Thread:Bourgeoisie/@comment-4552817-20150216091843/@comment-33628828-20150217175436

Drew1200 wrote: I'll just stop by to leave my usual comment. Ajr, I want to remind you the BCGirl was the one in this situation who had the authority to interpret and enforce the policy. Just because you don't understand her reasoning does not invalidate her warnings or ban. If you think the ban was unjustified, you can bring it up in a thread like you have here. However, saying that you don't care about the warnings is not going to get you very far.

In all honesty, when a moderator gives a user several warnings for something that may or may not have been a policy violation, and the user ends up ignoring all of the warnings and getting banned, I'm naturally inclined to side with the moderator. Even if the policy wasn't violated, it's just pure stupidity to ignore a moderator's warnings and expect to not be banned. So even if you disagree with a warning, please don't just say "I kind of don't care". If you'd like, you can have a civil conversation with that moderator in a private message, but responding to a warning by saying "I don't care" lacks any form of common sense.

(and if it really comes down to it, just accept the warnings because of this rule: "If a user requests that you stop doing something, then you are required to stop unless there is a good reason you should continue.") Sorry, but just because someone has a pretty star beside their name doesn't make them better than me. I accept that I will abide by policies on a project, and I do. But I don't blindly follow the ill-conceived warnings of an individual when they are entirely unjustified and have no demonstrable basis in policy.

It should also be noted that there was one "warning" by a mod clearly not following the situation. And still, two days after, I have yet to have anyone explain to me what that warning was for.

In that case, I had no good reason /not/ to continue. I was conversing with Bourg and was not saying anything incivil. And FWIW, I said that I didn't care after another user told me that I had to stop because a mod said so. Like I said, them being a mod only gives them the power to enforce policy - not the power to make it up as they go along. That's a basic wiki principle right there. Otherwise, I could start making up VSTF policy as I go along, and nobody would like that.