what good would that do?

The more mods reveal about evidence and the way people get blocked, the easier it is to avoid the mod tools and cheat.
So that's one problem mods have.

The other is privacy, what happens between person A and person B is of no concern for person C. You could argue that if the blocked person wants it to become public, you make the discussion public. But I think evidence should remain secret.

As for the mod spots per family, or disabling mod features for galaxies the mod is in is hard to do. The interface is not account connected, so it doesn't know where someone is. Not to mention that sometimes it simply is needed to mod your own galaxy, as noone else is available or able to do it.
Creating an extra spot for mods seems overkill, and completely abundant. I don't see the problem with mods playing together, as long as they stay away from their family in the interface.

that's against the rules!

i think we should disqualify him, zarf.

And I still stand by that.
I have no clue why on earth they deleted the empires right away, it makes no sense to me.
But again, that does not mean it wasn't just to ban you.

the politics forum has a disclaimer about that.
also, that's up for the mods to decide, not you and me.

And MJ
There is a rule that mods do not mod cases which affect themselves, unless it is an emergency. I do not know if, and if so, why this was neglected. That rule is there to avoid conflicting interests.

As for the retrial thing. No, you can't be punished for something you've been punished before. But punishment of the new thing can be more severe because of previous punishment (three strike system in the US for example).

Calm down people.
Although I agree that the approach used by the mods may not have been the best one (as in, deleting him right away), but we can all agree that Hardcore4Ever had this coming for a long time now. I am not a 100% sure what went on exactly, I heard different stories from the mods and from H4E, so I am not going to judge.
If you have a record of purposely ruining people's round, driving people away from the game and harrassing other players for years, you should not be surprised that at one point it won't be tollerated anymore.

Again, I'm not sure the mods took the right approach in instant deletion, but I suspect whatever he did was the straw that broke the camels back.

As for mods being a group of friends, well, I'm not sure friends is the right word, but they get along well. And this is logical. Modding is largely group work, you devide tasks, you discus situations and act accordingly. If you completely do not get along with another mod, this cuts into the cooperation, and kills the mod team.

I kind of agree with the two mods playing together rule, but there are three problems. First of all, what if one mod randoms in with another? Does he have to delete? What if he has no delete left? Second, what if someone gets modded mid-round? Does he have to delete from a family he's in, just because he's in a fam with a mod? And my biggest problem with this rule is: As stated before, the mods are a group of friends/get on well with eachother. Are you really going to disallow mods to play with people they get along with well? The mods do not get paid, they invest a lot of time in running this show, and then you go out and ruin the game for them? That doesn't seem fair either.

did you just forget to predict who's next?

i bet worny wouldnt do that

i think zarf doesnt want to play anymore!

like this?

i think i've done my part shaddy

omg shad killed the thread

damn you shad!

two things

1) Scorp, stfu, stop talking in forums and play IC in stead.

2) Hydro, 08 only attacked 10 after 10 attacked us. If you don't want to get attacked by other fams during a war, don't attack other fams during a war.