Airmax was justified with his ban on Jifpop

I am going to build my case and offer contentions in the following round. The first thing I want to note is that Juggle owns DDO and this is a privately owned site. They are allowed to set up and rules and regulations that they please. This is commonly referred to as the TOS. When you make an account on this site you are agreeing to abide by the TOS and everything within it. It is the moderators job to ensure that people abide by the TOS to the fullest. If you break the TOS you are given a chance to fix your behavior(possibly multiple chances), and then if you continue to break the rules and guidelines that are on the site you will be issued a ban in a attempt to correct your behavior. DDO TOS - View TOS (my link is broken for some reason. Apologies). Ask ore or max if you need it.Burden of Proof - I will accept the burden of proof in this case to show that airmax was justified in Banning JifpopJustified - to prove or show to be just, right, or reasonable[2]Revised Policy on Personal Attacks - [3]The revised policy on personal attacks go into great detail about what you can and cannot due when you insult a member personally. This is in response to the TOS, because it touches on this for a brief 3 words. It says something along the lines of "do not attack people". Airmax took the time to write out an entire response and forum clarifying what attacking people means. C1) Response to the in Defense of Jifpop postJifpop says this in a defense post he put up for himself. " Welcome everybody, I wish to tell you all of my story. The one I never got to tell, for simple yet peculiar reasons. Airmax, had come to me with a list of 4 special complaints. Complaints about my conduct on this site. He badgered me for a little while, requesting I defend myself. I waited a while, thinking and devising my response, until I recieved a PM from Airmax. It said I have one hour to defend my actions to him, or I will be perma-banned. That hour never came though, as Airmax closed my account not ten minutes after writing that PM. I feel I still owe DDO my defense though, so lets begin with the four charges brought against me, in my final hours of DDO" [4]The first thing I want to notate is something that everyone needs to be aware of. The list that was presented by Jifpop and max was a reoccurring issue. Meaning airmax went to jifpop on a day to day basis asking him to change his behavior. (a) That entire list that jifpop wrote and that airmax laid out was only THAT DAYS OFFENSES. I want you to really let that sink in. This entire controversy was about issues that kept reoccurring but when you read all of this and assume all of those issues were an ongoing problem (which they were), in this specific instance that entire message airmax sent jifpop was only about issues jif was causing on that specific day. This shows the great length at which jif would go on a day to day basis to break site policies. (b) That entire list was a list of offense that had only occurred that day, but that kept occurring over and over on a day to day basis. C2) Ad Homs and Attack threadsThis is a direct violation of the new site policy that was created by airmax and which is enforced by juggle. Bear in mind that any user that goes agaisnt site policy and conduct has the right to be banned. This is juggles website and they can decide what is ban worthy and what is not ban worthy. By accepting the TOS and joining you are under juggles authority and everything that entails including the new site policy on personal attacks[3]. Not this is not really a new policy but just a clarification on what is actually considered a personal attack because the TOS was so vague. Jifpop has made numerous attack threads insulting members and calling them out publicly. Airmax has removed most of these so as far as posting them publicly, it will almost be impossible. This however should be common knowledge. Most members on here can recall logging in and seeing a call out thread by jifpop in which a good many of us posted in and then the thread being removed later on. Here are just a few examples when he got into a rage war with a southern member" Do I know you. It says you joined 10 hours ago. Why don't run off and cry to someone who cares. For all I know your another bigot hick. " - [6]He even acknowledges that " Alright, well low blows are my specialty" [6]He then rages so much that he makes a call out thread and a debate saying, that if he wins the person has to leave the site for 2 weeks. Listing them as terrible people [7]Airmax briefly address why he was banned in regards to personal attack in this post[5]C2A ) Breaking the site policyThis line of logic and harassing members continued up to this ban. This was a direct violation of the rules within the new site policy. " This is where, outside the context of a discussion on the topic or of behavior in the course of that discussion, someone posts something negative about a specific member. Generalized complaints about generalized behaviors are not direct attacks. But, for example, a thread specifically calling out a member by name, and speaking negatively about them, is a direct attack. Attack threads will be deleted out of hand. " [3]As I stated airmax has deleted a majority of these threads and posts that jifpop has made. He also has accused multiple members of vote bombing which is in direct violation of the new policy as well [8]. See this entire debate and the comments. There were threads about this as well where he accused people voting in favor of zaradi to be vote bombers [8]" Accusing a member of misconduct (such as votebombing) is serious. Obviously, misconduct is bad. But likewise, baseless accusations are bad.If you're going to accuse a member of something, remember that serious accusations require serious evidence. Egregious misconduct of the kind likely to warrant immediate banning should be reported to airmax1227, rather than complained about in the forums. However, if you want to discuss something like an accusation of a supposed vote bomb, you may bring up the vote for discussion, provided you actually have cause to make the accusation. Without that evidence, an accusation is as stifling to discussion as a threat." [3]As we can clearly see he has violated the TOS and new policy several times, with countless more violations being deleted because he was insulting members. Due to jif having an account on DDO and having accepting the TOS and juggles guidelines and rules, personally and continually violating the TOS and new policy is a justified reason for a ban. C3) Fair moderation and multiple chances. Being a recipient of airmaxes grace and kindness I can assure you jif had received multiple warnings and chances to fix his behavior before he was banned. I receive warnings from airmax every now and then and well, and all he asks is that I acknowledge my mistake and restrain myself from doing it again. View this exampleMonday, May 19, 2014 @ 10:31:24 PMPosted by:Profile Cardairmax1227 "arguing with him is like taking a fish and slapping yourself with it. I would not waste your effort or time"Avoid this kind of thing.... and in general please avoid any kind of insults... Monday, May 19, 2014 @ 10:59:40 PMPosted by:Profile CardMikal okieAll he generally asks is that you abstain from site attacks on people directly and if you personally attack someone he will confront you about it and ask you to stop. If and only if you continue to personally attack and violate the rules will he ban you. I have not been the only one to receive this type of warning, even rational mad man one of DDOS most notrious members was given chances to fix himself before being perma banned. In addition to RMM, zarrottte received multiple warnings about her behavior and attacks on the site. So much so that she made a new account and tried to integrate herself back into the community. After much deliberation she acknowledge that she overstepped boundaries and that she was in the wrong. She is now a really liked member within the community. C4) SpamMost of this has went away but does anyone recall the revolutionary party? All the spam in the polls and main DDO page that he was warned about multiple times. This is also in direct violation of site conduct and the TOS. Spamming is directly prohibited. C5) Not responding to airmaxJif was contacted and asked to acknowledge that he understood that days offences and what he did wrong. (again note this was an ongoing occurrence and this was just the issues about that specific day). Airmax gave him a time limit to respond and instead of acknowledging airmaxs warning, he sent out a giant rant about moderation in a mass personal PMThis was the final straw. He directly ignored multiple warnings and even ignored a chance to correct his behavior. At this point he had/has(a) Personally attacked more members than I can count(b) Directly went against moderation(c) Spammed polls and posts(d) Created attack thread and debates(e) Chose to sent out a giant pm harassing moderation instead of acknowledging his warning. [5]ConclusionBy joining DDO you are accepting the rules and regulations in the TOS and everything that it entails. If you chose to break the rules a ban is justified due to you have accepted the rules to begin withJif has broke these rules and continued to break these rules. A ban was justified. Sources[1] view TOS. My link is broken for some reason[2] http://www.merriam-webster.com...[3] http://www.debate.org...[4] http://www.debate.org...[5] http://www.debate.org...[6] http://www.debate.org... [see comments][7] http://www.debate.org...[8] http://www.debate.org...