway, as we’ve already seen, and as you have already confirmed now multiple times.
Again, mod actions have on several occasions been subject to community referendum, and the community vote has either upheld or overturned the mod action.
I mean, you’re the one telling us all to think that a thread called Sabo Permaban Confirmation was obviously and facially not, in fact, a Sabo permaban confirmation.
The craziest part of this to me is that Sabo is a very obviously elite poster regardless of your opinion of the tone of his posts. Whole thing is baffling
I don’t think anything would actually help or make a positive difference at this point. It’s just an unfortunate disease that just gets collectively worse for everyone who continues to participate at an equal or greater level.
I don’t really understand this whole RFC discussion. Maybe because I refuse to understand what RFC even is.
It’s been a ~year. Sabo, afaik, did not create any gimmicks or evade his ban/silence in any way. Is it that far fetched to re-examine this perma within the community? afaik Sabo wants to post here again. He did not hack or doxx anyone. He was not racist or celebrated anyone’s death. He was, and probably still is, a very annoying poster to some (including myself - i voted yes on his perma). I’m genuinely sure that someone like El-Paso has concrete reasons that he can share if he likes to why sabo should remained silenced.
Is there any procedure we can think of to re-open a perma ban for discussion again?
Because, as I’ve previously stated, community votes to uphold or overturn mod actions have been a thing as long as UP has been a thing. The fact that it wasn’t an RFC is irrelevant. It was a community vote.
This was my exact thinking when creating this thread, inspired by jmakin only having “a few gimmick accounts nuked” in the other RFC OP. I don’t remember seeing many Sabo posts so I have no skin in his ban and may be off on the details so I legitimately wanted comments on his ban.
No, not literally whenever, but when there aren’t explicit rules, of course. You keep trumpeting how a rule making and changing process wasn’t followed when the action in question wasn’t making or changing a rule, or doing something contrary to rules. It was a mod action. We don’t have RFCs every time a mod acts, because mods are empowered to act and always have been.