User blog:New Dalek Paradigm/Urgent - Regarding a New "Chat Rule"

Hi, everyone,

As some of you may know, I was inactive for a very long while not too long ago. Unfortunately, I didn't happen to get the word on some of the rules changing, more or less state my opinion on a few of them. While I agree with a lot, there was one that I was absolutely outraged with.

So, I had just gotten on Chat last night. The day was April Fools, so of course there were plenty of jokes going around. About 10 minutes after I'd arrived, an undisclosed user got on. Their name happened to be similar to that of an LMB official. They performed no harm to anyone (unless if saying "Hi, wassup?" is a harm to any of you), though nearly 30 seconds after they'd arrived, they were banned by an undisclosed Chat Moderator.

I PM'ed that Chat Moderator, expecting a logical explaination. I was told that I obviously hadn't been around for awhile, which is quite true in my case. I asked for the reason for the ban, and received the answer that it was some new rule. Apparently, if a CM wants to, they can ban a new user at will if they think it's a dupe.

I asked why that was made a rule, and I got the response of "Because of Norvik's incident". Very, very logical answer. Whoever wrote this rule is (sorry to say) either wrong in the head or extremely paranoid about Norvik. Just because one user creates numerous different accounts gives no one the right to judge who is a duplicate account, and who is a genuine new user. Anyone remember the one named after MKM who disabled her account because no one liked her name? It's the same story, except Chat Moderators interferring this time.

Call me wrong, I don't care if you do. I just find it absolutely ridiculous that Chat Moderators are allowed to ban someone at will because their gut tells them to do it. Essentially, if I'd never been New Dalek Paradigm, and I was happy as ever to join the LEGO Message Boards Wiki, and created an account called "OceanBellaROCKS", then I'd get banned. Seems very mature.

I understand Norvik impacted the community very hard, but it's not worth allowing this. Perhaps this isn't a written rule, I still have yet to read the latest batch of them. Even if it's not, it's still unspoken yet out there.

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