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pyrogenetix
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
China5098 Posts
September 24 2010 19:59 GMT
#161
eh i've been here for years and i've only been warned once I think, and I've had my fair share of posts where I totally let someone have it.
Yea that looks just like Kang Min... amazing game sense... and uses mind games well, but has the micro of a washed up progamer.
Hunch
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada336 Posts
September 24 2010 20:00 GMT
#162
TL isn't strict enough, dont know what your smoking.
I have a Hunch.770
cz
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3249 Posts
September 24 2010 20:00 GMT
#163
On September 25 2010 04:55 BroOd wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 25 2010 04:52 cz wrote:
On September 25 2010 04:50 SpicyCrab wrote:
Jibba,

I know, I was just messing.

Any way, as someone who was banned already I would say that getting warnings and bans early on is pretty reasonable. The forum has pretty unique rules that newer users may not be aware of/ used to but most of them are good.

The mods are generally pretty fair. And considering how good this forum is nobody should really be complaining. :/


We are the site. This site is nothing without the users. TL would go under if nobody visited. TL is not doing you a favor by existing, you are doing the owner a favor by adding equity (as a pageview or as a part of the community) by being here. TL is a business, not a charity house: there's a reason why you aren't allowed to own part of its shares.

People don't visit TL because they feel like doing the staff a favor. They visit because they get something out of the experience. It's a mutually beneficial relationship.


And as such the idea that users somehow owe something to TL is a faulty idea, as was my point.
gods_basement
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States305 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-24 20:05:19
September 24 2010 20:04 GMT
#164
On September 25 2010 05:00 cz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 25 2010 04:55 BroOd wrote:
On September 25 2010 04:52 cz wrote:
On September 25 2010 04:50 SpicyCrab wrote:
Jibba,

I know, I was just messing.

Any way, as someone who was banned already I would say that getting warnings and bans early on is pretty reasonable. The forum has pretty unique rules that newer users may not be aware of/ used to but most of them are good.

The mods are generally pretty fair. And considering how good this forum is nobody should really be complaining. :/


We are the site. This site is nothing without the users. TL would go under if nobody visited. TL is not doing you a favor by existing, you are doing the owner a favor by adding equity (as a pageview or as a part of the community) by being here. TL is a business, not a charity house: there's a reason why you aren't allowed to own part of its shares.

People don't visit TL because they feel like doing the staff a favor. They visit because they get something out of the experience. It's a mutually beneficial relationship.


And as such the idea that users somehow owe something to TL is a faulty idea, as was my point.


I think that TL would be a much better place if everyone who complained about moderation left. It wouldnt hurt to send away everyone who feels that the post in question was a quality post, for good measure. (you read the previous sentence twice.)


nobody likes to sift through these kinds of comments 24/7. I owe the Teamliquid staff quite a bit for sheltering such a wonderful community from the assholes of the internet
(TT~TT)
BroOd
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Austin10833 Posts
September 24 2010 20:04 GMT
#165
On September 25 2010 05:00 cz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 25 2010 04:55 BroOd wrote:
On September 25 2010 04:52 cz wrote:
On September 25 2010 04:50 SpicyCrab wrote:
Jibba,

I know, I was just messing.

Any way, as someone who was banned already I would say that getting warnings and bans early on is pretty reasonable. The forum has pretty unique rules that newer users may not be aware of/ used to but most of them are good.

The mods are generally pretty fair. And considering how good this forum is nobody should really be complaining. :/


We are the site. This site is nothing without the users. TL would go under if nobody visited. TL is not doing you a favor by existing, you are doing the owner a favor by adding equity (as a pageview or as a part of the community) by being here. TL is a business, not a charity house: there's a reason why you aren't allowed to own part of its shares.

People don't visit TL because they feel like doing the staff a favor. They visit because they get something out of the experience. It's a mutually beneficial relationship.


And as such the idea that users somehow owe something to TL is a faulty idea, as was my point.

I understand, I was just pointing out that your saying, "you are doing the owner a favor" is not the case either. Also, it's not unnatural for someone to feel like they owe TL something if they feel like they've gained a lot here, but that's a personal sentiment and people shouldn't tell others that they, too, "owe TL".
ModeratorSIRL and JLIG.
SpicyCrab
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
402 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-24 20:05:56
September 24 2010 20:04 GMT
#166
Edit: Cz, I guess I wasn't entirely clear here. Just so you understand what I was saying ->

I wasn't saying that they owed anybody any thing. I just don't think there's any reason to complain about overzealous moderation on a forum where overzealous moderation is one of the key positive points.

