I have a little concern here that nobody seemed to care about the "I cannot tell what post or thread this infraction is attached to" thing, because that seems kind of worrying, given that this is someone who - as proven in the immediately previous tribunal does in fact know how infractions work as the infractee.
It's something that's pretty easily corrected, is the thing. Arbitration will tell you where an infraction was applied. Subforum or thread bans can prevent a user from seeing their own posts or the context, but either Arbitration or Advocates can provide that text. So... it's hard to say that this should be a mitigating factor, or indeed taken into account in any way
for the appeal, unless it results in a very long delay of proceedings because they need information they aren't being given.
Now, obviously Moderation should see that and go "We should be better in our communication." But it's not relevant to the appeal itself in most cases.
Anyway. Evilchumlee did post in the Ask an Advocate forum for this infraction, and I dithered heavily about advising them. I ultimately decided against, because I couldn't actually find any ability in myself to sincerely argue that this should have been a warning rather than an infraction. I don't need to be 100% on an appellant's side, I can be ambivalent or even privately lean against them, but there needs to be
some part of me going "you know, they've got a point." Usually I can find it; possibly I'm just burned out on doing that for infractions stemming from the fucking Israel-Palestine thread. But I just didn't have it in me, this time.
(Also, shout out to
@Potato Anarchy, whose ruling, I thought, was extremely well composed. I see a lot of Arbitrator rulings, and this is one of the best.)
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) letter K bit here was to put the argument for one tribunal in the other which is an inspired choice imo.
