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Originally Posted by Abbaddabba
So the natural response would be to warn or temp-ban the people who were inappropriately mean or offensive.
Why didnt you do that?
What makes you think that we didn't
?
I understand what you are saying about dealing with individuals instead of the whole community and I don't necessarily disagree with you.
But you need to appreciate that warning people has not been working. Several regular posters have been warned so many times that they are out of warnings. Warnings for things that they should know are totally unacceptable without being told. Dealing with individuals as you suggest would have meant permanently banning some regular contributors.
We really don't want it to come to that and we chose to try something different instead. I realize that some innocent people were upset and inconvenienced. I'm truly sorry for that.
I can promise you that we have no intentions of doing anything like this again. If there are more problems with individuals we will do the necessary. It is just important to know that we tried another way before we resorted to that.