Forum Forgiveness Policy
Many of you recently participated in an
informative and well thought out discussion on the Waffles forums. You aired concerns over the moderation here, and got a chance to speak up with your likes and dislikes. As staff, our job is to listen to your concerns and where necessary, take the appropriate course of action. Some of you have felt that our moderation as of late has been a bit too heavy-handed, and to some extent, we agree.
To that end, we've come up with what we
hope is a peaceful solution for everyone. We're going to be allowing many formerly banned users back (whether they were forum or site banned), as a show of good faith.
Please understand that we will
in no way tolerate derogatory behavior toward staff or other Waffles.fm members, and the rules will remain in place. However, the forum moderation will be less intense. There will be no more danger of losing your Waffles account for minor forum-related infractions (nonsense, trolling, off-topic meandering) though permanent posting bans may still be utilized.
We sincerely hope that you will find these small changes to be in the spirit of community, and the growing pains we've had to endure. We really appreciate you all as members and realize that without these forums and you guys, we'd never have gotten to where we are today. So, thank you all.
Technical babble: Although we know a good deal of users who were banned and we'd like back, we can't get all of them, so if you are still in contact with some former users, please send them to our help channel on irc to be re-enabled:
irc.p2p-network.net
#waffles.fm-help
Happy New Year!
