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Originally Posted by Darth Marsden
(God, look at me letting all this power go to my head...)
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It never really gets better, you just get used to it.
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Originally Posted by Vainamoinen
Don't worry. After your first real non-bot ban... you immediately stop joking like this for quite some time. 
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Pfft, I didn't. That said, it really does suck when you have to ban a regular. I have no problem with banning assholes, though.
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Originally Posted by Darth Marsden
Generally speaking I'm fairly lenient when it comes to being a mod. Stick to the rules, avoid flat-out insulting people and don't start threads with no actual point to them and we're all good.
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That's pretty much how we all handle things. I'm glad to hear you've figured that out for yourself early on. It's pretty easy to be too heavy-handed when you first start out.
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Originally Posted by der_ketzer
Not a timeout. A real ban including deleting all posts and clearing the forum of all traces.
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Hey, we've only done that once that I know of, and it was so serious, all traces of the conversation about it were even removed from the mod board.