The following post is coming from my belief that staff should be able to call one another out and step on one another's toes when they feel their behavior is inappropriate, because squashing one's concerns out of misplaced politeness does not aid the discourse or the community as a whole.
Yeah, I can't say I feel this is kosher. Above and beyond the fact that everybody just assumed that the SO5S shit was nyehcat's because "who else would give a shit about nyehcat" (overlooking that the point of complaints about SCP wiki staff is the perception of SCP staff incompetence, favoritism, and/or abuse of power, not treatment of nyehcat specifically as a user — anybody perceived as the "victim" of staff action can be jumped on as a martyr for those purposes), this guy was banned literally as "bait", and because it was perceived that "nobody would protest a ban." Those are shitty, shitty reasons to execute discipline. If it had worked and you guys were proven completely correct, it would still have been a shitty reason.
Look, we get in conversations all the time about how we should bring the hammer down more frequently or that we go too easy on idiots, to the detriment of the chat. If the conversation had been "nyehcat's finally crossed the line with the passive-aggressive bullshit, let's pull the trigger", I would have been absolutely fine with one or two ops executing a ban at two in the morning and reporting it afterward for review— ops should be able to act with their best judgment, being trusted to do so. But that wasn't the motivation, and this shouldn't be how we operate.
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