by lgoasklucyl on Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:12 pm
I would have to say it's more of a blatant flame-bait than flame itself; as he disguised trying to get you to go off on him through a comment that can or cannot be taken as direct flaming. Obviously, flame-baiting is also a violation of the TOC as stated on the guidelines page. As I've learned through experience, however, only certain member must abide by those guidelines. Other members are free to run around, baiting every other post (even creating posts that encourage nothing along the lines of conversation!), without so much as a slap on the wrists.
Perfect example? A post, created with an incredibly childish insult in the TITLE (there you go mods- you don't even have to READ it; it's ALREADY a flame!), is reported and immediately closed. However, the SAME post is locked for violation of the TOC by a different moderator than the one who closed the report days after it was considered 'closed'.
Here's an idea: GET ON THE SAME PAGE. You want us to stay in line? Try not having entirely different standards with regards to individuals (not) being able to break the TOC and get away with it. Especially, don't crawl up one user's ass and warn/ban him for doing the SAME thing when another user's thread won't even get locked.