Or just try to assess his points and then figure what to do? Banning should always be the last option and in this thread I see nothing that would warrant a ban for Basket Burner.
Since I missed the original thread, what makes everyone say he's Sunic? I can see some similarities in their posts, I must admit that much. However, it has already been said in one of the metaforum threads that all users should be judged by their merits here, not past behaviour. As such BB's alleged previous nicknames don't matter.
I can answer that one. Anyone that is exceptionally intelligent, has a sense of humor, and bites back is Sunic. I know this because another poster named liquid150 got accused of being him. He showed up and told the offender off for it. I've also been accused of being someone named Ubernoob, who I'm told is another person with a remotely similar style. Just because someone acts in vaguely the same way does not mean that they are the same person. Claiming that they are is a sign of Asperger's Syndrome. Not an insult, but that is one of the signs.
I do know Sunic. Sunic has been kind enough to fill in the gaps on many of the things I was confused about here and elsewhere. Which probably isn't the best thing for my outlook on these boards considering, but he's also been right far more often than not. I have not explained the relationship between myself and him, other than to roll my eyes at all of the accusations. And I am not going to, not now at least as everyone that I know well enough for that either isn't involved with these boards or doesn't care, and the rest... either nothing productive would come of it, or the person would not believe me and nothing productive would come of it. So instead I'll just allow people to think whatever they want, starting with thinking that I have a penis and leave them to their preconceived notions. At the same time, the constant accusations that are meant as flamebait given the context aren't helping anyone, though outside of a few outliers I think that we are past that now.
This probably got lost, but earlier I asked something. Warnings, in addition to being anonymous when they are sent also seem to be anonymous after being received. There's no profile option to look at them, to see this percentage that keeps getting referenced or any of that. Come to think of it, these boards are bad about giving feedback in general. Negative, because you can't see your own infraction information and positive because you can't see what you are getting kudos from and why, etc. I just treat the latter as a circle jerk number and ignore it, but not being able to see the former is a problem.
I think the entire infraction thing and percentage is solely viewable to the mods. The actual percentage itself is arbitrary, and it's up to whoever is using it to decide how many points to add (although I think each individual mod is limited by how much can be assigned per user per day, or so). It's not meant to be publicly viewable. Although, we have discussed signing the warnings, so that way, the user could discuss the infraction with them; it just doesn't do that on its own.
So far as I know, we can't set feedback on the Kudos feature, but I could be wrong.
That's... very annoying. Just the word warning implies they are just that, warnings. They don't carry any actual punishment, as they are given before the infractions. The whole percentage thing didn't even come up until after the fact. Same as being told warnings are more like infractions. Combine that with not being able to check and it's easy to be blindsided. Part of the reason I did walk away (and would have stayed gone, were it not for the flamebait thread) was because the second warning came out of nowhere talking about putting me in moderation status. The first sounded like... an actual warning. A hey knock it off, but nothing else yet. Not even knowing you are getting closer to being punished, much less how close does nothing to stop bad behavior and everything to confuse and anger people. There is also no indication as to when those things wear off.
