I know several players who have been banned from the OF, two of whom were banned over nonsense. One of these players recently contested their ban via the new system and has been getting nowhere with it.

They were told initially they would receive a response within 48 hours. It's been almost a week. As far as I know there has been no response still. While this is unprofessional I suppose it's still preferable to no system at all. I digress.

Access to these forums is valuable to me. I want to be able to share my views in a place where there might be even a hint of them reaching the devs in some form or another but I also want to be able to offer help and guidance to new players and help steer them clear of the wealth of misinformation that is spread all across this place.

I do not want to wake up one day and find out I’ve been banned for no apparent reason.

I understand the GMs can't address any specific cases in such a public manner but I am requesting some sort of guideline around which I can monitor my own posting. The little rules post in each section is of no help. I have had people literally directly insult me and either recieve a temp ban or no ban at all despite being reported by multiple other users and yet I know of one person who posted the tiniest snippet off of their own fflogs page and captioned it with “Holy OP xD” and was permanently banned almost immediately.

Please, can anyone explain how calling someone stupid or mean or toxic is okay but a cropped screenshot is apparently going to bring down the sky? I just don't understand.

As of right now I have lost all faith and understanding in how these forums are moderated and as someome who is paying for access to this game which includes access to these forums I feel like that should matter to the moderation staff.

My sub pays your bills, I want someone to be able to articulate to me the criteria a post or user must meet in order for the decision to be made to remove their access to what is essentially part of their subscription.

Yes, I did post in the other “elephant in the room” thread and quoted a GM to ask this question. I have yet to recieve an answer, I hoped making my own thread might garner further attention. If you’d like to read that post or thread it's linked below

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4736146


Also I have seen people say that likes on a post can help get it seen by the GM team. I've done what I can with the title to alert them to my desire for contact but if you are also curious as to what makes a post or user ban-worthy I encourage you to like this post so that we might get a real answer. Thanks! \o/