Quote from: wmarshal on February 15, 2021, 09:24:47 AM

Quote from: zircher on February 15, 2021, 09:04:39 AM
Heh, looks like golem's posts were deleted.  So much for learning what actual words triggered the mods.

I think the mods are trying to make the users terrified of not knowing where the boundaries are by giving vague guidance on some issues, and eliminating posts deemed offensive so that one cannot see what the tripwire for a ban was. Having the rules in a constant state of being hard to comprehend is an old tool of establishing an environment of terror to instill discipline. One eventually stops initiating any action not explicitly endorsed or managed by the leadership cadre. God help you if you wind up associated with a faction of the leadership that finds itself disfavored.

They literally banned a guy for asking clarification as why another post caused a ban.

Edit: And, oh... You can be banned if you write that you didn't like the recent Star Wars movies. For "negativity".

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/did-the-mandalorian-finale-make-you-want-to-pull-out-your-star-wars-rpg.874277/#post-23648431

Well; 'Just Asking Questions' JAQ is a documented bannable offence in the volatile FAQ. Rule 1 actually!

Quote from: Samsquantch on February 16, 2021, 06:34:50 AM
I'm very glad I left that place years ago. I would be banned for sure now just for wrongthink.

I still have an active and unbanned account there; I think.

Checking would require I have a fuck to give about the site.

The way it's trending I'd probably be permabanned for having to use the password recovery system anyway ("what? You didn't memorize your password to THE most important site on the internet? BANNED!!!").

The only reason I haven't requested a permanent ban is that I scrambled my email and password 4 years ago, before they started offering them on demand.

At least your posts with faith profession in signature shall haunt their site for all eternity :3

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/recovering-cool-receives-a-%F0%9F%92%80-permanent-ban-being-too-awesome.877367/

"Recovering Cool receives a 💀 Permanent Ban: Being Too Awesome"

Recovering Cool said: You'll never get rid of me!

Moderator Text: Recovering Cool, we have warned you several times about exceeding the parameters for acceptable levels of awesomeness clearly laid out in the RPGnet Rules & Guidelines. We are therefore permanently banning you for being too awesome. Appeals may be sent to the admins.

Quote from: cenmarik on February 17, 2021, 12:06:55 AM
https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/recovering-cool-receives-a-%F0%9F%92%80-permanent-ban-being-too-awesome.877367/

"Recovering Cool receives a 💀 Permanent Ban: Being Too Awesome"

Recovering Cool said: You'll never get rid of me!

Moderator Text: Recovering Cool, we have warned you several times about exceeding the parameters for acceptable levels of awesomeness clearly laid out in the RPGnet Rules & Guidelines. We are therefore permanently banning you for being too awesome. Appeals may be sent to the admins.

On another site, that might be funny. On rpg.net, it's tone deaf.

So this happened.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/infraction-for-bushido11-17-permanent-ban.834052/

Now, here's where I start scratching my head. Bushido11 was banned in 2018 for, quote:

QuoteThere are three large problems with what you've posted. First, you were banned from this thread, yet here you are posting in it again. Second, responding to redtext is against the rules, and here you are doing that, too. And lastly, not only did you sealion in support of MRAs, which is a violation of our sexism policy, you decided to do the above violating of your threadban and replying to moderator redtext in order to*continue to sealion in support of MRAs.

This blatant and willful disregard of*multiple*rules of this site at a single stroke like that indicates that you're not going to be a good fit here, and as a result you're permabanned under Rule 1 and Rule 10. Appeals may be sent to the Admin email.

On Saturday, March 20, Sphinx of Black Quartz posted that his ban was reversed on appeal. However, if you access bushido11's post history, he started posting again on the 12th, over a week before the announcement.

I could buy it taking a day or so to dig up the infraction record, but eight days? And for a three year old ban for 'poor fit on the forum' and 'supporting MRAs'?

Now, I suppose after three years bushido11 wrote an amazing verbal sucking-off of admin that got them to reverse the ban. Or that the originator of said ban (ANT Pogo) had departed and someone else decided he had been too harsh. But this just seems a BIT suspicious and weird.

I could be wrong, I admit. But does this trip the shenanigans detector for anyone else?

I suspect that Bushido11 has been "born again" into the Woke, AND that Bushido11 holds some position as either an academic or at a game company where the ban on him was going to be seen as particularly harsh for a new ally. I don't see them reversing this ban for just some rando who ticked them off years ago even if the rando has become Woke.

Not really. More like someone being either being too distracted or just not all that interested to post till later.

Its a fairly common thing.

I've seen delays of upwards of a month. Rare that.

Personally I have a few people banned from my place. But its been so long I am not sure now what the hell they did way back. But to get me to ban someone it usually took alot of effort so I am safe to assume it is best to keep the fuckers on ban.

I've also taken at least two people off ban once the problem was resolved. In one case a player was trying to tell me that I had no right to have a rule in my place that no one could IC'ly force an action on anyone else's character. I then pointed out that A: I was the admin for the area. B: I was the owner of the establishment in that area. And most importantly C: This was just a re-iteration of the site wide rule.
Boy did they pitch a fit about how that was a lie. I have zero patience with IC abuse at that point and banned them.
Then the site admin had a little talk with them letting them know it was all fact.
Their tone changed pronto and I un-banned them.

Oooh, here's a tasty one.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/kastor-krieg-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-seven-day-ban-holdo-policy.877754/

Now, the 'Holdo Policy' might as well be called the 'how dare you criticize a female mod in any way, shape, or fashion, shitlord Policy'. Because that's what it amounts to. What amuses me is the guy is trying to tip toe through the social justice minefield and gets blown up anyways. Poor fellow.

Quote from: Ghostmaker on February 24, 2021, 02:29:54 PM
Oooh, here's a tasty one.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/kastor-krieg-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-seven-day-ban-holdo-policy.877754/

Now, the 'Holdo Policy' might as well be called the 'how dare you criticize a female mod in any way, shape, or fashion, shitlord Policy'. Because that's what it amounts to. What amuses me is the guy is trying to tip toe through the social justice minefield and gets blown up anyways. Poor fellow.

  If you go back to the original thread, one of the other posters is on the path to enlightenment:

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I am not trying to borrow trouble but I also had no idea BCAugust was a woman. Is it just safer to not publicly question moderation?

The performative public executions they were famous for is getting out of hand.

It's  be like they are not even trying to be remotely polite or civil in anyway. They might as well tell those who don't like it to fuck off and leave.

If any good came out of this it's that those who claimed this place was the worst and most repressive place can no longer do so. E other they are stubborn to an incredible degree or just clinically blind.

Wtf is "Holdoing"? Also, I thought we weren't supposed to assume anyone's gender, or does that only apply when it won't benefit them? Like I will be nicer to chicks, but it's bad to be nicer to chicks unless they are getting free drinks, even though I'm a terrible person for assuming they want a free drink or that they're female, but I had better buy them that drink lest I be an asshole.

And then modern Western women wonder why they're dying alone with their cats...