The only people who fear banning are the people who want to post irrelevant nonsense or are trying to troll. I am glad that you have that fear, it keeps this place worth coming to.

Silmakuoppaanikinko

799 Posts

April 01 2011 23:14 GMT

#202

I kind of have this every place on every forum, I'm really good with getting myself banned making outrageous remarks and going off topic a lot.

What also doesn't help is that I like to argue a lot with policy making people and people who generally enjoy a lot of authority and power.

Physician

United States4146 Posts

April 01 2011 23:29 GMT

#203

The only thing worth fearing is, the fog.

As for the fear of banning subject: teamliquid IS NOT about NOT getting banned or getting banned for that matter; it is about striving for excellence, everything else is secondary. An old reminder, from a nobody, who remembers the passion: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=59762

Varpulis

United States2517 Posts

April 01 2011 23:29 GMT

#204

Before I post anything I think to myself "does anybody else want/need to hear this comment" works like a charm for me. Also, as a newcomer to the site I feel that I need to be especially careful, because even guys with 2000+ posts get temp banned for posting poorly(Example: Hawk), so if I slip up, i'm gone for sure.

Thrill

2599 Posts

April 01 2011 23:30 GMT

#205

I live in constant fear.

During nights i cannot sleep. When exhaustion lulls me into an uneasy slumber, it's not long until i wake up screaming from from the shear terror that haunts my dreams.

I've driven my girlfriend away. She thinks it's my memories from Afghanistan that changed me. She doesn't know. How could she ever? How could i ever talk to her about this, she wouldn't understand and i'd never be the same in her eyes.

It is better this way. Alone. What if someone i love creates an account because of me? No, this is a burden i cannot share. My one remaining comfort is knowing others are safe and live their lives without ever having seen the things i've seen. I treasure the thought of their blissful unawareness. The memories of my girlfriends loving embrace and her wonderful words "Team Liquid, what's that?". I keep them locked up, deep inside. They're what keep the beating of my heart going..
..on
and
on..

rdj107

United States336 Posts

April 01 2011 23:40 GMT

#206

Several posts in, warned for "Being a dick". Stopped debating other posts.

From the generally unhelpful nature of the warning messages and no way to see who warned you or ask why, I can see there being a fear of unwittingly getting on the bad side of a random mod someday, though it's unlikely to happen.

disco

Netherlands1667 Posts

April 01 2011 23:43 GMT

#207

It's really easy to get warned. But every post I got warned for, I knew it was coming. It's so easy to make bad posts and the reason I read these forums about 24/7 is because of the great moderating.

alexx1202

Australia1 Post

April 02 2011 00:27 GMT

#208

If u worry about being banned u need to grow a pair and harden the fuck up.

..and get a life too, its an internet forum ffs.

User was banned for this post.

Kinetik_Inferno

United States1431 Posts

April 02 2011 00:38 GMT

#209

It really just comes down to being polite as you would in real life. I highly doubt you'd just walk up to a nice stranger who gets along with people well, and then just ruin their day with obscenity and harsh words. Bottom line, internet anonymity will not exonerate you here.

@alexx1202
I loled how relevant your quote is to your post.

FabledIntegral

United States9232 Posts

April 02 2011 00:41 GMT

#210

I'm usually skating on thin ice.

On April 02 2011 09:27 alexx1202 wrote:
If u worry about being banned u need to grow a pair and harden the fuck up.

..and get a life too, its an internet forum ffs.

... what a terrible first post.

nexitustl1

156 Posts

April 02 2011 03:44 GMT

#211

over the years iv been banned a handful of times, i basically a stupid person with no understanding of english and basic sentence structure. I do admit that all of my bans are not directly because of my lack of grammar but more to immature stupid post. With anything important in life tho (such as TL) you will have to literally kill me before i will not be on this site, so over that time iv learned to be extremely more mature and to not just post dumb one to two word crap like "amg! thats funneh"

I don't have the morbid fascination with the automated ban list tho i feel that reminds me to much of the pain i had to go through.

Funnytoss

Taiwan1471 Posts

April 02 2011 03:49 GMT

#212

I've never worried about this in my three years of posting. Part of that may have been because I lurked for two years before bothering to make an account, so I observed many examples as to what to do and what *not* to do in posting. Recently I've raised standards for myself a bit too - rather than "don't be detrimental", it's more of a "what does my post add to this thread/site" kind of mindset. After all, while posting, "That's an interesting build idea, you should try it out a bit more" doesn't go against any of the rules as far as I know, it doesn't really contribute anything either.

At any rate, I feel it's ridiculously hard to get banned unless you act like a dick.

DisaFear

Australia4074 Posts

April 02 2011 03:53 GMT

#213

I got a warning for doing a "+1"
Now i'm scared

Kamais_Ookin

Canada4218 Posts

April 02 2011 04:01 GMT

#214

Every time i get a PM I think to myself, what's the odds of a user messaging me? Lately though I've been more active in TL and getting more and more messages from non-mods, and well I think I behave very well except for the odd 'rage' in LR thread.

Loanshark

China3094 Posts

April 02 2011 04:10 GMT

#215

I'm a law-abiding citizen, so therefore I do not need to live in fear.

+ Show Spoiler +

Actually I have two 2-day temps and a warning in my history.

iNSiPiD1

United States140 Posts

April 02 2011 04:15 GMT

#216

I got banned recently for posing an alternative viewpoint in a thread where everyone was against me. However I could not be proven wrong, but since I was one of the few people with this alternative way of looking at the situation, I was deemed a troll.

The mod thought of a clever line to put under his reason for banning me and couldn't resist. So the next thing you know I'm banned for essentially participating in a discussion.

Had I posted things like,

"WWOOOWOOW what a d-bag" or "THAT guy is a HUGE loser omGFF" then I would not have been banned.

Go figure.

LittleAtari

Jordan1090 Posts

April 02 2011 04:16 GMT

#217

be a nice person and dont post BS, you'll be fine. I like it =D

I do have one warning, but it was reasonable.

rolfe

United Kingdom1266 Posts

April 02 2011 04:16 GMT

#218

to be honest i see more posts where i think the mods have been too soft on people than posts where people have been banned unfairly

AlexDeLarge

Romania218 Posts

April 02 2011 04:21 GMT

#219

On April 02 2011 09:41 FabledIntegral wrote:
I'm usually skating on thin ice.

Show nested quote +

... what a terrible first post.

I actually agree with him. What the fuck is this chode shit?! An internet forum is like the lowest social pressure environment i can think of. If you can't relax and be uninhibited here, how the hell do you plan on dealing with real life pressures?

Half the people who posted in this thread deserve a smack on the face. You're men, not pussies

User was warned for this post