Posted 03 December 2004 - 07:38 AM
No one forced me to take action against KC in any situation. Every single time action was taken against him there was a warning, and in the recent situation with the current action there was more than one warning. I gave him more than one chance because I thought he would improve, but he continued the sarcastic remarks, insults, and harassment. I remember discussing his image to him at least two months ago because I was hearing what some said about some of his actions and statements. Some were considering him elitist due to his negative comments about SeeD in the wilderness and elsewhere. I warned him about all that on AIM to try to prevent this and he just shoved it away, I tried to help but he either did not see it or did not care. I am not one to say because I do not know, and will not discuss that any further because it doesn't really matter anymore.
Yes, a few members kept bugging me to ban him for a while. All the way back a few months actually. The same happened with others at some time or another. I never take ban requests into account but if action needs to be taken and someone happened to request it as well, I'm sorry to say it but action would be taken. Otherwise the requests could be used as a shield, even if no one recommended action it would have been taken anyway. Obviously no way to prove what would have happened if another course were taken, but I am very sincere with what I am saying.
KC was a friend of mine. I tried to help him out just as he did the same for me. Something happened though and he began to portray himself differently, much more negatively (possibly not intended, but it continued). This includes his support of Muler's points stating that almost all of SeeD consists of idiots, his repeated provocation of Bes and others, as well as other incidents. I am not saying that he is a bad person. I for one know that he is not. When all this gets out of hand though, something needs to be done.
I posted the warning, and unfortunately he did not take it seriously...
It is not a permaban, as I said. In this situation though, it is unfortunately required and when the ban is removed I hope all this will be left behind us.
As for everyone else, I'm really serious about this. Stop attacking him, and if you do not know the exact circumstances for all this first-hand then please don't pretend you do. With this, you will just make things worse, regardless of whether you're siding with or against him. This thread will be promptly closed if anything else erupts, and no, there will be no poll.