[Discussion]Repeals of Custom Titles?

[Coyote]

An anonymous constitiuent has asked me to bring this question to the floor--

Are there any guidelines for when "on probation" or custom titles users will lose their derigatory custom titles or other punishments?
Obviously, they'll always be on a shorter leash in case of future offences, but in the case of users who have shown improvement (IF not anything immensely drastic, but enough to show sincere attempts at reformation and improved behaviour), when is the rough "time-limit" after which they can petition for their custom title, av loss, sig limits, or other punishments to be revoked?

--while we've had off-and-on discussions about this in the past and typically it ends up being a case-by-case basis type of review. If a cutom-titled person feels that they have improved their behaviour and it has not really been noticed, do they have recourse to petition for the revocation of their restrictions?

[Ghost Rider]

Honestly has always been a dictate of whether the person in question in the eyes of the moderators deserve a repeal. And if you want an explaination of why so few are repealed? Because of former idiots and the fact most of those titled tend to revert to ways that earned them the title in the first place. Especially on subjects that specfically got them the title.

Whole reason we have temporary titles, because those people we feel do learn and this was a lapse of judgement.

[CmdrWilkens]

We've repealed a custom title by vote here once so certainly if someone feels, and they have evidence to support, a honest change of direction they could either petition one of the Admins or mods or alternatively present their case to the Senate. I don't think there is or should be a formal or paticular way to go about doing so. Petitioning the Mod/Admin staff has the benifit of privacy for a user who may have flown under the radar in an attempt to rehabilitate an image and seeks to keep the privacy until and unless their title is revoked. The Senate option MAY get faster response but brings the whole mess back out into public. So basically I think if a user with a negative custom title feels they have demonstrated true and sufficient cause to have it removed then they need to go the route which they find best because any way you look at it the Mod/Admin staff is going to review it.

As already noted, though, I don't think it too likely we are all to be in that forgiving of a mood without overwhelming evidence.

[The Duchess of Zeon]

I'd think that a related aspect is that one potential minor punishment is reverting a person's positive custom title down to the standard rank for a poster with that many posts. This could be a very minor punishment handed out in some limited circumstances where it seems that nothing else is warranted.

[The Yosemite Bear]

I mean Shep, Superman, and others have had thier's reversed...

[LadyTevar]

The main point is that all those who had their titles removed had improved themselves on this board.