Ban-avoiding tends to be banworthy, even when the original ban was only a temporary one, but kickbanning someone and then going to sleep and forgetting about it is rather bizarre.
If the word is so evil, why didn't the people who were spamming it get in trouble - rather than a fire-and-forget permban being slapped on someone who said it once or twice? Could it perhaps be because they had been in the community for far longer? I realize that's an inflammatory proposition, but... Please try to consider it unemotionally (if it's not true, just forget it). Anyways, Skrylar has a tendency to... cause problems for himself unintentionally, I think. I hadn't seen anyone else get kickbanned for saying 'wololo', let alone permanently banned with the moderator doing the banning actually *leaving immediately after banning so that he/she couldn't be talked to about it*, so Skry probably had no expectation that it was dangerous to say it just once (It was being spammed days earlier by TheJoe and someone else, of course, and said by some people, whenever anyone joined the channel). He probably never expected that. A lot of people wouldn't have expected it. But immediately ban-avoiding to rejoin the channel and complain about the ban IS NOT A WISE IDEA. All across IRC-land, in every channel in every server that I'm in, except for one or two, ban-avoiding is grounds for instant banning, if not instant perm-banning. And on those others, it's different only because you have to warn before you kick or ban someone.
That might be a nice policy to adopt here, actually (warning before kicking or banning).
Post edited March 18, 2009 by Trafalgar