# I am appalled

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**Created:** [December 1, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-appalled/604694 "2011-12-01T13:24:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-appalled/604694/234 "2011-12-03T02:58:39Z")

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> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#):
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> When a person (poster, mod, or jaywalker)has acknowledged error and apologized, the mods do NOT continue to chastize, express outrage, yell at, scold, berate, or otherwise kick the dead horse in public.
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> When anyone makes a stupid mistake, and feels terrible about it, and apoligizes in public and in private, we accept that and move on.
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> Others, obviously, do not.

The issue I’m seeing is that this is not just a one off, out of character mistake. This is yet another reveal of a pattern of behaviour and attitude.

Something from another thread on another topic says it better than I could:

> [@Three steps to the ban](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-steps-to-the-ban/603833/10):
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> “The straw that breaks the camel’s back.”
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> Sometimes the final offense is something that perhaps we would counsel someone else for. But when it’s part of an overall pattern of bad behavior, enough is too much. There’s negative consequences to cumulative bad behavior and to give someone with a longstanding pattern of misbehavior the same consideration we would to a first-time offender is no way to run things.

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