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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?
Oh for goodness sake.
There's a world of difference between asking someone to stop trolling a thread and actually calling them a troll.
Oh and just so you're not unprepared. If I see you pull a stunt like posting a spammers links on their behalf or jumping into 'rescue' someone who's be asked politely to stop causing trouble (Like what happened with Janszoon and another mod in Slappy Jenkins thread) you WILL be getting an infraction.
Being nice to people doesn't make you above the rules.
Have a nice day.
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Of course if I were posting a spammer's link on her or his behalf, I would expect to get an infraction, Urban.
The question that should be answered first, though, is whether the person had been spamming or not.
In the case where I offered to post someone's link after it was deleted, a member who had been here posting for a year asked for feedback on his first recording of a song. I provided feedback. He revised the song and was going to post the new version.
Then he saw that the link to his first demo had been removed as "advertising." Rebuffed, he didn't continue sharing his next recording.
http://www.musicbanter.com/song-writ...ml#post1282273
A year earlier, a mod had asked this member politely in his intro thread (where I first met him) to stick around and get to know people before posting a link to his music. So he did just that. He stuck around for a *year* and got to know some people (perhaps not you or other mods). Then he posted his song, only to have it deleted, even after I'd responded to his music by giving him the feedback he requested, and he had revised his song.
From my perspective, I was in a music discussion with a legitimate member, and a mod stepped in and broke up that discussion by deleting the link to the music in question. My view was that he was an established, contributing member. If such a member has his music deleted, then of course I will offer to post his song again because I *want* long-time, contributing members to feel welcomed to discuss their music here. I felt his waiting one year to do that was long enough and definitely not advertising.
So the question I had after that situation was the following: how do mods decide which members are "established, contributing members?" Since no firm definition exists, it isn't clear, and we (members vs. mods) may come to different conclusions.
I don't think it is, or should be, against the rules to be nice to established, contributing members.
Being nice to members also encourages more of them to stay and *become* long-term, contributing members.
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