Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35072152-20180922083905/@comment-26318250-20180922103423

Popstar792 wrote: The users who comitted the offense though jeopordized themselves because they decided to violate their own rules. So if they do end up having to get punished for their actions, they shouldn't have anyone to blame but themself.

The thing is, at the time these rules were NOT there. At the time, the users didn't know that such rules would be implemented in the future. They just did what was considered acceptable at the time. It's like going to a country that used to torture prisoners in the Middle Ages, and wanting to punish them for torturing people.

I think we SHOULD punish users who broke rules a long time ago, if the rules they broke were implemented at the time.

Example: Bob is an admin. 2 years ago, he false-banned users for some reason, and it was overlooked. This is uncovered today. Because 2 years ago, there was a rule against false-banning people, he deserves a punishment.

Example 2: Bob is an admin. 2 years ago, it was acceptable to insult vandals and there were no rules against that, so he did it. The insults are uncovered today, with new rules that prohibit such insults. Because his offenses were committed at a time where there were no rules prohibiting, he doesn't get a punishment.

This is just common-sense - if something was acceptable in the past but no longer isn't, it isn't fair to punish someone for the thing they did, because at the time they did it, it was considered acceptable.

I will vote