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2023-AT-18: Staff and hghwolf Reduced
Good day. I was issued a 25 point infraction by Shinaobi under Rule 3, presumably the 'play the ball, not the man' part as the post contains neither any privileged information nor does it reference reports or my ignore list, for this post. The post reads The infraction text reads as such ...
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I would have liked to see active discussion about the point Mr Skeletal raised regarding the distinction between a zero-point infraction and a Staff Notice; nobody voting for Staff Notice after that post actually said something to the effect of "and here's why I think it's not rules-breaking vs rules-breaking but so minor it doesn't merit points."
An interesting point, which nobody raised, is that hghwolf came into the Appeals forum seeking a reduction to a zero-point infraction; the outcome of Tribunal was actually more lenient than the remedy the user sought and which Arbitration denied. Presumably this is why Datcord brought up the distinction in the first place.