Cool more silent removal

[Crushnight]

I made a post in the gifs thread, it got removed overnight, i have no idea what was wrong with it, i don't know how to avoid such a takedown in the future, so it might become a repeatable thing. I can only guess what it was that was inappropriate enough to warrant being taking down so can we just have more transparency with the mods in regards to stuff like removal and bans(thankfully this didn't happen) so it can be avoided in the future i'd rather not tread on thin ice not knowing where to go thank you very much.

[SenorPatty]

Was it the otter pic? Cuz if it was, apparently that's a big no no for the mods.

You might wanna avoid doing it again. They won't come down here and explain things but I guarantee you next time, they'll swing that banhammer (from the forums, not the game).

[LaylaTsarra]

At the very least they should comment to the OP with an email as to why the thread was removed. It's hard to not make mistakes about what is acceptable if they don't even say why.

[Theodric]

At this point what we need is a complete revamp of the site as a whole, including moderation policies and moderator engagement. I'd like to see the community representatives engage more with the community here. We're not a terrible lot, really - yet the bulk of their time is spent on Twitter and Facebook. Ironically, a quick look at the comments in reply to posts over on those two sites will show that the moderation isn't as intensive over there and that the comments made are often far nastier than any you find over here.

[Zarabeth]

You can find the rules for the forum here. Hopefully this will help you with whatever went wrong.

[Crushnight]

Was it the otter pic? Cuz if it was, apparently that's a big no no for the mods.

You might wanna avoid doing it again. They won't come down here and explain things but I guarantee you next time, they'll swing that banhammer (from the forums, not the game).

Nah no otters i learned from #ottergate

At the very least they should comment to the OP with an email as to why the thread was removed. It's hard to not make mistakes about what is acceptable if they don't even say why.

Just something, anything to inform me what about it was wrong so i can avoid in future, i'd like to not cause more trouble than possible but it is impossible to change behavior when you have no clue what is wrong.

It was just a post not a thread but same principle i can't improve if i don't know what i done wrong, silence doesn't help anyone.

You can find the rules for the forum here. Hopefully this will help you with whatever went wrong.

if it was something not related to FFXIV then 1/6 of the post would qualify,
if it was something inappropriate that could relate to so many posts within that gifs thread not just my own,
if it was something offensive i cannot imagine what part that would be related to, the closest anything got was a dancing fat man which if classed as offensive hope mods never go to a beach, but that also has horrible implications of body shaming.

[Vidu]

if it was something not related to FFXIV then 1/6 of the post would qualify,
if it was something inappropriate that could relate to so many posts within that gifs thread not just my own,
if it was something offensive i cannot imagine what part that would be related to, the closest anything got was a dancing fat man which if classed as offensive hope mods never go to a beach, but that also has horrible implications of body shaming.

Specially in regards to the first thing: While 1/6 posts would (probably) qualify you'd also need someone to report those posts since the mods dont really "patrol" all threads and posts made (at least not to my knowledge... that would also seem a little insane...) - so sometimes you can get away with breaking the rules as long as no other poster cares and reports you over it. But if someone does... well, they gotta stick to their rules after all. Even if whatever you did seems trivial or you see someone else doing the excat same thing in a different thread without it being taken down it doesnt mean that your rule-violation is okay. The other guy might just be luckier and didnt get reported over it.

I do agree though that they should tell you which rule you violated.

[SturmChurro]

Was it the otter pic? Cuz if it was, apparently that's a big no no for the mods.

You might wanna avoid doing it again. They won't come down here and explain things but I guarantee you next time, they'll swing that banhammer (from the forums, not the game).

Otters are the equivalent to the antichrist.

At the very least they should comment to the OP with an email as to why the thread was removed. It's hard to not make mistakes about what is acceptable if they don't even say why.

That's a lot of work.

At this point what we need is a complete revamp of the site as a whole, including moderation policies and moderator engagement. I'd like to see the community representatives engage more with the community here. We're not a terrible lot, really - yet the bulk of their time is spent on Twitter and Facebook. Ironically, a quick look at the comments in reply to posts over on those two sites will show that the moderation isn't as intensive over there and that the comments made are often far nastier than any you find over here.

You don't live on twitter? Hah! I bet you don't have your blue checkmark!

You can find the rules for the forum here. Hopefully this will help you with whatever went wrong.

Don't worry! It won't!

Specially in regards to the first thing: While 1/6 posts would (probably) qualify you'd also need someone to report those posts since the mods dont really "patrol" all threads and posts made (at least not to my knowledge... that would also seem a little insane...) - so sometimes you can get away with breaking the rules as long as no other poster cares and reports you over it. But if someone does... well, they gotta stick to their rules after all. Even if whatever you did seems trivial or you see someone else doing the excat same thing in a different thread without it being taken down it doesnt mean that your rule-violation is okay. The other guy might just be luckier and didnt get reported over it.

I do agree though that they should tell you which rule you violated.

No.. you can report, and they won't do anything sometimes (even if it is breaking the ToS above).

[Vidu]

No.. you can report, and they won't do anything sometimes (even if it is breaking the ToS above).

My point was more that if no one reports you, nothing is gonna happen for sure - which is probably the case that most posts that could be considered a violation of the ToS are still up. Obviously they could still decided against taking a post down if they consider it not offensive/violating "enough", but the most likely reason I always assume that no one bothered reporting this thing because it really didnt seem worth the effort.

[Theodric]

You don't live on twitter? Hah! I bet you don't have your blue checkmark!

Due to my job, I'd likely qualify for one - but then I don't want to tie my online activity to my real name.