Originally posted by IdRatherFlyFish
I think it's funny that folks get banned in the first place. I mean really, folks who consider themselves adults should have enough common sense to know what type of postings are going to bring down the ban hammer.
I think it's funny that you have issues with reading comprehension:
Originally posted by jdbolick
Improper Application - I just came off of a ban for b7 (General trolling of a single user), which hasn't existed in the forum rules for quite some time now, as b7 refers to sexual harassment. Apparently many other users have suffered the same fate, so if the people who run this game can't even be bothered to update the ban system to eliminate offenses that no longer exist, then why are we being banned at all? Meanwhile there have been many occasions of people being banned for things that aren't listed anywhere in the rules at all (discussing forum bans, posting ASCII, quoting yourself (supposedly considered spam), making a thread with just a smiley in the opening post (supposedly considered a blank post even though the rules make it clear that a post with a smiley is not blank), pointing out that someone cheated, etc). In many cases moderators have even admitted that they don't know what is and what isn't in the rules because none of them were ever trained on what the rules entail or how they should be enforced.
Originally posted by
I find it also ironic that the folks in this thread that are complaining the most/loudest about the way the forums are moderated, are folks who have been banned; multiple times in most cases.
Uhm ... that's the opposite of ironic. It makes perfect sense that those most frequently subject to moderation would be most sensitive to its flaws. Someone who has never been banned complaining about moderation would be ironic.
