Thread:Montonius/@comment-3055683-20121112234735/@comment-2045915-20121113224045

Shas'o, I disagree with each of your points. He was being aggressive, which is obvious from the tenor of his initial statements and the ridiculous language used without fist asking why we had chosen to use that picture. No, I did not overreact; I asked him to moderate his behaviour. If I had overreacted, I would simply have banned him then and there. I did not. He then responded with a massive overreaction of his own that he himself recognised should result in a ban based on his own behaviour. This is a constant problem on the Internet with incivility and individuals with no understanding of what we are doing and why we do it showing up to make demands over what they see as an error or a necessary change that just HAS TO BE MADE this minute and if we don't we're just WRONG, mortally wrong. Frankly, I'm fed up with the prevailing attitude that this is OK and nobody should ever be sanctioned for their own poor behaviour. I would ban him permanently for his latest actions and I would then proceed to ban him every chance I got when I recognised who he was under a new name with his VPN if he was actually stupid enough to identify himself again. As for repercussions, I could care less. I will clamp down on these individuals who lack any shred of self-control every chance I get and I will do so without remorse. He violated the wiki policy knowingly and on purpose to make his own point to make himself feel better. His behaviour is both typically overwrought and disgusting, and created a problem where there was none.

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I raised Algrim as Associate Administrator precisely to deal with this situation so that judgments on these issues would not lie solely in the purview of a single person. He has already adjudicated the situation as he saw fit and within the guidelines of the wiki as they are stated. I would have recommended a ban lasting for more than 30 days as he violated the anti-harassment policy flagrantly and knowingly and my patience for that childish behaviour is now non-existent, but it is Algrim's right to choose whatever sanction he believes is appropriate. I support his action and his chosen punishment fully in this matter, and have nothing more to say about it.