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brian
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States9629 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-11-17 15:32:35
November 17 2016 15:18 GMT
#56701
rip perm ban the dream
RoomOfMush
Profile Joined March 2015
1296 Posts
November 17 2016 16:01 GMT
#56702
If it was so bad that it had to be removed entirely, not just edited out by a mod but completely removed, why then was it only 2 weeks? That sounds fairly dubious.
Was he like drunk or on drugs or what?
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
November 17 2016 16:08 GMT
#56703
On November 18 2016 00:18 brian wrote:
rip perm ban the dream

I'm sure that eventually down the line, if he continues posting such comments, one of the mods with just perm him.
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19144 Posts
November 17 2016 17:01 GMT
#56704
On November 18 2016 01:01 RoomOfMush wrote:
If it was so bad that it had to be removed entirely, not just edited out by a mod but completely removed, why then was it only 2 weeks? That sounds fairly dubious.
Was he like drunk or on drugs or what?

People can be banned for posts in forums you can't see, PMs, or just because it's been collectively decided by the mod team that a person is terrible, as well as for things not even on TL, like other social media posts. What caused his ban may very well exist, but you just aren't looking in the right place, or maybe you can't see it at all.
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Diabolique
Profile Joined June 2015
Czech Republic5118 Posts
November 17 2016 17:51 GMT
#56705
On November 16 2016 19:53 opisska wrote:
I think someone with an implied german accent, screamingly obvious lack of sense of humor and undefeated inability for basic arithmetic is soon gonna tell you to take it to website feedback, but I must at least note that I was expecting you to have been banned for something more juicy. Blizzcon was lame without you!

That would be in the case, if I asked whether my ban was justified. But I was not asking. I was saying, it was not justified. And if anyone disagreed with me, then I would have to be banned properly, because I would call that person being an idiot. But I do not think, any such idiot exists.

On November 16 2016 21:05 Cascade wrote:
Well that ties nicely into the discussion about length of a post.

Mods have been taking a lot about context and post history lately. The post your quote seems harmless enough, but I assume there's more to it than just someone's amusement. What was your ban note? Did you send hate mail to kbb begging to be freed? And at that point, as opisska says, we are approaching forum feedback material.

(I'm not German, and I know basic arithmetics. Sense of humour can be discussed I guess.)

No, there was nothing else. I just wrote this message and got banned.

On November 16 2016 22:43 tofucake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2016 19:39 Diabolique wrote:
I used to be a fan of Neeb. When he was playing at the KeSPA cup, I was really happy, when he won. Don't misunderstand me - I am still against the ban on Koreans from international tournaments, but this does not prevent me from being happy for a decent, humble, hard working foreigner winning against Koreans. Exactly the opposite. My favorite moments from all SC2 history were when Snute has beaten two recent GSL and SSL champions at IEM.

When Neeb won the KeSPA cup, there were many people whining about balance and about Neeb winning only because he switched from Terran to Protoss. I did nothing of that as I am not a balance whiner and in general, as long as there are winners from all three races in big tournaments, I am fine with the balance. To be honest, I was surprised that the moderators did not ban these people, but as I am not a friend of banning people, I did not care. I was just happy for Neeb.

I was surfing through the news looking at what articles had new comments. To my suprise, there was a new comment at the article "Becoming God" about Flash. "What is that?" was I asking myself, "why does someone comment something about Flash in the moment of a great victory of Neeb?" Or is it a new article about Neeb and they accidentally used the same name for it? There were already a few articles celebrating Neeb's victory in the news, so maybe, this was the "God no. 2" article. So I looked inside and realized, it was just someone posting that he does not play BW, but likes this kind of article about Flash. I still thought about the funny moment when I thought that someone actually wrote an article celebrating Neeb "becoming god" and decided to "make a joke" and I wrote:
On October 04 2016 07:21 Diabolique wrote:
I did not read it, but - is it again something about Neeb? :-)

User was temp banned for this post.


I respect the most TeamLiquid authors, administrators and moderators. Unfortunately, the fact that there are individuals among them, who do not follow any TeamLiquid rules and ban people (who have not broken a single rule) for their personal amusement, is very disturbing.

For myself, the fact, that some idiot can come and ban me for no reason, completely killed my passion for StarCraft 2 and any willingness to discuss anything at the TeamLiquid. I would understand that, if TeamLiquid was a personal page of that idiot, where he could delete / remove anything, he does not like. But TeamLiquid page is (at least pretending to be) a community site related to the StarCraft 2 scene. It is even much worse, when this happens in a moment, when our favorite game is dying, teams disbanding, game being removed from tournaments ...

