The trickiest part is figuring out how you should handle habitual line-testers.
Originally Posted by elborak
I'd go back to my approach to dealing with children. They know they're testing the line, I know it - but if I try to be 100% perfectly fair, I end up exhausted as they dance back and forth across the line.
Too much work for a mod. Fuck it - if 2Dogs thinks you're a 'habitual line tester', then he visibly, immediately, consistently hits them with the penalty. Yeah, maybe 5% of the time, he might frag an 'innocent'. But 95% of the time, he'll be right, we'll know it, the poster will know it, and it will be well-deserved. I can live with those odds.
What this does - it makes it easy on the mod, and frees them up from this chore because every reasonable poster will stay away from the line - and those that don't are 95% likely to be 'habitual line-testers'.
Someone like that is risking losing the mod altogether, which is a loss for everyone. It's not worth it.
Guys can't control themselves - then I'd say 2Dogs has a rep as pretty damn reasonable; we all live with his judgment, and behave. The alternative is the place just keeps getting worse and worse.