Forever is just too long indeed IMHO I much rather have the KC team to interfear than that we would be able to punish one another
forever .
It has a tricky side effect as well which we may not directly think about but if a person is abusing the negative ratingssystem too much it may be even worst for their, maybe not visable, reputation and for this reason it is a too strong tool as well.
Because if one can not stop to be angry they may be better of not to be able to use that negative rating button.
People think and talk a lot and that can't be made undone not even by taking back those negative ratings.
The moderators tend to repremand very in general and not focussed on one person.
I bet they do that for a reason the people it concerns know very well they were part of something which the moderators do not feel is sound or is against KC's TOS I sure know when Callie chimes in like in general but means, beyond others, me with it
I also think they are more objective they are no part of a niche of friends and their concern is that their forum is freely accesable for everyone to speak their mind within their TOS.
Sometimes topics are closed if things get out of hand in my opinion moderators may be more visable in potentionally difficult topics to indeed protect younger people or people who less easily are able to defend themselves for what ever reason.
In general, call me a softy if you want, I feel for people who feel unwanted or a target by the way they speak.
We have lots of possibilities to let one and other know we do not quite appreciate how an other is behaving.
What is wrong with just using words to address that instead of having people walking on eggshells?
If they even have the courage to participate in an hostile environment in which they get downrated.
I strongly believe in the power of words and that is what a forum is all about anyway.
If I used that rating button by every contribution in which I don't like something it would be not so full of green figures here
It is just I rather solve stuff differently in most instances.
In less than a handfull situations I marked a negative but after some time I removed it again because it's just water under the bridge at a certain point.
