Thread:ThatScrewyDuck/@comment-27960787-20191001043327/@comment-39032584-20191001142053

What still frustrates me the most is that I put a lot of sincere effort to simultaneously better myself and be tolerant towards others, even though without meaning any harm, they were using the kind of language I really don't care for much more often than I felt was necessary, and that took a lot of discipline and effort on my part. Despite that, it meant so little to the moderators that making that one mistake, which was very clearly an unintentional accident that I was going to be sure not to repeat, was enough to ban me in spite of all that.

So in the end, I was actually being very tolerant towards things that other people were doing that upset me, but the moderators weren't at all tolerant or sympathetic towards me despite the fact I obviously meant no harm. I completely understand having zero tolerance towards far more deliberate and harmful behavior, like the administrators here are with users who keep plagiarizing, category-spamming, edit-warring, and generally being hostile and uncooperative. Over there however, I've noticed many other cases where there are tropers like myself who mean absolutely no harm and may just be having trouble living up to their standards in some respect, like with grammar... and they still ban them because they feel'' they're too troublesome to be worth the effort. ''They're so strict that I feel like they're basically promoting the message that people can't even make too many mistakes to begin with, even if they're willing to learn from them.

Anyway, sorry to rant. As you can tell, I'm open to talking about it, but if I do, it's hard for me not to express how fundamentally I've come to disagree with the way they operate. I think they're setting a truly horrible example to the point of basically promoting intolerance, so as much as I'd like to still be in touch with certain tropers, I've come to accept that that's just not possible with moderators like Fighteer running it. I'm also super glad I don't have to keep being both endlessly tolerant of other tropers repeatedly, casually using language that makes me uncomfortable while being scrutinized and criticized every time I unintentionally do something wrong, even if it's something minor like making an effort-post that's unnecessarily long. The other tropers on the cleanup forum may not have meant to make me feel that way, but that's how it was, and in retrospect, that just wasn't right.