Meh I've never been warned or temp banned or w/e and I've said some confrontational things over the years, which leads me to believe that you only get banned for posting things that aren't well-reasoned or constructive. Or if Rekrul felt like banning someone O_O
When I do hastily reply without really thinking about whether or not my post could be constructive and useful to the discussion, I do fear that it might lead to a warning or something worse.
But I think it's a good thing, and we should all fear the ban hammer so that we don't post whatever random crap that might come into our heads

BigJoe

United States210 Posts

April 24 2011 12:30 GMT

#502

I think the mods are fairly reasonable in what they expect out of the TL community, as long as you aren't being a complete idiot don't expect to be warned/banned. I have no fear of either and I would like to thank the mods for doing such a good job keeping the discussions under control while still allowing people to be very opinionated.

I mainly hang out in the strategy forum and am always surprised to see the amount of re-posts when you could just use the little search box in the upper right hand corner to find what you need. Anyway, there is a whole thread dedicated for you to read the rules... stick with the rules and be worry free.

blackone

Germany1314 Posts

April 24 2011 12:31 GMT

#503

Got temp banned for whining about Lag (I felt terribly misinterpreted!), but I feel relatively safe now since I stay away from LR threads

Tyree

1508 Posts

April 24 2011 12:37 GMT

#504

Mods arent people you should fear, they are here to make the place better, it is after all, what they do.

If you ever been to GameFaqs forums you would know what happens when the place loosens their moderation, go into any board and there is so much flaming, whining and 4chan meme spewing garbage in there that the place is basically the cesspool for gamers there.

Compare them to Neogaf who is also very strict and you actually find people who love videogames and love talking about them, go to Gamefaqs - Next Gen Gaming and you will find nothing but joke threads such as "lol PSN is down, Nintendo wins again GPs <_<" and other nonesense that is neither funny nor interesting. Their humor tends to be like M$, as in Microsoft, get it cause they have moneyz! Lulz right? Dear god no its not funny.

If you havent been to those, at least most of you have seen what lousy moderation does to forums, all the good posters leave and all that is left is feces flinging shit at each other.

So for that reason, be happy that SC has a site where fans gather. LR threads are great filter since they have a tendency to really expose people who do not belong here, anytime Idra loses i swear 20 people minimum get a perma ban, they simply never belonged here.

Sewi

Germany1697 Posts

April 24 2011 12:38 GMT

#505

The longer you are around here, the less you might fear being warned or banned. At least if you stick to the rules. Imo TL is a great place to do whatever you want and talk about nearly everything you want. For me, it seems pretty easy to stick to the rules. Of course, new members sometimes dont feel the need to read rules and the results are warnings and bans. I am happy that TL is moderated the way it is.
In more than 6 years, I have not been warned or banned.
Reading the ban list is quite fun, though :p

frontline

United States57 Posts

April 24 2011 12:42 GMT

#506

i'd doubt i have ever gotten a warning for my 2x number of posts

tofucake

Hyrule19086 Posts

April 24 2011 12:43 GMT

#507

You shouldn't fear the mods. Except Chill and Nyovne. Those two are vicious.

hifriend

China7935 Posts

April 24 2011 12:52 GMT

#508

Shouldn't be that hard adhering to the rules tbh, it's pretty straight forward. I just get sloppy/careless, get carried away in LR or drunk post nonsensical/unrelated/non-humorous stuff. At least I don't feel like any of my many bans/warns are due to bm or flaming other members, typically just harmless stuff that clogs up the forum or derails discussion.

Robinsa

Japan1333 Posts

April 24 2011 13:13 GMT

#509

Ive never been banned or got a warning (that Im aware of at least) during my time here. Unless you post stuff that is obviously off-topic or insulting you dont need to worry. Its ok to offend people as long as its necessary to bring a good point to a discussion imo. To pointlessly insult people is just stupid. Again, thats the rules Ive been following and its worked for me.

SiZ.FaNtAsY

Korea (South)1497 Posts

April 24 2011 13:14 GMT

#510

On April 24 2011 21:43 tofucake wrote:
You shouldn't fear the mods. Except Chill and Nyovne. Those two are vicious.

Chill is prob one of my fav

BurningSera

Ireland19621 Posts

April 24 2011 13:57 GMT

#511

the moderation on TL is actually a new thing to me

this is coming from someone have been on alot of forums since late 1999(ye, i was the only kid in the class who used his pocket money to get a 56k modem), and myself have been some mods/admins too. Please note i have no hate or offense towards TL, i completely respect your rules and i did agree on the rules when i sign up on TL. i will write down some thoughts here regarding OP, please dont take them offensively. and if you do, please pm me so i can delete this immediately, i meant no harm/offense to TL at all.

