Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-5643582-20150816211900/@comment-4964341-20150817163011

Obi the LEGO Fan wrote: ZXSpidermanXZ wrote: If it's not verbalized in a rule these trolls will start a smear campaign on anyone who deals harsher bans on them. Many of our CMs are fearful of giving longer bans because when the user complains to an admin it makes a spectacle. Either I'm completely out of the loop since becoming less active a few days ago, or you are blowing things way out of proportion.

The trolls that we are discussing (those who abuse socks and use ToR) are 1) less frequent now than they have been in the past, 2) not respected by the community and lack the reputation to cause much of a "spectacle" or succeed in a "smear campaign." I know that this (the "smear campaigns") is the #1 reason why CMs do not ban some trolls and/or dupes for a good long while, if at all. I know this because I've talked to them about it.