Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-9062114-20141008002202

So, I want to be blunt here, the Three Bans rule that people currently enforce on the chat is quite frankly pointless for multiple reasons.

If you do not know what I am talking about, the Three Bans rule says that if a person is banned from the chat for a "third" time it has to be indefinite, which I personally think is totally pointless! First of all, This rule is completely illogical and unproductive, so if someone makes minor offences three times, each with a six month gap, they have to be indefinitly banned from chat? What sense does that make, each ban and offender is different and needs to be treated as such, this rule which treats everyone the same and every case like that, will only cause potentionally fine users to not be able to use the chat, which does NOT make sense! The other reason for it, is that the rule is really vague and has a ton of inconsistant things in it. For example, what if a ban is lifted early? Does that still count as one ban? Or what if someone abuses their powers, do those bans still count? The rule's flaw is that it treats everyone on the chat as being one way, the users mods, etc. Which anyone can tell you, they are not.

We really as a Wiki should try not to infinitely ban users often, rules like this however make it difficult to avoid that, it has honestly not been helpful at all and I think it is about time we get rid of these nonsense policies that keep coming up and being enforced  