I strongly oppose any direct action taken with regards to Aelanna's "staff or not" status, unless we are prepared to instantly demote at minimum Echo (chat & site), Tox (chat), Burns (site), Waxx (site & chat), and Bright (site & chat), who have done all of these things, sometimes extensively (Bright/Waxx less recently).
And that's just the members we still have around.
If we don't do this, then Aelanna is not going to be punished with permanent removal from staff. If you don't support this, then please explain to me exactly why you think Aelanna should be treated differently from the people I just listed, some of whom said the EXACT SAME KIND OF SHIT Aelanna said to newbies within the past few weeks, and who have driven off many, many people in the past.
Hell, several of them tried to drive off me, and almost succeeded (Troy and ironically Yoric kept me around). I remember, and I still support them as staff. I know you weren't around then, Woggle, but as I've told you before, that ain't no excuse when you want to get draconian in the service of Teh Rules. One cannot afford to be harsh AND myopic.
[edit: if myopia this is — I shouldn't psychoanalyze individual people. After talking with Woggle, I see this could've been unfair.]
Additionally, Aelanna has the privilege of defending herself because she has been judged valuable enough to the site to have a voice on O5, whether or not she is staff. This, at the moment, has not changed. Therefore, she is welcome to weigh in as much as she likes.
If we permanently remove her from staff, that is another discussion that is not currently being touched on in this thread.
EDIT: re: Vezaz — Apologies, I forgot to mention that I was also posting a massive wall of text for your perusal on the next page.
