To take my scenario farther.

Say we have Random Pack o' Trolls. They decide they want me gone, they don't like my name (for lack of a more pathetic reason). So they start trying to antagonize me. And I get pissed at Troll 1 and call him an ass.

"Troll 1 you're an ass!" I say in frustration.

And Troll 1 runs to B'cracy and says "I want askye Officially Warned, she called me an ass!" and all his little Troll Buddies chime in "Yeah, that offended me, she can't just call someone an ass, we have community standards."

Then ita would say "Did you try to resolve that in thread?"

The Trolls would say "No" and ita would say "go back and try to fix it in thread."

So the Trolls would go back in thread and say "you called Troll 1 an ass, how dare you!" and I would say "I'm really sorry, I had a bad day and snapped, you were right I shouldn't have called you an ass."

Situation resolved.

But wait! you say--what if Pack o' Trolls does this again to me and I lose my temper again and they run back. "askye insulted Troll 3's intelligence" and the same Pack o' Trolls seconded for a warning and it turns out they didn't try and resolve it in thread.

Well, I think after a few attempts of the Pack o' Trolls trying to get people kicked out people would twig to the fact that the Pack o' Trolls were the ones violating the community standards.

This was really xposty but I'll let it stand.

Am I wearing a Jesse costume today or something? That's two people who've called me that today.

Jess, if you'd take off the cowboy hat, maybe it'd stop happening.

I think I see a cowboy hat, Jess!

Am I wearing a Jesse costume today or something? That's two people who've called me that today.

Who, msbelle? I think she was referring to what I said, but if you said the same thing, well, I guess we just have to stop agreeing with each other so as to avoid name confusion.

oops sorry Jess. Too many threads open at once.

Who, msbelle? I think she was referring to what I said, but if you said the same thing, well, I guess we just have to stop agreeing with each other so as to avoid name confusion.

Wait, you mean we aren't living in my world where everything is about me? When did that happen?

I think after a few attempts of the Pack o' Trolls trying to get people kicked out people would twig to the fact that the Pack o' Trolls were the ones violating the community standards.

Bingo.

Okay, I feel like I missed a memo. Where does this concern for troll packs and bullying gangs come from?

I mean, this was mentioned, back before the vote, and it was pointed out that troll packs and bullying gangs are really freaking obvious. It's not like our Stompies are brain dead or paid personnel that don't frequent these threads and don't know who's who. They post here. They know the names of posters. They know people's posting styles.

If 10 random people just show up one day and demand a warning, I think the Stompy on duty is going to notice that they've been here for, like, five minutes and that they’re being really obvious. A coordinated attack of Buffista bullies? Again really freaking obvious.

I’m not getting this.

Wait, you mean we aren't living in my world where everything is about me? When did that happen?

Ah, now I see where the confusion is coming from. Everything is about me.