My question to all the candidates running in NA is this: If someone who repeatedly breaks the rules time and time again gets unmuted time and time again yet by this time they should be banned, what is your game plan on enforcing this policy? Do you want to ensure that people are deterred and are punished for wrongdoings or are you a more forgiving person?
As I said in my earlier post, this is one of the issues I would really like to address with the community at large. Especially considering this position is designed to act as a representative of the overall NW playerbase, I feel it would be particularly unwise to take any sort of unilateral action on an issue as important as this (considering it permanently affects both the banned individuals and all their friends in the community). The community should at least be consulted before the representative approaches the mods with suggestions for changes.
I also feel its important to note that the rep is just a bridge between players and mods, we have no final say and may only plead our/the community's case to the mods.
As for my personal beliefs:
1) I believe some individuals have been treated with much more leniency than they deserve (and that mods have been somewhat inconsistent with who show leniency to and how much they show).
2) I do not support an overly simplified "3 mutes = ban" or anything like that simply because it does not take into account the severity of the offences. I'd be in favour of asking the mods for a clearly defined and publicized table of punishment (eg. 60 warning points for pyramids, 100 for the worst offences, etc.) - from there we can work something more flexible/considerate out (eg. 200 points including at least 3 mutes/warnings accumulated = ban)
3) I believe a maximum of 1 unban should ever be allowed to an individual, and that any unbanned member should be walking on thin ice. For instance, I do not agree with a recent mod decision where an unbanned individual was muted within one day of their return, subsequently unmuted, sanctioned
again a few days later, and was still not re-banned. (yet someone else returning from a ban was immediately re-banned for practically the same offence - and we come back to my earlier point on moderation consistency). If you demonstrate that you are only here to troll and start petty drama, after having been afforded several opportunities to stop, you have no place in this comunity.
