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

Earlier last night Xelrog and I were talking about this issue back and forth on our talk pages. As I was going to go on the chat rules to see that part of the rules so that I can have a faster route to discuss stuff with a bureaucrat for more benefits on the site and not have to leave a message on a talk page that can be unanswered for hours--since Callie/Phoenix is on most of the times on the chat--I noticed that the section wasn't there anymore.

After asking, then correcting Xelrog about this removal of the section in the chat rules and talking about it, I feel that it should be removed from the chat rules completely.

Reasons for it being (and these reasons can be found on my talk page by Xelrog) is that it's not really the chat mod(s)/modding admin(s) job to give out a chat ban on a account because a user lacks self-control to not sign off from the chat and take a break from it if he/she is stressed from it, caught up on school work, or anything that involves time. Their job is to mod the chat if anyone breaks a chat rule, not give out a ban to some user who lacks this control. And another reason for it is that it encourages bad habits in said user if that's a response to a lack of self control.

I was because I did ban myself for a year because of some chat users in the past were assaulting that I didn't really want to encounter them again for a year, and that I thought that talk pages was the faster route for issues (when messages can be ignored, or the reply is halted because the user has a life). But I do agree with what Xelrog had said on my talk page.

 