(Mar 27, 2018, 10:36 PM)Vadar Wrote: From my knowledge its up to the deciding staff member for what punishments or not are given. There are no "set in stone" punishments for various things due to no two situations being identical.

Just what I know, Someone will be able to confirm if so.
-Vadar

(Mar 27, 2018, 10:44 PM)_Cole Wrote: The rule regarding advertisement was recently changed and made more clear, hence before it didn't state whether it was specifically other Garry's Mod communities or advertising services in general.

@Quest.

(Mar 27, 2018, 10:51 PM)Nightmare Wrote: Honestly I don't see why this is a major issue that's being brought up and in my eyes, blown out of proportion. Staff punishments are issued at the discretion of the staff member involved. This is how it is and always has been since inception.

(Mar 27, 2018, 10:54 PM)Nightmare Wrote: As you heard Blackdog say, not all staff members are the same in the enforcement. We're human. That's just not possible to be on the same level as everyone on the team consistently, 100% of the time. It's completely unrealistic.

(Mar 27, 2018, 11:06 PM)Doctor Internet Wrote: It was dealt with by me, not BlackDog.

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Okay, misread your argument.

I can't speak for Blackdog, since the team isn't a hive-mind.
In my case, I hadn't recieved an @ call, despite there being at least two staff members on.

I told him to remove it. He did, then started the debate after removing it.

He did as he was asked, and then challenged the rule after. I see no issue with my actions?

(Mar 28, 2018, 01:33 AM)Overlewd Wrote: Staff have quite a bit of freedom when it comes to issuing punishments, because largely it depends on the context and prior history a lot of the time, and it's impossible to account for all possibilities and somehow end up with exactly 100% perfectly calculated punishments for each offense. 

For something like this, without any context at all, both a verbal warning and a written warning are completely reasonable outcomes. And then further context can be achieved. Gungranny edited his name as asked, when asked. If he were to start complaining and arguing, delaying the removal, he could have well gotten the perm warning. I don't know exactly the situation with your friend but regardless both perm and verbal warnings for this are fair.

Hell even IRL they have a range of possible sentences, something ridiculous like 10-40 years for the same crime depending on multiple factors. And on the server we don't have a 10 page flowchart to calculating exact punishments, taking everything into account, nor do we have the time to do so even if we had something like that.