padib said:
I get that, it's just that it makes it excessively difficult for me to be critical without being afraid of getting banned. I could write that second paragraph, but to me it was important to go a bit on the stronger words in order to drive my point home. To add insult to injury, I was told not long ago that controversial opinions are welcome, and people have been getting away with much worse, calling peoples' posts laughable (as an example, and no this is not a request to get anyone banned, it's just the best example I have on hand) in the name of open debate.
Then when I put into question the intelligence and integrity of the community as a whole, as a group, I get faced with the law. It just seems to me like I get so many people upset with my criticisms that, even if I'm in the grey, I get banned for it because I get reported like mad (it's how I understand it, I could be horribly wrong). I just hope that is not the case because it would be a mistake on the part of the staff.
I go full kamikaze sometimes because I think it's important for me to be real with everyone here, so they see clearly what is happening. I do my best to say things without insulting anyone while being as true as possible to my original meaning.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't want to compromise my point of view. It will be difficult for me to be honest and nice when I disagree with how the community is behaving. In other words it is exceedingly difficult for me to be critical of the community, to keep my idea in its integrity all the while posting kindly.
I'm not sure I know how to do that.
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I can't speak for the Mod team because I am of course not part of it. But if you take into account the fact that the Mod Team is comprised of differernt people that, as people, have their own interpretation of the rules that may most of the time coincide, but still allow room for different outlooks, well, they may find some things within and outside the rules of what is appropriate and what isn't, individually.
Maybe at this hour X mod took a situation and he thought it wasn't that bad, and then at this other hour there is this other mod that does see something out of bounds in the same post. I understand that mods contact each other over some posts and consult each other though.
We have to take into consideration though, that we tend to go grey area a lot, so it isn't easy for the mod team either.
The only thing we can do is be careful of what we write and learn what got us banned and evade that when posting.
I do believe controversy sells, and gets you posts, but you have to go grey for that, so proceed knowing you can throw yourself to the sharks with that underwater jump.
You posts a lot of Nintendo stuff, don't you? That forum has a lot of activity, I doubt you have much trouble getting discussions going for those threads when Nintendo fans are so active.
In this situation you found yourself getting banned for name calling, so try to evade narrowing down an explanation to a single adjective. Actually, evade adjectives. Maybe opened questions that ask for thoughts and opinions will make people confront your ideas and arguments. Just a thought.