User blog comment:Stuartfergie/Changing the current policy of deleting and editing comments/@comment-5237598-20130709115334/@comment-11707875-20130709150724

@God,

I suppose it does seem like I'm defending it, doesn't it? I'm not sure how I can say this without looking like a hypocrite, but I'll give it a go... The people you talk about who have aimed personal attacks at the admin - I'm guessing some of them were directly affected by what he did. Now I'm not saying that he deserves anything that they might have said to him, and I'm not saying that they aren't wrong for saying it (because they are) - I'm saying that the admin did something, this impacted on these people, these people got angry and did something. So there is a relationship there. The site I run is a gaming site, right? We have a certain type of gameplay. We also own a server. The rules that we have must be abided by in the server or I can ban them permanantly. I usually issue two warnings and do a temporary kick before banning. Sometimes, on really bad days, I might skip the first part and jump to the second.

So when our website recieves complaints, insults, threats - I am aware that it's something I did, yeah? I banned them. A small minority of those people I was probably unfair to. But either way, I know I don't deserve the attacks, but I understand why I get them, if that makes sense.

Sometimes, though, I do get people who are reasonable (like I hope I'm being now) in telling me what they think I did wrong and I will listen to them and decide if I could have done something better.

Hope that clears it up, x).