:/
I'm such a baller in my dreams. - HiFriend
Piy
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Scotland3152 Posts
September 24 2010 20:05 GMT
#167
TL has very good moderating, pretty much the best I've encountered. I can think of no occasions off the top of my head where I was warned or someone else was temp banned that I could disagree with.

Seriously, the best thing about this site is that it actually lets people post actual responses, people don't just constantly flame each other.
My. Copy. Is. Here.
cz
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3249 Posts
September 24 2010 20:08 GMT
#168
On September 25 2010 05:04 gods_basement wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 25 2010 05:00 cz wrote:
On September 25 2010 04:55 BroOd wrote:
On September 25 2010 04:52 cz wrote:
On September 25 2010 04:50 SpicyCrab wrote:
Jibba,

I know, I was just messing.

Any way, as someone who was banned already I would say that getting warnings and bans early on is pretty reasonable. The forum has pretty unique rules that newer users may not be aware of/ used to but most of them are good.

The mods are generally pretty fair. And considering how good this forum is nobody should really be complaining. :/


We are the site. This site is nothing without the users. TL would go under if nobody visited. TL is not doing you a favor by existing, you are doing the owner a favor by adding equity (as a pageview or as a part of the community) by being here. TL is a business, not a charity house: there's a reason why you aren't allowed to own part of its shares.

People don't visit TL because they feel like doing the staff a favor. They visit because they get something out of the experience. It's a mutually beneficial relationship.


And as such the idea that users somehow owe something to TL is a faulty idea, as was my point.


I think that TL would be a much better place if everyone who complained about moderation left. It wouldnt hurt to send away everyone who feels that the post in question was a quality post, for good measure. (you read the previous sentence twice.)


nobody likes to sift through these kinds of comments 24/7. I owe the Teamliquid staff quite a bit for sheltering such a wonderful community from the assholes of the internet


This is how I always get in trouble. Some guy goes after me, mods ignore, I respond, mods temp ban me.
Drteeth
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Great Britain415 Posts
September 24 2010 20:08 GMT
#169
There are have been more temp bans lately to be sure, I wonder if that is because alot of people have come from the general wow forums and brought their attitudes with them.
99% of bans are justified imho.
Nice cheese ....GG!
cz
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3249 Posts
September 24 2010 20:08 GMT
#170
On September 25 2010 05:04 SpicyCrab wrote:
Edit: Cz, I guess I wasn't entirely clear here. Just so you understand what I was saying ->

I wasn't saying that they owed anybody any thing. I just don't think there's any reason to complain about overzealous moderation on a forum where overzealous moderation is one of the key positive points.

:/


Unless you think overzealous moderation is a problem, of course, like the OP.
TyPsi5
Profile Joined May 2010
United States204 Posts
September 24 2010 20:11 GMT
#171
Strict is what makes the site good. Having a site with no limits draws the worst crowd.
eLiE
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada1039 Posts
September 24 2010 20:12 GMT
#172
don't question the gods, for they shall do as they please, and it shall be good

TL Genesis 1:1

I thought it was a good ban; random douchiness gets you banned, especially if it's against our glorious zerg king idra. and it didn't contribute to the thread.
How's the weather down there?
-_-
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
United States7081 Posts
September 24 2010 20:13 GMT
#173
Teamliquid's moderation is much too lenient. And this is coming from someone who has been banned four times.

When I look back on these forums used to be, I can't help but think they were much better 4 years ago than they are today. Part of this evaluation by me is probably due to nostalgia. Yet more is probably due to the fact that because Broodwar was so developed a game -- If someone posted infested terran drop build in the strategy forum, the person who posted it could be called a little bitch and banned -- today, if someone posts an infested terran strategy, because nobody fully understands Starcraft 2, moderators have to be more careful.

Still, I think part of the reason why I dislike the forums more today than I did before is because they're worse. A huge influx of shitty, cocky, one-line posters are now teamliquid.net members.

