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

[Rogatum]

While not a popular opinion, I have always been of the mindset forums should not ban players outside of extreme cases. Just leads to an echo chamber being created and defeats the purpose of having a forum. In my eyes.

[Rockette]

While not a popular opinion, I have always been of the mindset forums should not ban players outside of extreme cases. Just leads to an echo chamber being created and defeats the purpose of having a forum. In my eyes.

I actually agree with this but many won't. SE does have to uphold a reputation after all. Unfortunately the one that this forum already has is pretty bad.

[Kazrah]

SE does have to uphold a reputation after all.

Yeah, um....nah, too easy.

Worst for me was a forum sig referencing the director of FFXV describing a particular term he coined to describe a major obstacle he felt that his team faced. Definitely worth reading about.

[Tiraelina]

People need to be mature enough to filter their own content. I mean, block people that annoy you and move on with your life. Moderation should only be there for extreme stuff.

Anyway, from my own experience all this stuff is usually twisted for personal/petty wars. "I don't like you and I going to wait for any mistake to get yourself ban" is something very common.

It's practically the opposite of maturity expecting everyone else to filter them out. It's the same idea with the mature language filter in most games, it's not an excuse to be a sailor. If you don't want to use tact, don't be surprised at the results. This isn't a new concept, much like feigning innocence.

[SaitoHikari]

While not a popular opinion, I have always been of the mindset forums should not ban players outside of extreme cases. Just leads to an echo chamber being created and defeats the purpose of having a forum. In my eyes.

To play devil's advocate, I was a moderator for the official forums for a different MMO, and the moderation was too lax to the point where the forums became a cesspool of trolling. Although that had more to do with the community itself (lots of little edgelords, like jeez), and the moderators could only remove posts and handle other general duties such as changing thread titles/moving threads to different sections. Only actual game staff could ban people from the forums, and only if one of us recommended it with an explanation as to why. Not to mention that 90% of people who actually got banned usually just made alt accounts practically proudly announcing that they've circumventing the ban. Of course, the last isn't an issue at this forum since there's pretty much a paywall to post here.

Also, fun fact: 2/4 of the moderators from said MMO got banned from -this- forum. Of the four, I'm the only active participant, the last doesn't post at all due to this forum's reputation. One thing I've noted is that a significant number of the bans that I've observed hitting other people here only makes sense without proper context.