03-17-2015, 08:14 AM
Spirit of the law vs. Letter of the law argument here, really. TK's general tone of voice is passive-aggressive and denounces entire parties in an overgeneralization as an attempt to start a flame war, at which point he starts calling out the critics for supposedly being idiots and paints them as the wrong ones for attacking little ol' him.
He does it in a fashion that's designed so that he doesn't need to specifically target someone to start a flame war, and it SEEMS as though he's making actual arguments despite not actually caring much for the things he's saying, thus letting him avoid most of the harassment/flame claims through specific loopholes in standard moderating framework while still being able to bully everyone within hearing distance.
The beauty of this is that technically, websites do not have a strict definition of flaming/trolling/harassment, and it's ultimately up to the mods to determine what is or is not harassment, and this means that after a certain critical point that kind of nonsense can be deemed "deliberate trolling" and hit hard. Especially if the person has a reputation for that modus operandi. It's sort of why he got practically kicked off of pojo for toxic behavior and escaped here, and he really hasn't learned from his mistakes.
And do keep in mind that NAC technically has an anti-trolling clause in its rules that lets the staff decide who and who isn't trolling and harassing other members. I mean, we've used it before with more toxic members who were basically going "I didn't do anything wrong, I was just saying the truth" as an excuse to justify their nonsense. It's not like we don't have a precedent, either.
And we're not even playing hardball with him, at that. Yami and Mystik have been generally handling this much more casually and coolly than pretty much anyone else on the old guard or staff has ever been, and they're usually some of the few people in the old guard who are open and accepting enough to take in discussion without resorting to raging passive-aggressive nonsense of their own. Plus they generally tend to avoid some of the obsessive rhetoric we tend to end up throwing out there at times in regards to anime faithfulness or quality.
He does it in a fashion that's designed so that he doesn't need to specifically target someone to start a flame war, and it SEEMS as though he's making actual arguments despite not actually caring much for the things he's saying, thus letting him avoid most of the harassment/flame claims through specific loopholes in standard moderating framework while still being able to bully everyone within hearing distance.
The beauty of this is that technically, websites do not have a strict definition of flaming/trolling/harassment, and it's ultimately up to the mods to determine what is or is not harassment, and this means that after a certain critical point that kind of nonsense can be deemed "deliberate trolling" and hit hard. Especially if the person has a reputation for that modus operandi. It's sort of why he got practically kicked off of pojo for toxic behavior and escaped here, and he really hasn't learned from his mistakes.
And do keep in mind that NAC technically has an anti-trolling clause in its rules that lets the staff decide who and who isn't trolling and harassing other members. I mean, we've used it before with more toxic members who were basically going "I didn't do anything wrong, I was just saying the truth" as an excuse to justify their nonsense. It's not like we don't have a precedent, either.
And we're not even playing hardball with him, at that. Yami and Mystik have been generally handling this much more casually and coolly than pretty much anyone else on the old guard or staff has ever been, and they're usually some of the few people in the old guard who are open and accepting enough to take in discussion without resorting to raging passive-aggressive nonsense of their own. Plus they generally tend to avoid some of the obsessive rhetoric we tend to end up throwing out there at times in regards to anime faithfulness or quality.
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