Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33668185-20181229231243/@comment-27345308-20181229234433

To be fair, what you mentioned in the original post is a one-off situation. Comparing the whole chat ban log or even just Veralann's chat ban log to your ban log I can't really spot many differences. Yes, it shows laziness but you can't know what was behind the scenes. Was Vera resolving a user's report about chat misbehavior while on phone and barely able to access chat, let alone ban users? Considering this is his third chat ban since September I'm sure he hasn't been able to deal with chat much in past and can only do so rarely. I dunno, it isn't too surprising of an action for a rather inactive administrator.

As for the second user, they were banned for a less specific reason that what they were reported for. Mod methods are not documented anywhere publicly so there's no warning required that we know of, and from what I remember cases of swear-and-run behavior get immediate bans. According to the report, the user was also warned for their behavior in past.

Was there a certain consistency in how bans were handed out back when you were an administrator? Were you required to specify the correct ban reasons? Did you have to do a certain amount of warnings before a ban? Did the entirety of the moderator team hand bans out consistently and follow the same ban policy? It's obviously not the case today, but I don't know if there's anything that requires them to do so.