
If there are repeated complaints about a member's behavior (with proof), does anything ever get done? It seems as if nothing does except a talking-to, but if so many people complain about so much, isn't a ban something to consider?
The 'Souls Assemblage believes very firmly in being as fair as possible and will generally work extensively with individual members to amend and adjust problematic behaviour, especially in cases where the member is receptive to warnings and appears to be making a genuine effort to improve.
We do tend to give a lot of chances for behaviour-based offenses and will hand out multiple warnings before resorting to a ban. However, recently, along with Chat bans, we have introduced the concept of OOC bans, which would bar a member from participating in most OOC areas (excepting necessities like the Maintenance thread and Post logs), but wold be allowed to continue roleplaying and using the PM system to plot. Roleplaying, after all, is what we are here to do, and we hope this "half-ban" will give us more options in disciplining members that have little IC issues, but continuous OOC issues.
For offenses related to intentional deception, art theft, graphics theft, and severely inappropriate behaviour (such as sexual harassment and threats of injury), the SA tends to be much less lenient and often enacts bans immediately.

