I believe it is the case that the rules aren't meant to be a hard and fast, all encompassing, This Is How It Is.  If someone's being a dick just to be a dick I think that falls under trolling or flame baiting and as such is against the rules.  If someone feels the need to argue and fight with mods constantly then I imagine their time here will be very short indeed.  Same goes for someone intent on being a dick under the umbrella "but I'm not breaking any rules!"  This is a forum for grown-ups so I hope everyone can act like an adult here.

I don't think this will be a tightly modded forum.  I plan to not use my mod hat unless absolutely necessary.  Does this give people free range to be dicks?  No.  Does this mean I'm going to mod against people I dislike since the rules have leeway in them?  No.  There are people on the forums I don't like.  That doesn't mean I'm going to hound them and pester them because I don't like them.  That's not what a mod is meant to do (in my eyes at least).  Of course this doesn't give people I dislike free range to be dicks and then claim I'm persecuting them because I don't like them.  I plan to be fair in my actions and there are other mods and an admin with a big stick to tell me if I'm out of line.

I'm a big fan of the FOAD approach.  It's honest, but doesn't descend into real nastiness, like name-calling or knocking on someone's door and beating them up.  I'm about 99% sure that Kyle agrees.

What's FOAD?

<edited because Zahnnie is teh sex, and typed faster than me>

Yay! I'm not the only Gaia junkie! If only my posting here increased my gold count there...... *goes back to questing for the white top hat*

I used to do that whole Gaia thing. Right before they added like a bajillion servers. I had Mini Nitemare Wings.

So, since we're all newbies here, do we fight to the death for supremecy and cool points? Or do we simply gan status by not acting like total jerk offs? I'm for either, really.

*Shoots 'Coon*

*Shoots sinic*

Hey!  What about me?

I've got wrath too, y'know!

*Concentrates reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally hard*

*Hops at Ashy*

Huh.  I think I may need my wrath recalibrated.

I think it would be easier to make the rules flexible here. With xF, that was a huge and long established community, and the rules were more like laws- set in stone and if you were within them, that was okay, even if you were being a dick. It was necessary because of the size of the place.

Here, it's new, we're all just learning and making things up as we go along. That means rules can be changed or added or taken away easily, until we have something nice and suitable.

You're lucky you let me bitch about stupid/annoying/obnoxious people to you otherwise I'd never let you get away with that.

Yeah.

*Still fierce*

*Like Biff*