Is it really the goal of TeamLiquid to kill interest and passion for StarCraft 2? If yes, then OK, my fault, I just misunderstood the purpose. If not, I would be interested, if you do have any procedures in place for banning incompetent moderators from their powers (in this case MoonBear).



Lots of effort goes into making TLFE articles, and for someone to post "didn't read it" and a joke that, total, adds up to about half a line, is really disrespectful. For many mods, posts like that break commandments 2 and 4. And now you're posting "I respect the most TeamLiquid authors, administrators and moderators" followed shortly by "For myself, the fact, that some idiot can come and ban me for no reason" shows that your previous statement was false.

Sorry, I disagree. If anyone bans me because I wrote in my comment that I did not read his article, then I really do not respect him and consider him being an idiot. But primarily, incompetent moderator.



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dAPhREAk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Nauru12397 Posts
November 17 2016 18:03 GMT
#56706
are you not responding to moonbear because his post is too long too? lol.

that signature. you are not long for this world.
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
November 17 2016 18:04 GMT
#56707
On November 18 2016 02:51 Diabolique wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2016 22:43 tofucake wrote:
On November 16 2016 19:39 Diabolique wrote:
I used to be a fan of Neeb. When he was playing at the KeSPA cup, I was really happy, when he won. Don't misunderstand me - I am still against the ban on Koreans from international tournaments, but this does not prevent me from being happy for a decent, humble, hard working foreigner winning against Koreans. Exactly the opposite. My favorite moments from all SC2 history were when Snute has beaten two recent GSL and SSL champions at IEM.

When Neeb won the KeSPA cup, there were many people whining about balance and about Neeb winning only because he switched from Terran to Protoss. I did nothing of that as I am not a balance whiner and in general, as long as there are winners from all three races in big tournaments, I am fine with the balance. To be honest, I was surprised that the moderators did not ban these people, but as I am not a friend of banning people, I did not care. I was just happy for Neeb.

I was surfing through the news looking at what articles had new comments. To my suprise, there was a new comment at the article "Becoming God" about Flash. "What is that?" was I asking myself, "why does someone comment something about Flash in the moment of a great victory of Neeb?" Or is it a new article about Neeb and they accidentally used the same name for it? There were already a few articles celebrating Neeb's victory in the news, so maybe, this was the "God no. 2" article. So I looked inside and realized, it was just someone posting that he does not play BW, but likes this kind of article about Flash. I still thought about the funny moment when I thought that someone actually wrote an article celebrating Neeb "becoming god" and decided to "make a joke" and I wrote:
On October 04 2016 07:21 Diabolique wrote:
I did not read it, but - is it again something about Neeb? :-)

User was temp banned for this post.


I respect the most TeamLiquid authors, administrators and moderators. Unfortunately, the fact that there are individuals among them, who do not follow any TeamLiquid rules and ban people (who have not broken a single rule) for their personal amusement, is very disturbing.

For myself, the fact, that some idiot can come and ban me for no reason, completely killed my passion for StarCraft 2 and any willingness to discuss anything at the TeamLiquid. I would understand that, if TeamLiquid was a personal page of that idiot, where he could delete / remove anything, he does not like. But TeamLiquid page is (at least pretending to be) a community site related to the StarCraft 2 scene. It is even much worse, when this happens in a moment, when our favorite game is dying, teams disbanding, game being removed from tournaments ...

Is it really the goal of TeamLiquid to kill interest and passion for StarCraft 2? If yes, then OK, my fault, I just misunderstood the purpose. If not, I would be interested, if you do have any procedures in place for banning incompetent moderators from their powers (in this case MoonBear).



Lots of effort goes into making TLFE articles, and for someone to post "didn't read it" and a joke that, total, adds up to about half a line, is really disrespectful. For many mods, posts like that break commandments 2 and 4. And now you're posting "I respect the most TeamLiquid authors, administrators and moderators" followed shortly by "For myself, the fact, that some idiot can come and ban me for no reason" shows that your previous statement was false.

Sorry, I disagree. If anyone bans me because I wrote in my comment that I did not read his article, then I really do not respect him and consider him being an idiot. But primarily, incompetent moderator.

Seeing as you must've missed Moonbear's post, I decided to help you out and quoted it below:
On November 17 2016 08:22 MoonBear wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2016 19:39 Diabolique wrote:
[...]

Is it really the goal of TeamLiquid to kill interest and passion for StarCraft 2? If yes, then OK, my fault, I just misunderstood the purpose. If not, I would be interested, if you do have any procedures in place for banning incompetent moderators from their powers (in this case MoonBear).

I normally don't deign to reply to things like this because it's a waste of my time but sure, I'll take the bait this time.

Firstly, don't play the sympathy card and try to claim you're just some poor fan who's being oppressed by me. Since you joined TL last year you've been mod actioned 11 times before I temp banned you for being an aggressive shitposter. This isn't me picking on you seeing as quite a few other people seem to agree.

