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Originally posted by oberon
Opaque enforcement bothers me too. How can you trust people who enforce a rule if you can't see for yourself what happened? How do you know they broke a publically-announced rule (all of which are perfectly reasonable) or if they just pissed off somebody?
I'm personally still a bit paranoid about my participation on TFP for these reasons. I can tell you this is not true in other groups that I am part of (they are mostly orthagonal in purpose, don't worry).
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We are not opaque in how we enforce the rules. It's very difficult to not know the rules here. There are threads marked "
Notice:" in every forum. Most of the board rules can be found in a couple of the notice threads in "Tilted Newbies." If someone is banned, they have violated these rules. In most cases, they have violated these rules on multiple occasions. No one is banned for having an opinion that isn't liked or that pissed someone off. People are banned because they don't follow the rules that are stated in the notices. Most (if not all) of the rules are simple common sense. People are always warned before they are banned. Some people choose not to listen when they are told that they are doing things that they shouldn't. Those people get banned. The main thing that we ask for here is civility. In real life, you don't go into someone's house and start a brawl. All we ask is that you don't do the same here. No need to worry about anything else. Just read the rules and you'll be okay.
