I'm going to clear things up, or at least what I can directly speak about regarding my on view on the situation. Bandarr WAS warned, except this warning was done on Friday circa 6pm my time by myself. This was a warning intended to warn them to take a step back from the thread and to please gather their thoughts before coming back because it was very clear that they seemed out of sorts with their comments and believing they were likely to get themselves banned at that point in time.
At no point at the time did I consider banning them myself, but it was brought up that behavior like this while other people were trying to have a proper argument wasn't something we want to encourage at all, so a temp ban was given for the sake of making it clear this was made acceptable at all. If this was simply a one off occurrence I wouldn't have agreed with it myself, but Bandarr has constantly treated this argument in a bad faith manner enough times to make a ban warranted in my own view.
Complaining that we're trying to make this a place where people can freely share their stuff without people acting like asses towards them, and then strawmanning this by saying that we're demanding all art be taken on the same level as stuff in museums is absurd and helps nobody at all. If you seriously think this kind of arguing is respectable, then I can only say we deeply disagree on the matter and would not want to see a board filled with these kinds of argument sin the first place, especially when you start complaining about how people disagree with you after the fact.
At no point at the time did I consider banning them myself, but it was brought up that behavior like this while other people were trying to have a proper argument wasn't something we want to encourage at all, so a temp ban was given for the sake of making it clear this was made acceptable at all. If this was simply a one off occurrence I wouldn't have agreed with it myself, but Bandarr has constantly treated this argument in a bad faith manner enough times to make a ban warranted in my own view.
Complaining that we're trying to make this a place where people can freely share their stuff without people acting like asses towards them, and then strawmanning this by saying that we're demanding all art be taken on the same level as stuff in museums is absurd and helps nobody at all. If you seriously think this kind of arguing is respectable, then I can only say we deeply disagree on the matter and would not want to see a board filled with these kinds of argument sin the first place, especially when you start complaining about how people disagree with you after the fact.
