Board Thread:Community Discussions/@comment-26047195-20150510172419

To counter users who repeatedly troll chat and continue to do so upon each return following bans, the administrators have approved of a general concept of harsher discipline, implementing significantly longer bans on users with "repeat offenses". (The archived petition can be found here.) However, the phrase "repeat offenders" is rather vague and loosely defined by the moderation team. Rather than being specific to the offense, it becomes a generalized label to users who "don't listen" and then a tool to implement longer bans upon them, which in some cases is rather unfair as the actual situation is overlooked. On another note, it can give a negative community label on users who aren't deserving of it or have been trying to change their conduct recently. Anyway, how specific ought a "repeat offense" be? Does it narrow down to a well-defined case (i.e. attacking, innuendo, spamming, etc) or is it left alone to be a broad definition? This is just for clarification on the matter, not a personal appeal or an attack on anybody or anything like that, so stay friendly towards other users about it please.  