Thread:Mrs.NiallHoran13/@comment-25209704-20130618231001/@comment-5384369-20130620015819

Mrs.NiallHoran13 wrote: Actually sophia, i had permission to ban. And dont disrespect me- i can increase your ban

Nutter Butter wrote: We were told by the admins to ban you. And you have misbehaved on several occasions besides this one, so it's accurate. If you continue complaining like this, we could ban you for longer. So calm down and just wait. A week really isn't that long

I know I'm being a nosy person here, but I just found out about this today, like, really. Just figured this out a few minutes ago. And, me being me, I had to give my input.

Marley and Nutter, looking at your responses to Sophia's message, I did a huge face palm. I was even a little sick to my stomach looking at the messages, and I was just thinking "No. Stop. Just... no."

In my opinion, what you wrote had to be the worst possible thing to say. The first impression is that you're just boasting the amount of power you now have. Which, in my own opinion is just... a little corrupt.

But then I read the part about increasing her ban. And that, right there, is where I am absolutely flabbergasted (and not in the good way). I see this as you abusing your chat mod rights on a very dangerous level.

Although Sophia may have been rude, and maybe she really deserved the week ban, but for me, you DO NOT THREATEN USERS. Just because you don't particularly like the tone of a person, or maybe that person isn't your "best friend" or whatever reason, it (in my opinion) does not give you the right to threaten them.

Also, does it really make sense to contain all of the past history of the person and just lay it all on them, all at once? For example, if I saw a user who wasn't particularly the best person on the wiki and I wasn't yet an admin. I say the occasional "stop" or "warning", but nothing has changed that much. Then I get my admin rights, I don't go and block that user for 3 months, counting up all of the bad things they did. I give them a ban based on if they have ever been formally warned (like, by an admin) or their block log or any other contributing factor I may have missed.

For me, this does not show that you can be respectable chat mods without abusing your power.

I know I'm going against Matt in this problem, but for me, this is not how you handle a chat problem, by threatening a user and holding things over their heads.