See, what bothers me is the exhorbitantly vague written reason for the ban.
I'd assume that every person ever banned this forum was banned due to "disregard for rules and guidelines."
Way I see it, if a G-Mod/Admin has a bone to pick with a member, they can merely ban for personal reasons and claim it to be a "disregard for rules and guidelines." I see no such disregard in any of Mr. Melee's posts. While they might not have been the most eloquent posts, they don't seem to break any rules. At all.
So I take it banning for no reason and claiming it to be a "disregard for rules and guidelines" is kosher, now? Show me any specfic instance of a post by Mr. Melee that violates a rule on the forums and I will retract this comment. I certainly don't see it.
As for you, TEM, I think your post may spark hubbub instead of discouraging it. What you basically do is insult the regular members' intelligence by rebuking them for questioning the mods' reasoning for something. I can't exactly fault you for not liking someone; I certainly feel that way about certain people, as well. But I don't think you can say that the mods' judgement is, by default, obviously better than anyone else's, Having been an admin of a large forum several years ago, I can look back and say that my judgement hasn't always been spot-on.
In conclusion, I'm slightly unnerved. For several reasons.
EDIT: Whoops. My bad.
Do not question or complain about moderators' actions.
Found this on the rules and guidelines thread. I can't say I agree with this, but that'd be questioning the higher-ups' judgement. Can't be doing that, a-nope.
(If this post seems frustrated, that's because it is. It is also somewhat tired. It's late.)
EDIT THE SECOND: From what I read on another thread, the reason for the ban was, most likely, asking for a custom title (which, to me, seems a bit of a trifling reason for a ban, a sort of "I don't like you so I'll overblow a minor transgression" -- which I hope [and assume] isn't the case.) or, more likely [I hope], posting private type messages on a public thread with little to do on that thread. Which, again, seems a bit trifling, but is a lot more severe than merely asking for a custom title.
