Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5619531-20140909205123/@comment-5619531-20140909235706

Steam Phoenix wrote: And we are supposed to enforce this rule, how, exactly? By banning the offender?

If they want to be banned, then ban them. Just don't allow them to request being unbanned.

The idea of not allowing a user to request a ban is silly. That's their decision, not ours.

That's really all that's needed to be said. There are things I could go into, but this is really all that has to be said.

No one would be banned from the chat for requesting their own ban, and it wasn't clearly mentioned on this thread. And I find it shocking that you, of all people that I know on this community, puts it in terms that this thread is bad and stupid.

Like what Xelrog and I had said, it's not the mods job to ban users automatically when they do request a ban. Their job is to monitor the chat for rule-breakers. But it's not really an option to give an automatic no for a chat-ban that a user is requesting.

I do find it pretty unnecessary if a user needs a ban because they don't have self control to turn off the chat and do their school work. It's their decision to make that ban on their own, but it should be the last thing that an admin/mod should do because they don't have self control. But it's up to the mod's discretion on how they handle it, whether it is a kick or the ban time the user allows.

Just throwing this out. I don't really care if this gets a topic of its own or not on this thread, it's my peronal opinion. I don't think that they should request to be unbanned, but I think that they should be allowed to request a change on their ban--but only for extreme causes like a year or 6 months to a lower time period like a month or three.