Board Thread:Moderation Desk/@comment-644222-20150815034345/@comment-70.72.175.39-20150815162804

What is to stop people from abusing this new policy? You banned Stromheart for a conversation that was private and went public courtesy of BoL; if you're going to ban Stromheart, then let us be fair in enacting this policy by banning the ENTIRE crew who was involved in raising this ruckus. Otherwise this stinks of favouritism and bias. If you do not ban the others involved in this, then that gives them free rein to continue with taking private things and making it public, at the cost of being banned to the person WHO DID NOT CONSENT to having their conversation posted, while the instigators (those who posted the stuff) get away scotch-free for having caused a MASSIVE amount of drama. BoL will continue to use these tactics, as they always have, and the result will be a ton of people banned unnecessarily because they chose to go HUNTING DOWN (yes, deliberately) posts from tumblr or private convos with racial slurs or hatred, and making it public. At no cost to themselves, but at a great cost to an already fractured community.

And it is not just BoL who can (and will) abuse this system to oust people they do not like. It is the entire community who can (and will) do so. This policy is apt for great abuse unless both parties are equally punished by being banned.