So the rest of the staff did a great job handling the prior nonsense in the thread. Reading through, I wanted to address the above quote for a couple reasons, mainly because words have meanings and some things were said here that deserve specific reply.Ok ladies and gents. We are all members of the profession of of arms. We should be able to disagree without coming to verbal blows. We are brother and sisters and should be able to have civil discussion.
I will ask @ShadowSpear to allow all offending parties back into to the thread. If after a second chance they continue to behave like temperamental children allow @AWP to drop the ban hammer.
This issue needs attention and stifling it does no benifit to any of us.
I like the self policing, that's the goal. When an organization/culture/whatever finds a way to police their own without involvement from the authority, that's a good thing.
You can ask staff members to reconsider their punitive decisions, but you might not wanna do that when it's the boss that does it, 1. 2, you wouldn't "allow" the Amoral War Profiteer to do anything. And 3, we don't "stifle" any issues here in any way.
You all? The members? You "stifle" conversations when you force the staff to engage because you can't follow guidance and we have to lock things down.
Moving on...