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

[SinisterJoints]

Erm... I guess the right way to say it is: "Ignore". But yeah, you can ignore anyone and all his text will be hidden by default.

do explain how

[HyoMinPark]

Erm... I guess the right way to say it is: "Ignore". But yeah, you can ignore anyone and all his text will be hidden by default.

This would be far more effective if it actually hid the posts of people you placed on your ignore list. Instead you get a nice box that says "This post is hidden because X is on your ignore list--SHOW POST".


That being said, I am surprised at the types of people who get permabanned (and what got them banned), yet there are others here that I have seen be continual trouble-makers that go unpunished: cause drama in threads, derail them intentionally, ad hominem like it's going out of style, and are just flat out hostile for zero reason. Too much inconsistency in rule enforcement.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

This would be far more effective if it actually hid the posts of people you placed on your ignore list. Instead you get a nice box that says "This post is hidden because X is on your ignore list--SHOW POST".


That being said, I am surprised at the types of people who get permabanned (and what got them banned), yet there are others here that I have seen be continual trouble-makers that go unpunished: cause drama in threads, derail them intentionally, ad hominem like it's going out of style, and are just flat out hostile for zero reason. Too much inconsistency in rule enforcement.

I think they have to be reported. A lot of the bans are handed out because the troublemakers report, but the regulars don't, because they don't really care about getting someone banned. I would only ever report someone for discrimination or harassment, maybe some heavy insults. Normal insults and the like aren't worth getting up in arms about to me.

[HyoMinPark]

I think they have to be reported. A lot of the bans are handed out because the troublemakers report, but the regulars don't, because they don't really care about getting someone banned. I would only ever report someone for discrimination or harassment, maybe some heavy insults. Normal insults and the like aren't worth getting up in arms about to me.

I know of one of these types posts that was reported by quite a few people (myself included) that still stands to this day. I rarely ever bother to use the report function, even when people are being directly hostile towards me, but the one that was reported was just completely uncalled for, and was taking away from the original intention of an innocent thread in a crudsade to start drama over something entirely unrelated to it.

[Skivvy]

Something that's almost hilariously hypocritical is that many have been banned for using the same language used by NPCs IN THE GAME.

While I agree that SE's forum mod team can suspend for rather tame words, I wouldn't say this argument really holds much water. The game also includes murder of many people, mindless slaughtering of fauna, prostitution, etc - I don't think anyone is ready to say that these things should be acceptable in the real world since we do it in game.

But yeah, as Jojoya stated above, this is SE's forum, they get to set the rules. Since we all choose to post here, that is our acceptance to play by their rules.

Also, GenoReaper - I'm pretty sure I know the poster/comments you're referring to, and he was absolutely unreal, but yeah, unfortunately the comment crossed the line (deserved or not).