Administrators and moderators: Get to work. All your warnings should be temp bans, and all your temp bans full bans. The truth is, I'm not the greatest poster myself. Maybe I will get banned. But at least when I'm lurking, I'll be lurking on a forum where I don't want to jump through my computer screen and slap the OP.
coltrane
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Chile988 Posts
September 24 2010 20:14 GMT
#174
it takes a lot of time to learn how to "navigate" the forums. Its ok to be BM sometimes, somewhere, and in other places/moments it isnt.

To some people is hard to understand that, but you need to know the flow of the site and try to understand the mods and the flow of the site.

Its alright to have your own opinions, its not alright to derail a thread about one subject into another that we all know how its gonna end.
Jävla skit
Nazarid
Profile Joined February 2010
United States445 Posts
September 24 2010 20:17 GMT
#175
if you want forums with massive trolls goto blizzards sc2 forums.. its just bad
Randomize the world, and Life shall be given.
Sinensis
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States2513 Posts
September 24 2010 20:18 GMT
#176
On September 25 2010 02:39 chimthegrim wrote:

This thread as an example:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=155453


The first response was a guy that said this:
Show nested quote +

"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.





This is a perfect example of how one post can completely derail an entire thread.

<3 TL mods
Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany / USA16648 Posts
September 24 2010 20:25 GMT
#177
On September 25 2010 02:39 chimthegrim wrote:

This thread as an example:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=155453


The first response was a guy that said this:
Show nested quote +

"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.

Please don't go around martyring yourself, we usually ban people outright for comments like these, it's incredibly annoying.

No one is going to ban anyone for constructive criticism..., which should be in the feedback forum btw.

On September 25 2010 03:52 SweeTLemonS[TPR] wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 25 2010 02:55 Hot_Bid wrote:
What is most frustrating is users stating "I hope I don't get banned for this" when they are simply posting feedback or criticism of our website. We aren't the Ministry of Truth and this isn't 1984. If you're reasonable and polite, nobody is going to ban you even if you completely disagree with how we do things. We've always prided ourselves on TL's ability to be open about criticism, admit when we're wrong, and correct mistaken bans.

What you're describing in the OP isn't a free speech issue. If we banned you for posting this thread, then yes that's a problem. But the guy you quoted is a really bad example because he's ignoring the thread to post his own opinion on Idra. His post just leads to people responding to him and an argument about "QQing" rather than discussing the actual topic. Thus, we feel a temp ban was the right action to take.


While I agree with most everything you say here, I've never seen an incorrect ban fixed (could just go on in MiR I guess). I suppose that it could have changed since when I was banned once, long ago (on some total bullshit reason, that Beyonder agreed was an unnecessary ban on IRC, but wouldn't undo my ban). But if I had one complaint about moderation here, it would be the perceived infallibility mods seem to have, and the collusion between them. Certainly it makes sense that mods would agree with each other for the most part, and certainly in front of all the regular posters (you need that sort of continuity so people don't think the moderation at the site is shit, of course), but mods here seem pretty arrogant about their status sometimes.

No, we certainly don't discuss what other moderators do in the public forums, but internal forum discussions about specific bans are common. It might not happen every day, that a ban is shortened or completely undone, but it happens. No mod is perfect, but I believe with plenty of other mods looking at each other's bans/warnings it works out very well.
Bey couldn't have unbanned you even if he wanted to, mods can't unban, only admins can.


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tbrown47
Profile Joined August 2009
United States1235 Posts
September 24 2010 20:26 GMT
#178
On September 25 2010 02:39 chimthegrim wrote:
TL a little too strict on speech?


Not really, they seem pretty fair. As long as your post is relevant to the thread, then you won't be punished. The post that guy made was clearly him trying to start a flame war, and had very little to do with the thread.
just here
Mawi
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden4365 Posts
September 24 2010 20:26 GMT
#179
Everytime a mod gives a player a warning and a ban they do something called dance this dance is a ritual and its said to repel trolls and make sure they will never come back from the unknown origins they came from. i have a feeling i will get a warning :o
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Seam
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1093 Posts
September 24 2010 20:27 GMT
#180
On September 25 2010 02:41 TryThis wrote:
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.


Indeed, TL has some of the best Mods I've seen to date.
I only needed one probe to take down idra. I had to upgrade to a zealot for strelok. - Liquid`Tyler
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