Quote Originally Posted by Sigma-Astra View Post
Once you clicked that little button that says you've agreed to the ToS, you've essentially thrown out your rights to complain against it. The OP feels that they deserve a "free day of play" as a paying customer because of 24 hour maintenance and while SE has sometimes reimbursed us for such things when it was an emergency, they will not over scheduled content updates. There's never been a history of such a thing. That is the principle of the matter. You may not like it, but that portion of the ToS was explicitly designed to counter people like the OP.
You throw out a right to legal recourse. That's why these agreements exist - not to restrict discussions about a given policy's fairness or properness on the forums. If the OP was suggesting that we sue SE, or that there's a legal case against them, I'd agree with you wholeheartedly. They aren't. They're venting on a social platform about something they feel isn't a just practice. That's fine and dandy, and an entirely independent argument from the ToS.

That's why the appropriate response is to argue on the same grounds: principles / a sense of fairness. Even on those grounds, you'll know that I disagree with the OP. But discussion on those grounds is far more likely to be productive.