[quote=@Kangaroo]
As I've said before, there are discussions being had between the mod team, we just need to find the appropriate solution that we cna all get behind.  
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I think those discussions should also be had between the staff and the community. Plainly speaking, it would be disadvantageous for the community to allow the staff to come up with "fixes" to their issues by themselves, because it is in the administration's best interest to let this blow over, to paint everything as a non-issue, and to not have to [i]really[/i] change anything. There have been a number of ideas listed here as to how the administration can satiate the needs of the community (I'm not just talking about people perturbed about getting banned or that the staff talked smack about them, but rather about how, moving forward, administrating the site should occur) and I think that the discussion about what can/should be done should take place publicly, to allow for the kind of accountability and transparency people have been asking for.

It is seemingly more and more evident that the replies of staff have been less and less in response to the actual subject of the thread and more about policing the tone/rhetoric of the replies. While I'm happy that the moderators are here to make sure everyone follows the rules, I'd be happier if they focused on the real topic of this discussion: fixing the fundamental problems in how the staff operates.