The banning of GS.

Everyone has broken the fucking rules. Everybody. What I don't understand is this fucking double standard. A mod breaks the rules, shit doesn't happen; Grav makes a flame toward Sovereign somewhere other than the flame forum, simply so Sovereign can read it, and his ass is gone for a month. D3V posts some personal shit about Bob, and his ass is gone. Sovereign posts some shit Penguin doesn't want, and nothing fucking happens.

There is a huge difference here, and you still are clearly uninformed if that is what you think happened...

Sovereign had his priviledges from the Flame Forum taken away a month or so ago. He has them back now, and I honestly don't know for how long. Grav did not have to post any such thread outside of the Flame Forum for Sov to see it, he could have simply wrote him a PM with it referenced, saying that was a thread in the FF, just as an FYI, so to say. He blatently broke the rules for no apparent reason other than to instigate a fight with Sov. And he was Banned for 2 weeks, not a month. And the Ban was lengthened because he continually made multiple accounts. Remind you of anyone? *cough* The1 *cough* Get your facts straight.

D3V was not Banned because of personal shit he posted about Bob, not initially that is. The key part you are missing is the simple fact that Bob Warned D3V not to post that crap anymore, because he found it highly inappropriate. This was all done via PM. After D3V did it again, he was Temped, for 5 days. Big fucking deal, right? Apparently not.

Sovereign posted a picture of Penguin in a thread. There is no rule against that. Instead of going about it the proper way, which Bob did above, and asking Sov not to post it anymore, Penguin simply Edited the post, and made ill threats with no backing. That is where the discrepancy came. Had he been rational in the beginning and not gone on his Editing spree, this would not have been such a problem.

Now, since then, an "Amendment" has been made to the rules that clearly specified that Staff must first contact via PM the member if they have a problem with content of someone's post. This rule is only for content, such as pics being posted or private life issues under discussion. The rest of rules are the same as before.