Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-20015702-20140109184520/@comment-1986314-20140120143325

SpyroSonic2000 wrote: Kicking is warning.

What should probably be done is say why they're being kicked first and/or just do a verbal warning first time a user does something instead of doing kicking first. An exception would obviously be is if they are clearly just there to troll.

I'm not sure if my argument is valid, but, a kick can have an differing psychological effect based on what the reason behind the kick. Kicking someone over a single swear word? This could generate two results of feelings from the victim; confusion and anger.

While kicking someone may seem quick and would save time of giving a warning, bear in mind that we do not have a feature to automatically display the reason behind initiating a kick, like the banning tool does. Does this imply that you should give a reason for kicking someone before or after the user has just committed an offense for the first time? Certainly not. If it were the user deliberately committing the offense a second time (after being warned over the first instance), then I would not object to a kick.

I understand that everyone has their own interpretation of the rules, but kicking someone over swearing once is not exactly hospitable. We want users to feel welcome here.