I once got a 7 day ban for contempt of maud for
pointing out that rule to a maude when the poster whom said maud was running interference for in the same thread
kept posting everything in big, bold red fonts.
Said maud went back and deleted a lot of our exchange after I got tossed in the hole afterward but still gave me violations for those posts which were not in any way a violation of any rule so that the bot would kick in and do an automatic ban, I
think. Unless said maud just did an outright arbitrary ban. Either way, it was really slimy stuff the way that all went down. But whatever. Sometimes it's best to just go ahead and take one for the team if it encourages others to speak up when blatant malfeasance is observed. Though the maud action was more likely taken for the purpose of
discouraging others from speaking up regarding those kinds of unscrupulous, arbitrary maud shenanigans when they're observed live. I just remembered all of that when I saw your post regarding the rule here.
I never did appeal it. There was no value in it. But I shouldn't have got a ban for it. And certainly not a 7 day ban when I'd never even had any problems at all previously. That ban was 100% for spite and nothing else. And it should not be on my record.
But coruption is corruption is corruption. What can you do? Right? Without at least one strict constructionist type on the maud staff, it's just always gonna be that way with the problem of arbitrary interpretation and therefore arbitrary action/inaction regarding how one might rather wish to personally
interpret the rules to align with and to serve as the illusion of justification for one's personal
intent in performing a maud action versus performing legitimate maud actions based on a solid interpretation as it relates to the
actual rules as they are written and provided to the usership. And that's why that line that the maud invoked about ''Why don’t you report it, and then the 'team' can decide what if anything to do'' was so laughable. Without a strict constructionist type of maud on the ''team'' the ''team'' is almost always going to just support the maud's action, regardles of how shady it was self-justified and performed. The subject of a given mauds contempt will never get a fair shake as to whether an actual rule was legitimately broken that would justify a seven day ban on a loaded first offense. So any appeal would be akin to Donald Trump getting a fair jury trial in New York. It's laughable. lol.
The fact is that I was right, though. But I already knew that. I think it just peed off the maud because I demonstrated the audacity to point out that said maude was ignoring the rule violation while participating in the thread, and in a manner consistent with forwarding the illusion of empowerment to said poster as a courtesy by letting the politically friendly poster post in big, bold red fonts.
Thanks for clarifying the rule though. Better late than never at all.
Crap of it all was that I had a darned good record before that, too. Never even a warning or anything before that, that I can recall. And haven't had any problems since either.
Sincerely,
Dave