Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5619531-20140909205123/@comment-1196539-20140909230429

Enforce a rule? What are you talking about, Phoenix? (I'ma call you Nick for short)

Basically what happened is, I revised the chat rules and got rid of the ban request section because I misunderstood what it was for. Fatal explained it to me, and now the topic of whether or not the section should be re-added has come up. There are no rules being proposed at all. Support means that the chat rules page just stays as is, and Oppose means we re-add that section into it.

I frankly find it silly that we need to devote a section on the rules page to people requesting their own bans, which itself sounds completely asinine. It's not the staff's job to deliver bans on request because people lack self control, and we don't really need a section on that page encouraging such requests.

THAT SAID, it's not like those bans are being outlawed. If an admin or chat mod gets a self-ban request via PM, they're free to fulfill it if they like. Really, it's just up to their discretion. We don't need a section on the rules page that makes it sound like they're obligated to fulfill these requests, though.

Also, it makes for a pretty depressing reflection of our userbase if people have so little self-control that they can't just close the chat window for a couple hours.