User blog comment:TheShadowAssassin/Do something different for a change.../@comment-4257955-20121119173842/@comment-4052371-20121119211320

Riolu, you weren't there when it happened. They did it because of an honest mistake; they knew about rules like not using bad language, from the LMBs, but didn't know about this one.

Afterwards, they were very compliant and reasonable, much more so than the typical rule-breaker, and agreed not to do it again. Therefore, it was probably more productive to talk to them about it and to tell them to read the rules again than to just ban them on the spot. Besides, they already said they wouldn't do it again.

In some situations, banning isn't the best way to deal with things. I don't think it would have helped much in this case. I thought it would have been better to deal with this in a different way, because to me, it seemed like that would help more than just banning them. I admit, though, that this wasn't the best way to deal with this, and I'm sorry for being too light on them. But at the time, banning them for a week just didn't feel like the best solution.