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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 4841614" data-attributes="member: 463">Mmm, ok so it sounds like the mods are not anti 4e or anti 3e, but anti perceived 'negativity'.Personally, I like both 3e and 4e, and am currently taking a break from my ongoing 3e campaign to start a short 4e campaign next month.However, in the Goodman thread where I got banned for 3 days, it seemed to me that I was perceived as being negative about 4e, because I pointed out that Goodman was saying that 4e had not sold as well as 3e did a year after launch - though he put a positive spin on this.&nbsp; To me, that says nothing about the relative merits of each game.&nbsp; A poster consequently regarded me as anti-4e, was fairly rude to me and others, and got a ban.&nbsp; I also got a ban.&nbsp; My feeling is that I was more vulnerable to being banned because I was perceived by the mods as a negative poster, and that perception was based on the statements of another poster.So, my advice to mods would be: Before you ban people, stop and think, is this poster really being negative?&nbsp; Are they being disruptive?&nbsp; What's actually going on here?&nbsp; In particular, indiscriminate banning of everyone involved in a conversation may be quick and easy, it may even fend off accusations of bias (&quot;See, we banned both sides!&quot;), but I don't think it's a good idea.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 4841614, member: 463"] Mmm, ok so it sounds like the mods are not anti 4e or anti 3e, but anti perceived 'negativity'. Personally, [B]I like both 3e and 4e[/B], and am currently taking a break from my ongoing 3e campaign to start a short 4e campaign next month. However, in the Goodman thread where I got banned for 3 days, it seemed to me that I was perceived as being negative about 4e, because I pointed out that Goodman was saying that 4e had not sold as well as 3e did a year after launch - though he put a positive spin on this. To me, that says nothing about the relative merits of each game. A poster consequently regarded me as anti-4e, was fairly rude to me and others, and got a ban. I also got a ban. My feeling is that I was more vulnerable to being banned because I was perceived by the mods as a negative poster, and that perception was based on the statements of another poster. So, my advice to mods would be: Before you ban people, stop and think, is this poster really being negative? Are they being disruptive? What's actually going on here? In particular, indiscriminate banning of everyone involved in a conversation may be quick and easy, it may even fend off accusations of bias ("See, we banned both sides!"), but I don't think it's a good idea. [/QUOTE]

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