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9/30/2012 7:57:00 PM
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Should you be in trouble for unintended events?
[quote]9/30/2012 3:45 AM: [REDACTED][1848159] sent a warning to this user.
Warning Text: You have been sent a warning from [REDACTED] This warning's text is below:
A Bungie.net Forum Moderator has warned you for violating the code of conduct and/or rules of the forum in the thread below. Further violations will likely result in a ban.
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=75030807
Political discussion is prohibited, Ken. Please do not start threads that are near-certain turn into political discussion[/quote]
The thread in question was about how Microsoft was getting people to watch a stream of a debate by giving away armor.
The thread itself was not intended to be political, it was about the promotion. The thread also never went into a political debate nor went off-topic.
Can you punish people for a thread potentially doing something while never doing it? Also if the thread did turn into a political debate but never was intended to be, why should the OP be punished for it?
Just because something his ties to politics does not mean it is a thread about politics.
(Now I understand the reasoning of the mod, but I still feel that punishing the OP for something that never happened is silly)
[Edited on 09.30.2012 11:58 AM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] spartain ken 15 Okay but lets say in this case it is a flame war. If the OP of a thread did not make a thread to spark a flame war and someone else did, why should they be punished for it? Also why should people be punished if nothing happened? Why not just lock the thread? [/quote]Usually if there's a flame war it's because of the topic the OP chose. Of course, it really depends on the situation. As for your warning, your first few posts in that thread were talking about what political party paid Microsoft to have this promotion. How is your thread not political? Intent doesn't mean you're automatically off the hook or what you did wasn't wrong. Some of the most terrible things have beeñ done with the best intentions.
