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

[Rockette]

It's become a meme elsewhere in FFXIV communities, how many long term players are permanently banned from these forums.

When the game first started up and people were finding their way around the forums, the amount of permanent bans for the smallest misstep was crazy. I know people who got banned for offering to help a player transfer servers for a raid group. People in beta who got banned for grumbling that the frequent maintenance we used to have in 2.0 was seriously impacting being able to play.

There are literally thousands of players permanently banned from these forums. It got bought up again recently on reddit in discussion about Ultimate raiding. Those who really wanted to voice an opinion to SE about it can't.

Here is a small recnt thread on reddit discussing it:

Here's another

One example of permanent bannings:


There are players that got banned back in Beta for the weirdest things that have never been allowed back here. Hence why the reddit community in particular is so large with a broader range of topics and opinions.

To be clear: I'm not protesting the rules of the forums nor am I stating that all bans were undeserved. But I think some of these mass historical bans need to be addressed.