He had been suspended in the past and when he did it I believe he was on probation. It wasn't just once, it was the case of the straw that broke the camels back, except in this case it was a sack of potatoes.Spirultima said:
To the moderators of the Escapist:
- Thread starter scotth266
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This thread is one of the reasons why I like the Escapist. If this was Gfaqs, it would be like:
Me: "This wasn't entirely fair...don't ya think?"
Moderator: "No."
Me: "But.... *400 character appeal*"
Moderator: "No. By the way, you have just lost your ability to appeal moderations. To avoid problems like this in the future, please never use this function again."
Me: *mmmpmh! mmpmmhmh! =X*
Escapist >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>gfaqs
Me: "This wasn't entirely fair...don't ya think?"
Moderator: "No."
Me: "But.... *400 character appeal*"
Moderator: "No. By the way, you have just lost your ability to appeal moderations. To avoid problems like this in the future, please never use this function again."
Me: *mmmpmh! mmpmmhmh! =X*
Escapist >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>gfaqs
Yeah, some of the mods must be taking night courses from the mods over at gamefaqs. They put a guy on probation for simply saying 1st, quoting an Unskippable quote, and saying good job, in the new Unskippable Haze section. That just seems stupid.
Against forum guidelines. It's quite simple how this works. You follow the guidelines they give you when you sign up, and they send you a message with a link to them and the message tells you to read them so you can't say you were never told. If you follow the guidelines your fine, it's not like they're unreasonable, you could sum most of them up as, "don't be a douche"devildog1170 said:
More than slightly controversial. You have missed out on some...unpleasant conversations.The infamous SCAMola said:
Would have been a lot more unpleasant if I had taken his obvious bait and played into his hand, continuing to argue with him over his denial of basic facts along with plenty of highly offensive statements.
I would say that's a pretty good, hell, perfect summary of the guy. Thank you.mshcherbatskaya said:
EDIT: Didn't realize no one posted after me or I would have edited and not double posted. Sorry, I'm tired.
Wait, why does he say "I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did"? He's not gone, he's just been suspended for 90 days.ElephantGuts said:
Anyway, you're right, the guy was an extreme anti-semite, islamophobe, sexist, homophobe, hypocrite and the like, but I think (at least in my opinion) it was a case of his beliefs being so outrageous that you were more likely to be amused by them rather than actually be offended.
Then again, I don't know what exchange of words took place between you two, so maybe I'm wrong.
I find this thread to be very helpful. As I've said before, I trust the mods and from personal experience they only punish those who deserve it.
However if I can't see all of what is going on its, bad, doublely so when the person being punished is one I respect.
So let's see if I have this right.
Darth Mobius: He at first receved a three day punishment from a mod. Then after staff review he was banned because they decided he would continue to act in a disruptive way.
Necro: (Not sure about this) He after coming off a 7 day ban for personal attacks, made a thread ranting toward low-content threads. In a case of very poor luck a staff member was the first person to see this thread and Banned him. This was reviewed later and the ban was upheld.
Am I right so far?
However if I can't see all of what is going on its, bad, doublely so when the person being punished is one I respect.
So let's see if I have this right.
Darth Mobius: He at first receved a three day punishment from a mod. Then after staff review he was banned because they decided he would continue to act in a disruptive way.
Necro: (Not sure about this) He after coming off a 7 day ban for personal attacks, made a thread ranting toward low-content threads. In a case of very poor luck a staff member was the first person to see this thread and Banned him. This was reviewed later and the ban was upheld.
Am I right so far?
NecroSwanson got banned?... :*( He was so funny.
*sigh* sometimes it does seem that the modding can be a bit hard around here, but I know, I know straw N camel etc etc. *sigh*
I just hope we can all get along
*sigh* sometimes it does seem that the modding can be a bit hard around here, but I know, I know straw N camel etc etc. *sigh*
I just hope we can all get along
Seconded. You guys help us slough off the shit that so infects the rest of the 'net, and I thank you for that. I so want to bake a cake and send it to you guys now.Cheeze_Pavilion said:
And a note: Cheeze, I never got all the hate against you. You always struck me as a perfectly rational fellow. I've seen you get a little huffy, but not nearly as much or as bad as some other members of this forum.
Maybe it's just cause a popular member of the forum had something against you that people started getting these ideas about 'cha.
It was more of what he tried to do (troll me) and to what disgusting lengths he would go to do so. I am comforted by the fact that he never got to me and I like to think I gave him a hard time.The infamous SCAMola said:
And it's a shame he's only been suspended for a mere 90 days. I'm sure it won't be too long until he's kicked back off though. Hopefully for good.
I agree with most of the bans the mod's have done (well of people that I know more on here), Necro's ban was deserved after that last post I think, I don't know about Mobius since I've not been in a conversation with him etc.
But people that say 1st! when the vid just goes up annoys me and deserves prob'd, that's my opinion though and trolls obv >.> which the mod's do a good job of stomping out
But people that say 1st! when the vid just goes up annoys me and deserves prob'd, that's my opinion though and trolls obv >.> which the mod's do a good job of stomping out
This is not true. If you like I will post a link demonstating someone being perma banned for a first time offensive.CantFaketheFunk said:
If the offense is grave enough, yes, we'll permaban on the first date. But more than likely the case in question is a ban jumper.Tehpwnsauce said:
Hmmm, this is actually the first that I'd heard about Empyrean, Mobius and The Necroswanson getting themselves banned. I guess it shows how much time I've been spending on the forum lately, I don't recognize half of you anymore...
Oh well, I can't really say anything about bans without coming across as a self-righteous moralizing jerk.
Oh well, I can't really say anything about bans without coming across as a self-righteous moralizing jerk.
If this is the case then CantFaketheFunk needs to be clearer in his posts as that is not what he has said.Susan Arendt said:
Don't mind me. I'm just thinking out loud.
Moderation rules here don't appear to be any different from the forums I moderate elsewhere. There's plenty going on behind the scenes that people aren't aware of and - to be perfectly blunt - it's not generally considered to be good form to discuss the finer details of why somebody got their ass handed to them, regardless of whether you agree or not.
Put simply, being a longtime community member doesn't exempt you from the rules; if anything, it makes you more susceptible to them because you should know better. New people are more likely to be given some leeway because they don't know better.
Like I said, though, I'm just thinking out loud here.
Moderation rules here don't appear to be any different from the forums I moderate elsewhere. There's plenty going on behind the scenes that people aren't aware of and - to be perfectly blunt - it's not generally considered to be good form to discuss the finer details of why somebody got their ass handed to them, regardless of whether you agree or not.
Put simply, being a longtime community member doesn't exempt you from the rules; if anything, it makes you more susceptible to them because you should know better. New people are more likely to be given some leeway because they don't know better.
Like I said, though, I'm just thinking out loud here.