I just want to clarify some things, and, TBH, takezo, I'm not picking on you, but there are some things that I wanted to clarify.

 

It's REALLY hard to get banned from here, even temporarily.  We have ALWAYS, since I started on staff in 2005 (back then as MorriganShadow), leaned in favor of educating members before punishment.  It's those who repeatedly break the same rules (or different rules) without reading the TOS (which has only changed a few times since I joined the staff, and most of those changes were for clarification purposes).  There are VERY few things that will get you banned on a first offense, and they will usually get you banned ANYWHERE on a first offense.  We have a zero tolerance for spamming, site-hacking, and warez.  That's it.  Everyone that I've ever witnessed, on the staff side, being banned was REPEATEDLY educated on what the TOS said, asked to read the TOS, and asked to come to staff if they needed anything clarified.  (For the record, I have permanently banned less than 5 active members. And none in the last 2 years.  Many who say they were banned actually weren't.)

There is a LOT of stuff that we staff members used to do to make this place more fun.  We've had to curb a lot of it to watch the forums and galleries like a hawk.  We ALL have jobs/school/families outside of Renderosity, and these are all volunteer positions.  So, yes, I can think of about a million things I'd rather be doing on this site than policing threads on a site where we expect people to act with respect for one another.

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