Board Thread:New Rules and Promotion/@comment-27144096-20160124120436/@comment-24808864-20160124172325

In that case I disagree with the original post here. The rules that VD posted from our policies do not say that spamming is different in a busy chat room vs a slower chat room.

If a user is going to be banned for using an "emoji face" in a busy room because it is spam, they should also be banned in a slow room, as the rule VD posted makes no distinction.

I can imagine there could be circumstances where one chat mod might interpret a user as being "intentionally disruptive" but another may not. In that case, the chat mod that is being "irritated" may perform the ban, but should not bully other chat mods into doing the ban for them.

I empathize with the chat mods that do not wish to ban others so quickly, I also have felt coerced into banning by certain people, and have actually done it a couple times to preserve the peace, but I will not be bullied by people any more. The chat mods were elected to their position, and may make their own choices regarding banning within their interpretation of the policies.