Can we talk about the elephant in the room - Permanent Bans from the Official Forums

[Rockette]

I agree there should be some sort of appeal process if you were banned for something dumb or banned a looooong time ago but lets not pretend anything deep and meaningful is going down on reddit lol

Yes, I could also cherry pick asinine and casual topics from reddit alongside Stat weight discussions, raid discussions, dps advice and guides, basically all the raider stuff that isn't discussed here.

Saying there isn't anything worthwhile on reddit is blissfully dense. Where would you go for a basic guide on a class you wanted to learn. Here? Please. The best options are reddit and a certain discord which you can find via... Reddit.

Trust me, if I want to discuss glamour options for Kurenai, complain about choco racing and parsers, I know where to come.

I agree there absolutely needs to be some sort of appeal option for forum bans. The English community team just seems so trigger happy to hand out permanent bans instead of any sort of communication with players.

It just bothers me so much when Yoshi and the team ask for raid/class feedback from the community when they probably are not aware of how many raiders and long term players are banned

[Rokke]

Yes, I could also cherry pick asinine and casual topics from reddit alongside Stat weight discussions, raid discussions, dps advice and guides, basically all the raider stuff that isn't discussed here.

Saying there isn't anything worthwhile on reddit is blissfully dense. Where would you go for a basic guide on a class you wanted to learn. Here? Please. The best options are reddit and a certain discord which you can find via... Reddit.

I didn't say there wasn't anything worthwhile on reddit, I said its mostly fluff. Because it is. I post on r/ffxiv regularly. Open a tab with it right now: commissions, houseposting, interviews/translated interviews, screenshots, memes, fashion report & the weekly rage thread. Sans the rage thread, thats how it looks almost every day ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Rockette]

I didn't say there wasn't anything worthwhile on reddit, I said its mostly fluff. Because it is. I post on r/ffxiv regularly. Open a tab with it right now: commissions, houseposting, interviews/translated interviews, screenshots, memes, fashion report & the weekly rage thread. Sans the rage thread, thats how it looks almost every day ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You quite literally said "let's not pretend theres anything deep and meaningful on reddit. I quoted it for you in my last post.

[Rokke]

You quite literally said "let's not pretend theres anything deep and meaningful on reddit. I quoted it for you in my last post.

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[Rockette]

Where did I say there isn't fluff on reddit? Quote me, please. Let's see it. I'll wait. Keep posting irrelevant screenshots lmao.

Also what is your purpose in arguing with no one that there is fluff on reddit in regards to this thread being about historical bans?

[Rokke]

Where did I say there isn't fluff on reddit? Quote me, please. Let's see it. I'll wait. Keep posting irrelevant screenshots lmao.

Also what is your purpose in arguing with no one that there is fluff on reddit in regards to this thread being about historical bans?

You seemed to get upset that I pointed out that reddit isn’t quite as deep as you implied. My point was that the bulk of the posts on reddit are not about raids or balancing or even varied- its mostly predictable fluff. The bulk of redditors do not raid. You’ll find it pretty similar here, because the bulk of posters here do not raid. Shallow topics are the norm pretty much everywhere because outside of the balance discord xiv discussions don't really get into the fun nitty gritties.

As I said before, I agree that there should be an appeal process of sorts, assuming one wasn't banned for something more serious. Cheers.

[Rockette]

You seemed to get upset that I pointed out that reddit isn’t quite as deep as you implied. My point was that the bulk of the posts on reddit are not about raids or balancing or even varied- its mostly predictable fluff. The bulk of redditors do not raid. You’ll find it pretty similar here, because the bulk of posters here do not raid. Shallow topics are the norm pretty much everywhere because outside of the balance discord xiv discussions don't really get into the fun nitty gritties.

As I said before, I agree that there should be an appeal process of sorts, assuming one wasn't banned for something more serious. Cheers.

I'm not upset about anything. I'm pointing out your backpeddling (reddit is all fluff, no it isn't I didn't say that, but reddit is all fluff) and your aversion to keep on topic in regards to something you actually agree with.