This may be a long post.
I am trying not to post on bob's threads (that's why I am posting this here) because I was getting the impression that he considered my posts a disruption. I also felt that he was trying to give me a message that if I continued to post on his threads, I would be terminated from the site. I can understand a person being not allowed to post on someone's thread, but I don't think termination is the answer, if a person is banned from enough threads, they'll just leave on their own, eventually.
I have been reading his posts about his being fired from si or laid off. It seems to me that the reporters' used the word fired for a reason. They could have said that he was caught up in the layofffs, but they said he was fired amidst laysoffs. That is a little different, they way I am understanding it. Now he says he wasn't fired for deriliction of duty. Well, that may be true. But there is an in finite amount of reasons for a person to be fired. That's just one of them. What's my point? Well, I am looking at it like the rationalizations that people give when they are fined by the SEC and say they never admitted guilt, they plead "nolo contendre", (no contest) This is not a proper presentation of the situation. "No contest" in the eyes of the law is the same thing as guilty. A person generally pleads no contest because he knows he's going to lose. It's as simple as that.
These explanations about not pleading guilty, therefore they didn't do anything wrong are merely a person trying to avoid reality. In bob's case, he needs to confront the reporters and demand a retraction or a correction, otherwise the story is "he was fired".
As far as his handling of punishments, people are starting to get suspended, and the members are getting an idea of what behavior results in what punishments. cousin shorty got three days for spamming*, I believe. So people that spam should expect to get no more than three days for their first offense. If they get more, then it's understandable that they will be angry. * or whatever it was actually labeled.
Now recently there was someone that was posting code in the posts that totally caused problems. So people should be wondering what was done about all of this, and what action was taken. Now we would have an idea of what to expect if we do things that 'screw up" the site.
That would come under the header of 'fairness" and 'biased" behavior in punishments.
