Suspended for Otter Nonsense

[SturmChurro]

I was over my cousins house when he got perm off these forums I go over there a lot even to post sometimes.
he showed me the emails he got and I laughed cause a lot of the stuff he was temp banned for people say today and still are posting.

He tried to get the ban overturned and explained people post the same stuff now then they replied they don't need to give a reason.

Problem was someone he reported because he said he was going to report them for something started to revenge report when they returned.
going through Post history even got him for a post a GM told him to get help on forums in beta then 3 years later was temp banned for that post instead of the forums GM to remove the topic after the help.

Then he got banned for small things that didn't even seem right till the perm.

cousin doesn't care anymore advice he told me not to post who you are reporting or say anything if it seems like a form of a attack but isn't don't post it people will revenge by chat history.

eventually the forums will croak leaving only leaving everyone who agree's with everything you say that really seems boring.

if you cannot debate things I say and nobody has a difference of opinion than why even have a forums at all perm only gets rid of the other side of the chat table and once all of them are gone consider this the allakzham forums that's why FFXIAH forums got so popular

then you have all the same faces posting the same stuff everyday then once that happens i'll fully move to reddit.

I have come to the conclusion that if you are going to post anything negative it needs to have specific wording, be directed broadly (as to not be considered a personal "insult", "discrimination", "slander", "libel", "harrassment"). Never actually address the user in your post, address the argument or statement. God forbid, if you accidentally use a swear word - you are done. I'd say you pretty much have to have a lawyer look over your posts, because something somewhere, if reported, could probably be deemed a "violation" of the ToS.

It would certainly skew the reports and punishments towards (hypothetical) "unreasonable people" taking offence to and reporting over minor issues, while more tolerant "reasonable people" might let things slide that really could/should be moderated - instead responding directly to the arguments in the discussion.

I think this is exactly what is happening. I think certain users are reporting over absolute nonsense with hyperbolic reports, while many other users are not reporting at all for things that could be equally "worthy" of a ban. I get the feeling the moderators are stepping in and banning specifically for reports.

Considering my case, and what I was banned for, I highly suspect the user I was responding to reported me for those exact reasons and got me banned. It was too much of a coincidence to be banned for something so ridiculous, and NOT have it be a weaponized report - over something so stupid, in my opinion. If anyone actually believes the post I was banned for equals what I supposedly "broke the ToS", even under review, Lord have mercy.