Quote from: achow101 on October 20, 2016, 03:39:00 PM

Quote from: deisik on October 20, 2016, 02:13:29 PM

Haven't seen your post before submitting mine, but as you can see, the road is open to everyone, and people do change the ways they behave (and some even become global moderators at that)

That doesn't mean that they weren't banned at some point. As I said earlier, most bans are temp bans which serve as warnings for that user to increase their post quality or risk longer bans and eventually permanent bans.

As far as I can tell, both hilariousandco and Lauda actually received temp bans during their earlier days before being promoted to staff. So yes, the road is open to everyone, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't ban people at all.

As pointed out earlier, I'm not against banning individual users (permanently or temporary). In fact, there are a few cases where the lifetime ban is a must. Usually, I refrain from reporting on anyone unless their posts affect myself personally, for example, if they start copying my own posts. Such acts entail instant permanent ban, and that I can hardly question. On the other hand, would it be proper to ban users who are posting along these lines:

Quote from: jhenfelipe on October 13, 2016, 06:13:03 AM

I will not mention any because I believe that if I play any gambling games, I will win and lose. The scenario is most likely happening on luck based game like dice. It doesn't mean that if I won several times, I am already good at dice, right? Same case on others, I think it's not only me. This is just my point of view though. Of course, on games like sports betting, poker or the like, skills are also used. However, we can't deny the fact that luck will always be part of every game

I have already quoted this post before but no one criticizing my stance here wanted to reveal their attitude over this