Agree on this. He is a valuable asset of the forum and we didn't want an another precious member leave the forum just like Lauda, TMAN and many more just because of making the forum clean from scammers and shitty user.
I'm not sure either Lauda or TMAN left the forum because of that reason; TMAN just kind of disappeared, and Lauda, well....who knows? But I agree that nutildah is an asset to the forum, and I'd hate to lose him. However, this was just a ban for a week, and given that nutildah kept ignoring the mods about his thread being in the wrong section (regardless of anyone's argument about whether that interpretation is correct), it's fair. Bruno was temp banned a while back for consecuposting if I'm not mistaken, and he was certainly a valuable member of the community. That tells me that very few members (I hate to say
nobody) are above the rules.
Do you think we really do not privilege users and we really should not.
A user who has years of contribution in the community who built up the community with his blood and sweat, he deserves privilege over a spammer in the forum who has no other intention but to harm us.
I think nutildah did get a bit of special consideration here, as he was warned multiple times before he got temp-banned. Other members who don't have a reputation, or who are shitposters, or who have negative trust might have been banned much sooner. I can't say that's 100% true of course, but I don't think the mods were quick with the ban hammer as far as nutildah goes.
Somehow the tiniest things on Bitcointalk can be blown up to the point where it leads to bans. I get it from the Mods' perspective, and I get it from nutildah's perspective. But none of this should have been made so big, it's just not worth it.
Yep, and I also understand it from both sides, which makes it hard for me to place blame in this situation. Fortunately all nutildah got was a 7-day ban, and hopefully that'll give him some time to cool off--and I also hope he doesn't return with a grudge.