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It was unkind of me to respond on Tumblr instead of directly e-mailing the user who was in trouble, and my tone was especially abrasive when it did not need to be. I was frustrated with the current state of affairs for the site and wrongly took that anger out on a post that should have been written more professionally.

For the sake of being transparent, I won’t edit or delete that post. However, I will again urge that users should not feel the need to attack or insult anyone who does not like the site. There will always be people who don’t like something, there is nothing that is universally loved. It would be hypocritical to harass someone for not liking us.

The user who was banned was banned last night prior to his post being seen on Tumblr: at the time, his conduct on the site was being discussed internally by the moderation team, and it was determined that we needed to ban his account in order to prevent the global feed from being clogged with rule-breaking content and sour grapes. Per our TOS, his behavior called for a one-week ban. The decision was made to cross-post an announcement on Discord and Tumblr about this being unacceptable behavior, and then since he had posted in our tag and our search, the decision was made to respond to him directly so that users could see where we stood on his behavior.

It was unkind of me to respond on Tumblr instead of directly e-mailing the user who was in trouble, and my tone was especially abrasive when it did not need to be. I was frustrated with the current state of affairs for the site and wrongly took that anger out on a post that should have been written more professionally.

For the sake of being transparent, I won’t edit or delete that post. However, I will again urge that users should not feel the need to attack or insult anyone who does not like the site. There will always be people who don’t like something, there is nothing that is universally loved. It would be hypocritical to harass someone for not liking us.

The user who was banned was banned last night prior to his post being seen on Tumblr: at the time, his conduct on the site was being discussed internally by the moderation team, and it was determined that we needed to ban his account in order to prevent the global feed from being clogged with rule-breaking content and sour grapes. Per our TOS, his behavior called for a one-week ban. The decision was made to cross-post an announcement on Discord and Tumblr about this being unacceptable behavior, and then since he had posted in our tag and our search, the decision was made to respond to him directly so that users could see where we stood on his behavior.