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kk, I have tried staying out of this thread. But, I feel that I must at least state this. To give ya'll kind of an inside view. Several months back there was a member on this forum that was getting close to going over the line in almost every post they wrote. 2 Mods felt that they did cross the line and that they should have more done to them. 2 Mods felt that simple warnings and infractions was enough. 1 Mod stayed nuetral. Even after this person PM'd 1 mod and cussed them out, that 1 Mod could NOT take action against the member without the consent of the other Mods. It was discussed in the Staff Forum and decided by ALL that still simple infraction was a just punishment. At the same time, several GG members were also upset about this one member and made several posts in the GG private forums about them. That still did NOT sway the decision of the Mods in anyway, otherwise they would have been banned. We have procedures that we follow. It starts with discussions, leads to warnings, leads up to infractions, and only sometimes as it actually led to a ban and with the exception of spam-bots it is always a temp-ban.
There has already been 1 GG member that while in GG, was temp-banned and another that was given an infraction. Just being in GG does not change anything and does not sway anything.
Also, recently a GG member voiced their displeasure in terms of a different member. Because that member had not gone far enough to even warrant a warning, the GG member was told to simply put that person on their "Ignore" list option. This was the SAME response that was given to a non-gg member several weeks ago when they came to us mods with thier displeasure of another member on the forums.

But, the simple fact is, some people are going to feel a certain way no matter how many examples we give, and nothing is going to change that. that is up to them and that is fine. we know this and accept this.

This forum is never going to be able to make everyone happy all the time. And that is just a fact of life. The Mods on this forum are not perfect, nor we do we portray ourselves as perfect. We have actually made some decisions and then after discussions, changed our decisions. Some warnings have been reversed, some infractions have been reversed. We are not perfect, just like no other member on this forum is perfect.

lol, I had more to say, but lost it and this is long enough already.