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Righto, here comes another locked topic, but first:
Mahdi-Abedi and Pranam, I'm issuing you both an official caution at this point (Mahdi, you need to be especially careful here, as you've gotten two warnings not so very long ago). I want the two of you to leave each other alone. Stop sniping at each other. Stop bringing your off-forum drama onto the forum. Stop sabotaging each other, responding to each other and taking digs at each other. Warnings and further will result if you don't start behaving like forum users who actually deserve to be here.
The level of ridiculous reports, silly posts and such that I've been seeing over the last week and a half or so is blowing my ever-loving mind, and I've got to say I'm losing patience awfully quickly. You two aren't the only culprits, but you're definitely the most vocal.
Some of you who bother to read this may ask "Why aren't they both getting warnings then, if it's gotten this bad?" This is because, contrary to what some of you were afraid of when I showed up, I am not, in fact, heavy-handed by nature. I'd rather fire a warning shot than start handing out punishments. This is just such a thing. I want the bickering, the baiting and the frank stupidity to stop. Now. I'm prepared to act if this goes any further elsewhere, so don't think I've got a short memory or an infinite amount of temper. I have neither.
I hate to sound snarly or sharp, but here it is. There comes a point when the drama starts negatively impacting users, and that point has already come and passed. If it were just me, with no one else to speak to for accountability, there would have been firmer repercussions long since, but as I seem to be the one laying down most of the law around here lately, the last thing I want to do is come across like a tyrant, especially in light of prior mistakes I made when I first began wielding a big stick. And no, that's not a dig at my fellow staff members either; I took this job on willingly and I don't mind doing it. But please, for the love of all that's good, quit the drama.
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