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Strategyking92 on 03 May 2008
obieslut said:
well the reasoning behind th ebann needs to be changed then because it is misleading, and if everyone on this site got banned jst for saying they are a fanboy or bashin another console dare would be hardly no1 left.

WHO FRIGGIN' CARES!!!!! IF HE GOT BANNED HE PROBABLY DESERVED IT! (probably) (I think)

If it is misleading (and it isn't) why do you care? He got what was coming.  Don't try to defend the undefendable.



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obieslut on 03 May 2008
Strategyking92 said:
obieslut said:
well the reasoning behind th ebann needs to be changed then because it is misleading, and if everyone on this site got banned jst for saying they are a fanboy or bashin another console dare would be hardly no1 left.

WHO FRIGGIN' CARES!!!!! IF HE GOT BANNED HE PROBABLY DESERVED IT! (probably) (I think)

If it is misleading (and it isn't) why do you care? He got what was coming. Don't try to defend the undefendable.


 Wa. Nanana da reason 4 his ban was stupid an dats a full well fact. i am suremost people can tell a joke wen dem c 1. And i care because he contributes 2 these forums alot. plus if everyone on this site gets banned 4 da same reason there would b no1 left



epsilon72 on 03 May 2008

Who is captainpreferences an alt account for?



konnichiwa on 03 May 2008

@Flow join the rebellion lol =p.






Duke Of Darkness on 03 May 2008

Ah my head.



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obieslut on 03 May 2008
epsilon72 said:
Who is captainpreferences an alt account for?

 wot u mean

 



Flow on 03 May 2008
Sqrl said:
Flow said:
Sqrl said:
nordlead said:
Flow said:
ssj12 said:
locked do to topic attacking a head mod's decision.

don;t post something like this again or else you will be at the end of my ban hammer.

Why mods are threatening us when we question bans now? Isn't that the reason that banned people posts are appearing now? So we can judge if a ban is fair?

 

Isn't the first time it happened, looks like a dictatorship.


This is a dictatorship, just because it is on the internet doesn't mean you have any say in how the site is run. ioi is kind enough to listen to what the users have to say, but it is still his site.


Ding Ding!

This is absolutely a dictatorship, these people are put in charge and what they say goes. We have no recourse and the reason people continue to come & post is because we have reasonable overlords who don't abuse their power (too much ).

You can debate them in a topic the same as anyone else, the only difference is that they have the added responsibility of swinging down the ban hammer on those who get out of hand. In the case of CaptainPreference he had it coming for a lot more than just that post, in fact I think I counted 3 other posts that were ban worthy given his history as a troll on the site.

Ironically I was reporting him for one of those other posts as DKII was banning him, and I PM'd DKII hoping he would extend the ban...which he didn't because he is a nice overlord. You don't see me making a thread about each offense and wanting people's opinions about whether he should have been banned longer...so why should we have the opposite?

If you have a problem just PM the mod, they are quite reasonable if you are.


Oh really? Then why the thread was locked and the creator was threatened with a ban? And it's not the first time i see it happening.

Why the thread was re-opened is perhaps a better question...it might have something to do with the fact that I was right.

I don't care to captainpreferences, a mod threatened the creator of the topic who didn't even offended somebody, he just wanted to know why captainpreferences was banned and i think it's fair since the ban reason is misleading.

Your argument makes it sound like the thread should have been re-opened...hmmm...you mean it was? So what are you complaining about?

And you don't need to make a thread about each offense, but why not point out when you find a ban unfair? The creator of the thread thought captainpreferences was banned solely for being a sony fanboy.

You can point out when you think a ban is unfair, send a PM to the mod. Simple really.

I remember when ioi started showing the content of banned people posts to everyone, he said it was for we to have the right to judge if a ban is fair or not.

Again the thread is open so what is your complaint? And BTW do you have a link to where ioi said that? I doubt ioi said the members are the judge, I would bet he was saying that members should be able to know why someone was banned(probably so you learn from the mistake)...but if you think members have a say in it you're just wrong.

 


 


 lol

 

I'm glad the thread was reopened, some mod did the right thing.

I didn't said all mods abused power. 

I agree with sending a PM to a mod, that's what i did (well, i posted in his wall but it's the same =P)and i was threatened anyway. 

And members don't need to have a say or agree if someone is banned, but it's wrong to ban someone unfairly. 




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Sqrl on 03 May 2008
Flow said:

lol

 

I'm glad the thread was reopened, some mod did the right thing.

It was reopened before you even posted your first post in the thread.

I didn't said all mods abused power.

I agree with sending a PM to a mod, that's what i did (well, i posted in his wall but it's the same =P)and i was threatened anyway.

Posting in the wall isn't the same as a PM. Saying you were threatened is meaningless without context, you may well have deserved it. A mod's job isn't to put up with our BS, their job is to stop the BS from happening so everyone else can enjoy the site.

And members don't need to have a say or agree if someone is banned, but it's wrong to ban someone unfairly.

Saying an unfair ban is wrong is stating the obvious.


Who decides what is and isn't fair? The mods. Do I agree with all of their decisions? Hell no, I think some of the things they ban for are silly, but I don't have access to the history of each poster and I can't tell who has been banned or warned for trolling, spamming, etc... in the past. All we as members see is someone is banned and a short explaination of why, we don't see the list of prior bans and recent warnings that augment their decisions and we shouldn't be able to see those things because there is a reason they are handled in PMs.

The PMs are to keep things private the goal isn't to humiliate or belittle someone publically (well sometimes they deserve it anyways) and so bans and warnings are handled in PMs. For the same reason objections to bans are handled in PMs. If you disagree with the mod who issued the ban you can contact one of the head mods and protest at that level. If you still disagree you can PM ioi who will probably ignore you because I happen to know he trusts his mod team implicitly, they've earned that trust.



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Flow on 03 May 2008

What's the big deal about a PM? You know it's the same. i didn't even made a mess of a complain, i asked the mod politely to please go back to the topic where the guy was banned and read the reasons i thought the ban was unfair and asking him to reconsider the ban.

Of course the mods decide what is fair and what isn't, but when you see the reason of a ban is "being a sony fanboy", don't you think it's wrong to be banned for being a fanboy?

And yes you have the history of each poster. Each of his posts are there in his profile and the mod even gives the link to the thread the guy was banned.




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twesterm on 03 May 2008
obieslut said:
Strategyking92 said:
obieslut said:
well the reasoning behind th ebann needs to be changed then because it is misleading, and if everyone on this site got banned jst for saying they are a fanboy or bashin another console dare would be hardly no1 left.

WHO FRIGGIN' CARES!!!!! IF HE GOT BANNED HE PROBABLY DESERVED IT! (probably) (I think)

If it is misleading (and it isn't) why do you care? He got what was coming. Don't try to defend the undefendable.


Wa. Nanana da reason 4 his ban was stupid an dats a full well fact. i am suremost people can tell a joke wen dem c 1. And i care because he contributes 2 these forums alot. plus if everyone on this site gets banned 4 da same reason there would b no1 left


Did anyone else get a headache from trying to read that post?

Seriously, this isn't AIM or a text message, at least make an small effort to make your post readable.