I was catching up on the Tubadiva/**catsix ** Pit thread, and read this post from **Zoe **;
This seems like an excellent idea, to me. Mods of course have difficulties with insults, since they have two hats to wear - their mod hat, and their poster hat. Wearing their mod hat, they ban/suspend, issue warnings, and involve themselves in board matters. With their poster hats on, they involve themselves in talking about random crap, arguing, and insulting like the rest of us - personal issues.
Issuing a threat of banning crosses those lines. Note I don’t mean saying “this is a warning for breaking the rules” - that’s fine, and is purely mod hat business. But “I don’t like you, and I’ll be extra vigilant for a chance to see you leave”* is a personal attack with the poster’s hat on that threatens the use of mod power.
It’s understood that we are not allowed to attack mods personally for mod hat work, but only their posts/acts as a poster. It seems only fair to me that since we are unable to attack mod actions on a personal level that mods should not be allowed to use mod actions/power as a personal threat.
Any chance of getting this rule added to the Big Secret Mod Book of Rules?
*I’m not saying this is what happened in the Tuba/catsix case. This is a completely seperate example.