Quote Originally Posted by Swordsman View Post
That kind of makes me wonder what Theodric said that got him banned. He never struck me as the type that was very toxic towards other forum members. His ban seemed to me like pure retaliation from someone at SE, as if his criticism of the game and the company was truly striking a nerve of someone high up on SE's totem pole.
Idk, it kind of reeked to me like some user from the forum itself got elevated to a moderating or community position where they have access to the tools, and then Theo had a bad day where he got a little more snippy than he otherwise is, offering a pointed retort when directly insulted by someone else, and that was used as an excuse for a temp ban. Which was then elevated to a permanent one, after the temp one was never rescinded, even after its expiry date. There was a few days or maybe a week or so where he was supposed to be able to post again, but wasn't allowed to, in spite of his ban expiring and the permaban hadn't been given yet. Ban limbo.

I still don't understand why, fully, but the rules on this forum are arbitrary enough that pretty much everyone discussing this could be banned. I've probably got a stack of bannable posts from a few years back when stuff got super heated in Lore.

The optics were terrible at the time, because he was sharing screen caps of the Encyclopedia Eorzea 3 which had/has some stuff that does put a more negative light on Hydaelyn and her actions, and all of those posts got deleted at the same time, along with all posts quoting or referencing them. I don't think it was in this thread, and I can't remember which one it was in.

It was a bit absurd, as they weren't even related to the post he got in trouble for, either. At least as far as I recall.