Close the thread? Why? I've got stuff to say that nobody has said yet. What's with all you people thinking you are valid judges to know when a thread ought to be closed? If you could judge that, one might think you would be a moderator who has the ability to do so.
the important thing is he's changed.
Lies! D:
Lies and slander! How could you even speak such horrible words?!
The notion the things change over time. Absurd...
You should value your users.
What?! This site is run for the mods and mods alone! Why else would we have ban powers?
users. They are what make the hive so great as it is right now.
This one isn't so percieved as blatantly true that I can sarcastically respond as some illogical fool. This one I have to explicitly agree with using words to show my agreement. What you say is completely true. Additionally, there isn't anyone besides the normal users making the site a great as it is right now.
This is ridiculous, Fr1kY is being punished now for something he did in
October last year?
That's it! I warned you guys. I'm going to -rep you.
When I get around to it...
art theft is inexcusable.
As an artist, I beg to differ.
Cheat once, get a massive warning and possibly a ban from the next competition. Cheat the second time, ban forever. End of story. What kind of a noob would give someone four chances?!
Yes. As it would happen, FrIkY did not cheat three times. What he did was CnP three times. (Unless I'm terribly, terribly, mistaken. In which case, I would hope someone would be so kind as to correct me.)
All of the contests would be contests of who can cheat the best.
They already are. It is an effect of public voting.
I think FrIkY is one of the very few cases that succeeded in somewhat redeeming himself.
Very, very, few.
Eventually, I think most of us will learn to forgive him.
I dunno. People tend to forget they they have the ability to forgive.
Imagine yourself working on a map for an year and then your map is denied due to a past offence of... let's say deprotecting a map.
I'd pack up and leave. There's only so much you can do incompetently before you get called incompetent.
However if he has stolen work then he needs to be punished for that.
Hasn't he already? (Open question.)
Freaking pissed off how the staff does things here
Plenty are. Even (especially?) among the staff.
I think that it's ridiculous for you to criticise the staff for this though. FrIkY WAS the instigator here, so you shouldn't deify him or anything.
The two are neither the same, nor carry any implication of the other.
You don't drag a baseball player off the field in the middle of batting...just to say "HE DID STEROIDS! SORRY GOTTA PULL HIM OUT!"
You especially don't do it months after the fact.
Because you are liable to get hit in the face with the ball.
Or the bat.
I agree that I should be punished for my sins
Well too bad.
It's not up to you! >
But... punish me after this contest ends and let me participate... please... I promise I will never do it again, no, I will never think about it again in my life! I will try to improve myself even more, I'll help, do requests, review maps, give tips and useful comments! Anything! ... Give me a six months ban from contests if you want, but please let it be after the #13 Texturing Contest.
Whereas some would see this as an opportunity to
really punish, seeing as you
actually care about it for the punishment to be effective at all, I see all the more reason to forgive.
He's already been punished, leave the poor sod alone.
Aye.
The punishing factor is, indeed, not the end aim, but it's necessary to acheive deterance.
Your assertion is that there is no other method to achieve deterance. How easily it is tested.
We also wouldn't have a liar, a cheat, and a thief in the community.
We don't now. (At least not FrIkY.)
He's the same man, whether his actions have changed or not.
Please give logic to support your assertions, so others may find reason to assert them as well. To counter your assertion, one need only understand time.
Who says he won't just cheat again?
Most importantly, he himself has said so. Aside from that, now he knows he cannot get away with it.
Someone that doesn't get that ... and cheats
You speak in present tense. What you speak of happened in the past. The present is not the past. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to tell time had passed.
doesn't deserve the privilege to have fun
Any statement that contains that substring as a positive assertion, is a statement I cannot agree with.
It has becomen quite off-topic now. Perhaps it's time to close it?
The hell it has. It sure is a good thing we don't allow everybody the ability to close threads.
