Bloodclown wrote:It is hard to imagine a thread can be made about a specific user in which what he did, in this ‘boosting’ himself by tanking his score, and what has been already thoroughly discussed on its official thread has not ended but is instead being brought up again here. This itself in my eye’s verges on a form of harassment in that you are demeaning a player by publicly bringing his situation into the limelight with what cannot even be assumed to be sarcasm. This issue with Dark Cyborg’s ‘boosting’ could have been solved more simply with a lenient punishment and a warning that any further occurrence of this kind would result in a ban or suspension of his account.
Let us be reasonable how often do you believe ‘boosting’ by tanking your own score to not promote a select group of individuals or an individual occurs. Harassment itself is against the rules and even that has an illusory and subjective scale of being enforced and interpreted, there is not even a clear distinction as to what harassment constitutes since its base definition is solely dependent on a person’s state of mind and their willingness to be offended and to speak risks offense.
This issue with Dark Cyborg is based on the original thread by him and many of the responses levied to him by various users seems to just indicate an unwillingness to even consider that what he did is petty and being punished severely for what could just be ‘boosting’ indiscriminately, not to mention many of the remarks are basically of no actual aide to either party and contribute to what they decide to call spam by ‘spamming’ comments such as, “How is this thread still going on”. If I as a racecar driver pulled over and allowed everyone to pass me, thereby boosting, one might rightfully think a person is tanking and ruining the integrity of the sport, but we are on Dueling Book. It is understandable to wish to uphold your rules but how often do you see someone pull over and allow everyone else an indiscriminate advantage? Not blatantly as he did either if you truly believe he did this to ‘boost’ others. But would it not be more fair and even simpler to give him another chance and if anything along this line occurred again that you bring down the hammer?
This seems like an anomaly and whether you think he is lying about his story, whether you think he is completely wrong for ‘boosting’ negatively indiscriminately, whether it is against the rules is completely up to the moderators/admins/higherups but the actual punishment for the crime? If needs be reset his wins, losses, and exp but I urge you to reconsider this as a poor decision or stupid and to just watch him if needs be since it is not hard to do. The punishment just is not befitting of the crime no matter how you slice it, if it were the other way around and users were found to be boosting him or you had found evidence of him boosting a select group this would have more merit to it. Penalization is fine but the scale is bordering asinine.
The moderators tought it was the best, applying the idea that this isnt acceptable in anyway, shape or form, but d1234 does not give up on saying that he was wrongfully punished.
This kind of things are listed in the the rules. The argument that they weren't specified is so weak. You can say that only positive boosting is punishable, but in reality, the mods have the final word and they decide if that enters into that category.
Ex post facto is the concept of, even after the events, if the judges think so, the punish can be harsher or lighter.
Most of us are just responding to him about why we think he is wrong. This entire drama just surged because one person is just really persistent. This isn't about Dark Cyborg, this thread started as a meme, but d1234 and others (including myself) started to discuss that here when the original thread was locked.
Even if the mods and the entire Anti-Negative Boosting is wrong, it does not delete a main factor. I have read somewhere that when you are driving, even if the truck driver is in the wrong, you should let him think he is, so you do not get crushed.
Finally, wow, this may be like crazy theory, but isn't it crazy that you are taking a more positive regarding Dark Cyborg, but him (alongside with me) is the only one who has seen your profile, and that this is your only post? I don't know, but you really are something special Dark Cyborg.