... the thread is in the Board archives, here. If you desperately want to talk about it, can I ask that you do so in emails? Mine is linked above if for some reason you want to discuss it with me.

This is why I hesitated a full day before answering Ekyl's question. I didn't want to mention it at all, but saying nothing would have been too rude.

hS

As Nesh has already mentioned (while I was in the process of writing this post), your question is in poor taste. Surely it would be preferable to not break the rules, not violate the PPC Constitution, and not be a dick to other people on the Board. Then everyone might ideally get along. Sunshine and rainbows all around. Don't try to use someone else's bad behavior as a measuring stick to try and say 'But I'm actually pretty good!'

Jacer offended damn near everybody in the community. You'd have to be deliberately, unrepentantly trying to piss us off to warrant comparison with that.

Incidentally, I find this question of how far you can go breaking the rules to be in poor taste. Even if you only break one rule and only hurt one person—say you threatened someone—that's still bad and the consequences (which would be determined by the community at large based on all facts available at the time) would still apply. Trying to wheedle out of it on the basis that someone else behaved worse than you at some point is a) not how rules work and b) disrespectful. Doing so would undoubtedly make your situation worse, not better.

Please strive to follow all the rules all the time, thanks. {= /

~Neshomeh

It seems that the logic of banning someone would stem from emotion. "If we let this troll stay, we're going to lose some people we actually like and the number may keep going."

I'm sure that defending yourself with that technique would just earn you more annoyance points.