What is it with the mods at that place? First, I'm in this thread about welfare, and since the posters there are a bunch of bleeding heart leafy-suburb-living gated community types, I find myself arguing with the whole house. So, in the space of like 2 minutes, I find myself missing a couple of "red font" (o-o-o-o-o-h!) warnings from mods. One of them tells me to stop posting to the thread, mostly because the aforementioned gated community dwellers can't take the heat I guess, because I was being perfectly civil, so I edit one of my posts to add a quick line (to reply to some jerk putting words in my mouth that I didn't say) and then I'm done. And bam, I'm banned for a week or two or whatever it was.
And when you're banned at that crappy dork-hovel where free speech means "free 'as long as it doesn't offend any geeks' speech," you can't even read threads or check your notifications so you have no idea WTF the problem even was if you blinked and missed it.
So, my ban expired a few days ago and I added an innocuous post to the thread in question. How the hell was I to know I was NEVER allowed to post again to that thread? What, I'm not allowed to have an opinion again, ever, on the topic? WTF kind of sense does that make? And how was I supposed to know?
So now, I'm banned for two months, for violating a rule I didn't even know was in place. They have an email address you're supposed to use to contact them with stuff like this, and they didn't even answer my first email, which I sent them in hopes of getting clarification and a bit of common courtesy in reviewing my case. They didn't even respond to my email. I sent them another after this latest banning, but I doubt they'll answer that either.
Is this normal for RPG forums? Or is rpg.net just the biggest bunch of high-handed autocratic hive-mind low-testosterone intolerant bigoted dorks on the planet?
Mod Note: Ironically, you didn't like moderation in a political discussion, and you come to a board with a pretty solid "no politics" rule to gripe about it...
EN World does not find cross-board drama constructive. If you don't like the moderation there, then don't post there. Venting about it here may help you feel better, but for the rest of us it is a pile of steaming negativity just begging to start arguments.
Thread closed.
~Umbran, EN World Moderator
And when you're banned at that crappy dork-hovel where free speech means "free 'as long as it doesn't offend any geeks' speech," you can't even read threads or check your notifications so you have no idea WTF the problem even was if you blinked and missed it.
So, my ban expired a few days ago and I added an innocuous post to the thread in question. How the hell was I to know I was NEVER allowed to post again to that thread? What, I'm not allowed to have an opinion again, ever, on the topic? WTF kind of sense does that make? And how was I supposed to know?
So now, I'm banned for two months, for violating a rule I didn't even know was in place. They have an email address you're supposed to use to contact them with stuff like this, and they didn't even answer my first email, which I sent them in hopes of getting clarification and a bit of common courtesy in reviewing my case. They didn't even respond to my email. I sent them another after this latest banning, but I doubt they'll answer that either.
Is this normal for RPG forums? Or is rpg.net just the biggest bunch of high-handed autocratic hive-mind low-testosterone intolerant bigoted dorks on the planet?
Mod Note: Ironically, you didn't like moderation in a political discussion, and you come to a board with a pretty solid "no politics" rule to gripe about it...
EN World does not find cross-board drama constructive. If you don't like the moderation there, then don't post there. Venting about it here may help you feel better, but for the rest of us it is a pile of steaming negativity just begging to start arguments.
Thread closed.
~Umbran, EN World Moderator
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