"Come on guys... Idra isnt god... he gonna qq like every other zerg player because they didnt receive buff..."
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So now the question I am raising here is "Is TL a little too strict on what can or can't be said on the forums?"
The example I provided is someone who in obvious disagreement and he has expressed that by saying "Idra isn't god." Yet, this is ban worthy? I'm wondering why it is so easy to get temp banned on TL.
Well, just a thought. Hopefully I don't get banned for this post.
personally, i think the fact that TL is strict is why i love it so much as a forum. the post your talking about, really didnt benefit the thread whatsoever, in fact it was right on the way to ruining a good thread. as a result he got his bans.
TL does a good job. I have been to way too many forums where users run amok, and frankly I am tired of it. Maybe its because I'm in my 20s now, but I really appreciate TL's moderators. There is a reason this is the only forum I come to anymore.
If anything, they are not strict enough. One of my first posts on TL was greeted with another user telling me that I should kill myself for posting my ideas. He was never even warned for it
EDIT: And the guy you quoted was a retard, the Mod in that thread said "This is an example of how one bad post de-rails a good thread". The guy screwed up the thread, he deserved what he got.
The amount of idiots at the present time warrants it. That guy's comment was stupid and not constructive in any way. If anything I think the mods need to amp up the ban hammering
TL used to be the finest community on the internet that i've ever seen and it has been in steady decline of post quality in the SC2 forums ever since the beta started, so i think it's fair that they're taking matters into their own hands on their website.
Are you kidding? That is the perfect example of a completely shitty post derailing the thread. He didn't even read the interview, made an assumption and like 5 posts on the first page were telling him he is an idiot instead of responding to the opening post.
If you want to troll, you can go to pretty much any other forum on the internet, just stay the fuck out of teamliquid. Free speech is cool as long as you follow the 10 commandments and in general, just be respectful.
"Come on guys... Idra isnt god... he gonna qq like every other zerg player because they didnt receive buff..."
User was warned for this post
User was temp banned for this post.
So now the question I am raising here is "Is TL a little too strict on what can or can't be said on the forums?"
The example I provided is someone who in obvious disagreement and he has expressed that by saying "Idra isn't god." Yet, this is ban worthy? I'm wondering why it is so easy to get temp banned on TL.
Well, just a thought. Hopefully I don't get banned for this post.
It is temp-ban worthy imo, the thread was IdrA's opinion on the patch notes. This guy who is stating that "IdrA isnt god" etc wasn't talking about patch notes, or IdrA's opinion on them, just his opinion on IdrA
That guy deserved it. Idra writes a well thought out structured post about the current state of the game and someone whos been here for a week comes in and starts saying all hes doing is qq'ing about zerg being underpowered?
If your response to ANY well thought out post is something along the lines of "stop qq'ing" or "l2play" then you deserve a ban
Im sure if his post was more structured and he actually read the post where idra said that the patch didnt change much but is a step in the right direction.
Instead he made a post that will only cause flaming and derail the actual discussion, fully justified ban imo
i LOVE TL's moderation. The philosophy "Add something useful to the conversation, or bugger off." and "Direct attacks = warn/ban" makes the discussion so much more interesting.
Note: I did not issue the ban cited and didn't have anything to do with it. This is just my take on moderation that isn't representative for all Mods.
Let's talk about your example, you say:
The example I provided is someone who in obvious disagreement and he has expressed that by saying "Idra isn't god." Yet, this is ban worthy? I'm wondering why it is so easy to get temp banned on TL.
Now, firstly he posted in a thread that was about Idra being interviewed about the patch. So there is nothing to 'disagree' about. It's not remotely related to the topic of the thread. Secondly, he used a sweeping generalization, "every other zerg player". We don't like those racial stereotypes. We ban people for dissing Terran for being OP, we ban people for dissing Zerg about complaining. Thirdly, he uses bad spelling, interpunctuation, and stereotypical low-effort internet lingo. That, too, is despicable.
So in short, what we don't like is derailing a thread by posting stuff that doesn't belong there, and we give even worse marks for putting now effort into the posting. The opinion isn't important. If you disagree with anything that Idra said content-wise, you are welcome to express it, if you feel like his opinion is generally being heeded too much, you might find a way to formulate it. But not like this.
I've lurked/posted in a lot of forums, and TL has the best moderators by far. They would rather have quality posting instead quantitative garbage. Even with an influx of new players they've handled it.
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