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Baltimore, USA22260 Posts
On December 06 2011 02:37 CurLy[] wrote:Show nested quote +On December 06 2011 02:27 Chef wrote:
I don't mind the idea of banning people for people assholes on forums, but I think it's stupid to have automated bans or bans for swearing. If anything is going to be automated it should be approved by a human being before the ban goes thru. If you're going to ban people for swearing you should just not sell video games with swearing because it's soooo offensive.
Sounds like team liquid. Swearing is bad children.
We don't ban for swearing. Hell, I think everyone staff curses like a sailor. Typically the reason you see people banned with swearing in their posts though is because they're directing at someone. There is a difference between "Ugh, I played so fucking bad that game" and "God, you're so fucking retarded". See the difference? Usually one will get you a warning/ban, one will not. We don't cater to kids, we just want people to act respectful.
EDIT - and on that note, I looked up your posting history because I tasted something of personal bias in the air. I'm glad I wasn't disappointed, you have many warnings/bans for being a complete asshole. If you think ANY of your bans had something to do with the cursing in those posts as well, you're completely missing the reasons why you were banned.
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Good thing I don't buy EA games, and never will. This just further explains why. It's been happening to awhile too, this is nothing new.
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Banning someone because someone else wrote their username in a post that also contained profanity... that's pretty really bad.
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Is it possible to retract my purchase on BF3?
Seriously though, this is like a meth lab. It's stupid, dangerous and immoral and is most likely going to blow up in their face.
Stuff like this doesn't fly.
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On December 06 2011 05:15 Endymion wrote:
lol i posted on the EA BF3 forums and got banned for 3 days from BF3's beta.. Although to be fair my thread was titled "MW3>BF3" and the actual post was a link to the nada's body thread..
You deserve a cookie and an award for the effort.
Also the first thing I thought of was this image:
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I didn't think it was physically possible that my opinion of EA can sink even lower...
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And this kids... is why we pirate and we don't fell good about it or give it a second thought if its an EA game
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I've read the first couple pages, and it seems that people have missed that the person who WAS banned didn't even do ANYTHING wrong, it was just that someone else had posted a swear word with his name in that post... this makes it much more ridiculous- people really need to do something about
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Hmm, so I did a little test today and the results are quite sad....
I made 5 Origin accounts all useless shells, I went to the forums put some hateful things in them with all the names of my accounts created. Guess what guys....All 5 are banned for 72 hours over only one of them posting.....EA's system seems to be fully automated either that or the mods on the EA servers are fucking idiots.
This makes me fearful that some random troll could just spam Origin accounts and then get so many people banned soooo easily... It took me 10 mins tops to make all 5 ghost accounts and with 1 account posting with the others names in them they all get banned.. And I changed my IP before I set up each account so I am just confused at what the fuck EA is thinking.
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It's like they're forcibly instituting a boycott on their own game. Makes 0 sense, except in light of the fact that a huge number of fans are unconcerned that they're behaving this way.
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Canada11592 Posts
I personally don't like it when people swear... but this is insane. I can see being banned from your game if you are hacking to defeat other people or to ruin other people's game experience. And I can see banning from the forums for being a jerk. But being banned from a game that you bought because of forum posts on a related website?
This would be yet another reason why I dislike games being dependent to online play and through a company's account (even something like Steam.) Even though it's very unlikely for me to be effected by such things, I would much prefer to own my game independent of a company's benevolence or lack thereof.
On December 06 2011 05:40 Nazarid wrote:
Hmm, so I did a little test today and the results are quite sad....
I made 5 Origin accounts all useless shells, I went to the forums put some hateful things in them with all the names of my accounts created. Guess what guys....All 5 are banned for 72 hours over only one of them posting.....EA's system seems to be fully automated either that or the mods on the EA servers are fucking idiots.
This makes me fearful that some random troll could just spam Origin accounts and then get so many people banned soooo easily... It took me 10 mins tops to make all 5 ghost accounts and with 1 account posting with the others names in them they all get banned.. And I changed my IP before I set up each account so I am just confused at what the fuck EA is thinking.
And this is truly insane. If some trolls figure this out...
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Yeah I've been pretty disappointed with EA over the years. While I'm not THAT surprised, I am pretty disappointed by EA.
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Baltimore, USA22260 Posts
On December 06 2011 05:40 Nazarid wrote:
Hmm, so I did a little test today and the results are quite sad....
I made 5 Origin accounts all useless shells, I went to the forums put some hateful things in them with all the names of my accounts created. Guess what guys....All 5 are banned for 72 hours over only one of them posting.....EA's system seems to be fully automated either that or the mods on the EA servers are fucking idiots.
This makes me fearful that some random troll could just spam Origin accounts and then get so many people banned soooo easily... It took me 10 mins tops to make all 5 ghost accounts and with 1 account posting with the others names in them they all get banned.. And I changed my IP before I set up each account so I am just confused at what the fuck EA is thinking.
Thats... such a glaring mistake that should not be made in 2011. (I'm going with the assumption that everything is fully automated)
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It's shit like this that makes people who would buy a game pirate it instead.
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Yes, all internet moderation is too heavy imo. On every website including TL.
We live in a world where we think its ok to just close/block/delete people and what they say, it isn't. But, as simple users, we have no real power over the websites we use or the programs we use, and in a world of fleeting digital content, more and more things are going to be "licensed" to us rather than sold. Today it's your EA account, what if it's your bank account tomorrow? What if your car or house keys only worked if you kept paying a bill? What if all your DVDs stopped working if you pirated even a single movie?
These are all things certain companies would LOVE to implement and the only reason they don't (besides technical ones) are that we wouldn't stand for it. Show EA you won't stand for this either.
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This is what happen when you knowingly link your games to publisher owned social forums.
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EA somehow manages to buy out some good developers but really, EA is in it for the money and it's a battle between EA and Ubisoft versus companies like Valve imo.
We'll see what happens.
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On December 06 2011 05:47 darkscream wrote:
Yes, all internet moderation is too heavy imo. On every website including TL.
We live in a world where we think its ok to just close/block/delete people and what they say, it isn't. But, as simple users, we have no real power over the websites we use or the programs we use, and in a world of fleeting digital content, more and more things are going to be "licensed" to us rather than sold. Today it's your EA account, what if it's your bank account tomorrow? What if your car or house keys only worked if you kept paying a bill? What if all your DVDs stopped working if you pirated even a single movie?
These are all things certain companies would LOVE to implement and the only reason they don't (besides technical ones) are that we wouldn't stand for it. Show EA you won't stand for this either.
This isn't America, this is TL's house. There's no free speech here (at least we're not entitled to it). Owners of private forums are more than welcome to censor all they want. The issue is not that EA censors it's forums, the issue that they rob their customers.
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If this is true, EA are pretty lame.
Banning users from their games because of forum posts is complete bullshit. Only in some strange, tyrannical mind could you justify such an extreme punishment for something so ridiculous.
+ Show Spoiler +"He said e-peen on the forums?! My god! Ban him from every game he's ever bought with an EA label!" - Random EA Douche
It's almost as if the people at EA don't actually play games themselves. They're like some puritan cult that makes sports games. They also moonlight as internet vigilantes, cutting the e-peens off gamers with sharp tongues.
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I'm hoping there's a class action lawsuit about to pop up. There is literally no way EA can defend blocking game/account access to people who weren't even guilty of violating forum "rules."
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