1.On TL, you dont always get banned when you troll, but you get banned when say something 'wrong'. if mod thinks that you are 'wrong', you get banned straight away.
>In general forum: the mod discuss/debates with you til the end of world. one person will get owned in the end. but it doesnt matter who win in the end, if the debate is good and both persons are mature, they will enjoy and respect each other's opinion and thus a good relationship between these posters will grow.

2.TL mods try to educate posters, or not? this is a fair act by mods but go read The Automated Banned thread you will see something like 'Reason: You're an asshole.'. This is confusing, so the poster get banned for being BM and that gives the mod the right to BM him back?
and people get warned/banned for posting 1 liner even if their posts are completely innocent, and sometimes the 1 liner actually is all he needs to express his opinion.
and sometimes if your post is 'not up to the TL quality'(this is depends on the mod, i found that different mods have different 'standards'), you get warned/banned too.
>In general forum: Same, BM is not tolerated, either it is from mod or any poster. insulting words like f*ck, f*ggot etc are censored by the system and some forum dont allow you post when you have less than 15 words etc ie preventing uesless 1 liner post.

3.The TL's mods judge the poster, harshly. their thinking is simple: ' If you aren't going to add value to the website or contribute then perhaps you shouldn't post it.' ie 'if you only talk useless shit here, please gtfo/we love people who type 2 pages wall of text.'
>In general forum: we value our members, these members build up our forum. and we know it deep down, we were once noobs/newbies too, we posted some stupid post/thread too. we cant expect people come here and post a 5k words guide/analysis with their first post. good posters take time to grow. especially gaming websites tend to attract alot of young kids, nurture them, not hit them with ban hammer, harshly. i pity those kids get perm banned just because they did some bad posts (and they have less than a total of 100posts).

i dont feel like to quote more but if people can read The Automated Banned thread thread http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=32696, you can find alot of funny warns/bans.

Overall i am fine with the current TL once i realised that this is TL's sc2 forum, not 'just another sc2 forum on internet'. (and i hope the mods see this post as i am contributing to the forum, whether my points are bad/good/wrong/right, i wrote this text of wall for TL)

hifriend

China7935 Posts

April 24 2011 16:19 GMT

#512

On April 24 2011 22:57 BurningSera wrote:
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imo, there really tends to be a whole lot more substance behind each ban than first meets the eye. Every single time, with no exception, that I've seen someone question or dispute a particular ban in the ban list, one or several mods have always stepped up with a good explanation describing all the surrounding circumstances.

But what you say is essentially right, this is their forum and they do with it as they please. The reason so many people like to stick around is because the end result differs from those "general forums" you mention, I think in a very much so positive way.

Sight-

184 Posts

April 24 2011 16:20 GMT

#513

On April 24 2011 22:14 SiZ.FaNtAsY wrote:

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Chill is prob one of my fav

Chill's a dick, or has been to me before. But he's not unfair as far as I can tell. The others, I have no experience with.

Deja Thoris

South Africa646 Posts

April 24 2011 16:42 GMT

#514

On April 05 2011 06:53 tofucake wrote:

Hash punishment. Best punishment.

Sometimes mistypes turn out pretty awesomely.

saltywet

Hong Kong1316 Posts

April 27 2011 15:27 GMT

#515

my first ban came from calling some guy gushing over nony an asslicker

my second ban came from making a 3v3 starcraft thread in the brood war boards

i got my first warning 6 months later, can't find the thread but apparently i posted something in the SFW thread which makes it messy

i recently got a warning not using appropriate english including spelling out "you" and "you're" properly when i used "u" once in the whole post, inappropriate grammar and spelling and not making my post readable. but with the exception of capitalization, try to fault my english

yoonyoon

Korea (South)1065 Posts

April 27 2011 15:33 GMT

#516

On April 28 2011 00:27 saltywet wrote:
i recently got a warning not using appropriate english including spelling out "you" and "you're" properly when i used "u" once in the whole post, inappropriate grammar and spelling and not making my post readable. but with the exception of capitalization, try to fault my english

To be honest, I don't really get what you're trying to say here...

GxZ

United States375 Posts

April 27 2011 15:35 GMT

#517

Haven't been banned, not hard to not get banned.

Roffles