I have tried to stay out of the Dramal situation as much as possible, even though I especially don't care for for the guy and have the option (being the ignore and /blacklist functions do exist). And when I did bring up an honest question about the situation it just turned into "why are you attacking us". The issue isn't related to any single person in my eyes, its an overall content problem that will take some changes to repair. And it will definitely resurface (looking at history again), the only way to keep it to a minimum impact is to change how it is dealt with. So, since I am new here in B@W and this is pretty limited in it's audience, I will make the comments I have always thought and hopefully no one gets offended.
/begin rant
Moderation of any community, no matter how large or small requires a couple of things that are against human nature. Of these requirements, the ability to separate relationships and/or the natural inclination for people to want their decisions to be considered "fair" in community's eye. To be completely un-biased is just not as possible as we would like it to be.
The infraction system in place at QCDN is basically an attempt to give every person multiple opportunities to modify their behavior to make this community as positive as possible while adhering to the ruleset. The only issue I see is the infraction system has the appearance of being at the discretion of the person applying, inviting some level of what could be perceived as favoritism.
Let's not kid ourselves here, Miros and team have done a fantastic job of making the situation as palatable as possible in most situations. They get relatively no pats on the back, only bitching whenever something doesn't go how someone thinks is the "right way" and on top of that they have to deal with the never-ending weighing of the impacts of choices with removing / punishing someone versus the betterment of the traffic.
What I propose is what I see at the other communities successful within this subject matter. (Looking at Allah, KillingIfrit, BlueGartr, and Windower for examples here) All other forums have some form of drama that crops up from time to time (asshat calling, etc). Their moderation basically gives a warning, then removes the person. There will always be another drama queen to start up the bullshit, even looking through QCDN history you can see this. However, QCDN provides many many options before completing this task with frequent posters. This just in turn provides the opportunity for the positive people to move on, as you see in this thread and a couple of others. Not to mention the people that move on w/o this notice. Also, the target of "adding in the larger linkshells" just continues to not move forward as their leaders just come to recruit and still see the drama ongoing.
1) Warn with infraction system, level of infraction determining length or level of punishment.
2) "Ban it and forget it"
We all know these guys are doing the best they can to make everyone happy, I don't think that's causing people to look at moving on. It's the fact that by allowing the people in question to remain members will always perpetuate the drama just by others talking about it. As long as the flameboard remains, there will be drama. However, the target of this community is entertainment therefore it MUST stay, but it MUST stay within that forum. When someone does any douchebaggery outside that environment (in any form in violation of the rules), they must be warned and removed.
I for one would like to bring more content to this forum, and want to encourage our LS members to participate fully. But this simply isn't viable option as long as the level of drama is out there. I continually put to much on my plate to get done (agreed contradiction to what I just said), and I can also see that happening with the content that could be provided here too.
/end rant
(I know my posts are always like that lol, but I don't speak out a lot either)
