Good point Kylez and I would be inclined to agree. I thought infractions were a good idea at the time and that they would lead to more transparency, but they really haven't done any such thing.
While I've disagreed with a few of my infractions and not others, the one that bugged me most was a profile infraction I receieved for abusing Bun via VM (I had accused him of being a multi about a week earlier). This is all fine and dandy but I'd received an infraction one day earlier, also a profile infraction and also for abusing Bun. I found this ******** on the basis that one of the benefits of infractions from a member's POV is supposed to be that we can adjust our 'behaviour' to prevent us getting fuirther ones. So to receive two in two days for the same offence, when the earlier infraction was the later offence annoyed me, no end. After getting the first one I made a decision not to interact with Bun and then a few hours later find myself on the brink of a ban anyway, with the second infraction lasting until 2012. And my point isn't to discuss that but just to give an example of the mods doing whatever the **** they want with infractions. The poor handling of the Furball situation demonstrates this as well - basically it was we felt he needed to be banned so gave him a bunch of infraction points to get it done - forget about whether he should be banned or not, that's just rendering the infraction system pointless.
EWS and Flem make some decent arguments in their posts, that being said I don't doubt the intentions of most of the mods anyway, it's the execution. Hearing that there is no mod policy to protect Tendulkar is not earth shattering news but the point I've made in this thread, and my own one before fos shut it down, is that they often judge a post's intentions through the reaction it receives. Trolling is obviously a subjective matter but I'll restate again that I was warned for calling the India bowlers clowns, and this was because it was more likely to get a negative reaction than if the same was stated in reverse. Truth is the truth hurts, you see. The India bowlers ARE clowns, of the highest order, and to me the fact that I was warned because some people are likely to act like dicks over their team being criticised is suggestive of the way things work; I called many players from Australia clowns over the winter to absolutely zero censure.
I do find it concerning that Flem says 'dire posting' in his post because I don't think the mods should be the safeguards of what opinions people hold.
And to answer Jono, I have to admit I am genuinely surprised people were so against Furball's posting as aside from calling Cevno a ****ing moron I honestly didn't see much wrong in his general posting, but I'm clearly in a minority there. But you're bang on the money to suggest I believe others should have been taken care of in the same way as I can think of a few posters who drag the forum atmosphere in the same way all the time.
Bah, wrote too much
If it wasn't liable to get me infracted I'd begin to wonder if Cribb and Corrin were one and the same
