Parole

[StarSock64]

I dont care if i know about the topic or not

Maybe you should, so that you don't sound like a complete idiot

i know that giving someone a chance is not a weakness at all. Even if someone just spent hours and hours of shitposting in the past and got banned for it, i would give them a second chance eventually if they wanted one to see if they genuinely changed. If they did then good, if not then ban.

Yeah that sounds nice, doesn't it? Gee, I didn't even consider that

I'm glad everything is so simple in your world

This site has a history of trying exactly what you said (as has been already stated), but the problem is that these people are really only interested in screwing with everybody for fun, so they skirt the rules in the gray zone for months at a time (for example, by using their Totally Radz posting styles to pretend that they're just "joking" whenever you call them out for flaming, even though when you talk to them on skype or read their posts on facebook or whatever it's clear that they really think poorly of those people and are maliciously insulting them in front of their faces while ensuring that you can't "prove" it)

This isn't something that's happened once or twice, I'm talking about something that's happened MULTIPLE times over the course of actual YEARS

Your idea's already been tried. IT DOES NOT WORK with people who make it clear that they have no intention of playing fair (such as by, I don't know, breaking the rules by making several alts? Then whining that the bans on the alts weren't fair because they "weren't making bad posts," EVEN THOUGH IT'S EXPRESSLY AGAINST THE RULES TO MAKE ALTS. Then making the staff team out to be the bad guys because they didn't get their free handout. Then continuously trying to get a free handout by breaking the rules instead of asking for it through the proper channels. Yes. Great intentions.)

Honestly, the staff should probably just be more decisive about banning these people who keep skirting that gray line when they know that they're full of crap. But I feel for them a bit, you know, because every time they try to ban them...

you have the idiot defense brigade filled with people --very similar to you-- who think every problem can be solved by just being nice to people, because nobody would EVER take advantage of that, and this defense brigade will complain every single time these rule-breakers get banned, because they haven't paid enough attention to notice that they ARE breaking rules, because it is not obvious at a glance, and the defense makes no attempts to try to understand the situation first.

So yeah, no, your idea causes a lot of undue stress on staff members who don't deserve it, just to pander to people who don't deserve a second chance, in part because the staff will have to answer to people like you