Did you appeal the warning, just quickly?Trolldor said:But you don't have to attack people to recieve a warning. I've recieved probations for 'trolling' simply for expressing an opinion, a post without a single personal attack.Spinwhiz said:Actually, there are members who have been here for years and have over 10,000 posts who don't have a single warning. Over 99% of the current posters don't have more than 2 warnings. It IS possible and should be if everyone respects everyone else. The problem comes in when people's attitudes get in their way and they get "mad". This is a text based forum, if something pisses you off that much, walk away. Even better, report, ignore and walk away for a bit. There is no reason someone should be warned 8 times to be respectful and not call others names. In a debate setting, you would be disqualified, in real life you could be arrested for verbal assault.Naheal said:You aren't addressing the main issue of the punishment system. You're asking us to slip as little as possible, but, being human, it's going to happen. You're also stating that, if we slip up eight times, it's going to result in a permaban. This is where I feel that the system wouldn't work. While there are a few individuals who would be able to keep that by only posting maybe once or twice a week and stating something about a game or two, this essentially puts a lifetime limit on a particular account.Spinwhiz said:I would say to send in an appeal then. They have the ability to read your plead for change and change it.Bon_Clay said:My problem with that is I've had half of those chances skipped over. I'm in the yellow and I've only ever had one post break the rules. Never got any warnings, it was straight to probation the first time. So now anything I do is automatically a suspension, and even though that was quite a long time ago I'm 3 away from a permanent ban.Spinwhiz said:That is why we give 7 chances. Don't think I'm trying to push you, or anyone else, off either. I completely understand where you are coming from as we've had this discussion internally before we could even think about launching the new penalty system and updated rules (which has been months now). We just feel that we do give chances, 8 of them, and those who can not hold it together for The Escapist to have to tell someone 8 times that isn't how you behave is more than enough.
I'm sorry, mate. I understand that you're looking at a rewards system down the road if we play nice, but you really need to consider bringing such a system in sooner rather than later.
If people really want to be able to say whatever they want, in any way they want, there are a lot of places on the internet to do so.
It was assumed I was trolling, and because of the misinformed accusations and assumptions, my "record" is tarnished because a mod decided that they didn't like what I wrote.
I've recieved a warning for complaining about the advertisements in the side panels, when there was nothing in the rules which forbade such action.
I used to moderate a forum. I know how it works.
That is why this whole permanent record thing is bullocks.
Even if, as you claim "less than 2%" (Which, by the by, we have no way of actually verifying) have more than 2 warnings, that's still a 2% where there is a margin for error.
That's still a 2% built partly on your mistakes, either individually or as a team.
That's a 2% who are going to pay for assumptions and presumptions by the mods and have no real form of redress because for the most part they have no idea what's wrong with their post beyond a single word justification.
Dismissing that 2% is just plain bad moderation.
Also, remember that this is the internet. You've seen people who, no matter how many times they're warned, will keep making accusations against other users/generally being an unpleasant fellow around these parts, no matter how many times they're warned, yes?
Why are you assuming that the minority is entirely made up of people who have been wronged by the mods?
EDIT: I read the post wrong, and I apologise.