Topic bans and taunts

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So what's the penalty?

It depends. On whether they knew there was such a ban, on whether they've done it on purpose, and on whether they've done it before.

But the first and most immediate "penalty" is a penalty on all the rest of us, which is that I will have a much harder time feeling justified in banning someone for talking about something they were told not to if someone else was baiting that person into it. Because I'm not going to let theRPGsite turn into that sort of place.

So baiting someone into violating their topic ban is very likely to have the exact opposite effect of what you'd want it to do. Presumably, you'd bait because you want the guy to end up talking about his forbidden subject and end up being banned. But here, if you bait, what will likely end up happening is that the person in question will get to say a couple of things about said subject and go off scott-free, and it'll be YOU I'll be seriously pissed off at.

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