I'm sorry to hear that Slinkerwink got banned, but I can't fucking stand the other diary and the militant post police pouncing on every questionable comment. Yeah, it's nice to have a thread dedicated to her long-time presence here, but the reverent tone was bumming me out. So, I decided to start another thread where people could speak their minds. Honestly, the entire site is getting too touchy.
The point I wanted to make, as the title would suggest, is that rules are made to be broken, but consequences are made to be paid. I only know about the banning from 2nd-hand information, so I really have no opinion on what was right or wrong. Slink probably said something that she thought needed to be said and Kos did what he thought he needed to do to keep order.
So, break some rules, man. Don't let this place get too boring. There's got to be give and take, ebb and flow, push and pull. Conflict is interesting, just don't be an asshole for asshole's sake, because if you are, then your the reason one-strike rules get made and people, good people like Slink, get banned.
By the way, some people aren't going to get past the first paragraph and they're going to start flaming me. Those are the assholes I'm talking about.