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Darius Kazemi

@fraying This comment from him is illustrative, I think. Specifically the idea that he is owed certain treatment

(I also agree that the larger servers certainly need better community management, and that admins should in most cases proactively provide reasoning where it would not be dangerous to do so)

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Derek Powazek 🐐

@darius Yeah it's hard to see through all his bluster and ego, and I certainly wouldn't want him on my server, but he's at least raising a valid criticism. Not because he's special, but any member who has not obviously broken a rule is owed some notification about a permanent action like that.

At the very least, explain why the action was taken so people don't walk away with the wrong idea (like that posting to other services is breaking a rule).

Darius Kazemi

@fraying Yeah. I am sure he was on a large server that needs to do better by its users. And also....... it's a big yes, and. I think that if his heart was right this would've been smoothed over really quickly.

Derek Powazek 🐐

@darius Totally.

I'm just always looking to learn a community lesson, even from public freakouts from ridiculous people.

I'd bet money there's a message somewhere from an admin going "are you really Seth Abramson?" that he missed or ignored, and then the admin gave the account the boot when he didn't respond because they assumed it was a fake.

Darius Kazemi

@fraying That seems probable, yeah. There are definitely lessons to take from any community management incident.

Derek Powazek 🐐

@darius Best way to learn! Or, at least, a missed opportunity to not learn from them.

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