I think it would have been more productive to just ban them and then make an announcement about why their behavior was intolerable.
Posting about it in a way that technically violates the rules and then post hoc announcing a new exception to the rules is just gonna result in a bunch of litigation about the specifics of site policy, kinda like what's happening in this thread now.
I think there's an issue in doing that on a website - kobold, regardless of their reasons for reporting, isn't necessarily going to see and reply to this for some time, so it's just getting seen by everyone else to be speculated over. I feel like this should be a DM because in terms of modding you're the only one that really needs to hear his reasons in order to decide if he gets banned or not, and if his excuse is as bad as the report you can post the whole thing to the dredge tank for dunking.
Couldn't agree more, especially in this case, because of the same reason you mentioned in another comment: it took a long time to come around, and that coming around didn't happen by being coddled.
I believe it is more productive to have these things aired publicly so we can get this whole mess sorted as quickly as possible.
I think it would have been more productive to just ban them and then make an announcement about why their behavior was intolerable.
Posting about it in a way that technically violates the rules and then post hoc announcing a new exception to the rules is just gonna result in a bunch of litigation about the specifics of site policy, kinda like what's happening in this thread now.
I think there's an issue in doing that on a website - kobold, regardless of their reasons for reporting, isn't necessarily going to see and reply to this for some time, so it's just getting seen by everyone else to be speculated over. I feel like this should be a DM because in terms of modding you're the only one that really needs to hear his reasons in order to decide if he gets banned or not, and if his excuse is as bad as the report you can post the whole thing to the dredge tank for dunking.
Couldn't agree more, especially in this case, because of the same reason you mentioned in another comment: it took a long time to come around, and that coming around didn't happen by being coddled.