Secondly, you're right, we are a community site. And we believe that everyone's better off when the community isn't full of shit. You might disagree. That's okay! You can go somewhere else then.

Thirdly, you try to portray yourself as just some passionate dude who was trying to make a funny post. Multiple mod actions for being incredibly aggressive, trying to start fights, and insulting people says otherwise. When someone has a history of not knowing how to use a toilet properly, when they take a dump on your sofa it's not some performance art or comedy routine. They're just an asshole.

Fourthly, you claim to be a poor soul who's just concerned about the health of SC2 and try to use the emotional image of the game dying to show how much you love it. And yet somehow you can't be bothered to show any respect for the very same community you claim to uphold by disrespecting the hard work of the dedicated volunteers who write these articles. They've probably done more for this scene than you ever will. And again, you can't claim this was a joke when you have a history of shitposting. Or maybe you just have a really crappy sense of humour. "Why is the community in peril when shitposters like me make the experience worse for others?" Hm I wonder.

Look, I don't like banning people. Even for people where there's a consensus they should have been perma banned, I'll still temp ban them instead. To me, a temp ban isn't a punishment. It's the moderators trying to perform an intervention. If you're being temp banned, it's because you've already had multiple warnings about shitposting but you've clearly ignored them. And now we're performing this intervention because we think you need to stop and take a time out. You need to step away from the keyboard and think about how you're coming across to other people.

If I wanted to get my jollies off there's a ton of more interesting shit I could do. Being a moderator's honestly a pretty dull and boring thing to do. Dealing with PMs, talking to people privately about how they could be a better poster, talking to other mods to negotiate reductions in people's bans because you think they're reforming, listening to people and asking to have your ban reversed cause you've reconsidered the issues, this shit is all boring. I could be, like, playing actual computer games or something. That stuff is pretty fun.

But I mean hey. Maybe I'm reading too much into this. Maybe I'm giving you too much of the benefit of the doubt. Maybe I got baited by the really low quality troll. Congrats, you got me! But if you're actually serious about not having a clue about why you got banned then hopefully this gives you some insight into how to stop shitposting.

Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
Valiver
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Caldeum1977 Posts
November 17 2016 18:05 GMT
#56708
Personally I think anyone who posts "I didn't read" should be at least warned. That's incredibly disrespectful to whatever the thread is and if you didn't read, why did you post? Makes no sense.
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VayneAuthority
Profile Joined October 2012
United States8983 Posts
November 17 2016 18:19 GMT
#56709
I also feel disrespected when I am lumped in with people that post TL DR but respect is only valued by those that hold the power.

I am still highly amused at taking a 90 day ban so a moderator could post a meme but what ya gonna do.
I come in for the scraps
brian
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States9629 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-11-17 18:23:29
November 17 2016 18:20 GMT
#56710
On November 18 2016 02:51 Diabolique wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2016 19:53 opisska wrote:
I think someone with an implied german accent, screamingly obvious lack of sense of humor and undefeated inability for basic arithmetic is soon gonna tell you to take it to website feedback, but I must at least note that I was expecting you to have been banned for something more juicy. Blizzcon was lame without you!

That would be in the case, if I asked whether my ban was justified. But I was not asking. I was saying, it was not justified. And if anyone disagreed with me, then I would have to be banned properly, because I would call that person being an idiot. But I do not think, any such idiot exists.

Show nested quote +
On November 16 2016 21:05 Cascade wrote:
Well that ties nicely into the discussion about length of a post.

Mods have been taking a lot about context and post history lately. The post your quote seems harmless enough, but I assume there's more to it than just someone's amusement. What was your ban note? Did you send hate mail to kbb begging to be freed? And at that point, as opisska says, we are approaching forum feedback material.

(I'm not German, and I know basic arithmetics. Sense of humour can be discussed I guess.)

No, there was nothing else. I just wrote this message and got banned.

Show nested quote +
On November 16 2016 22:43 tofucake wrote:
On November 16 2016 19:39 Diabolique wrote:
I used to be a fan of Neeb. When he was playing at the KeSPA cup, I was really happy, when he won. Don't misunderstand me - I am still against the ban on Koreans from international tournaments, but this does not prevent me from being happy for a decent, humble, hard working foreigner winning against Koreans. Exactly the opposite. My favorite moments from all SC2 history were when Snute has beaten two recent GSL and SSL champions at IEM.

When Neeb won the KeSPA cup, there were many people whining about balance and about Neeb winning only because he switched from Terran to Protoss. I did nothing of that as I am not a balance whiner and in general, as long as there are winners from all three races in big tournaments, I am fine with the balance. To be honest, I was surprised that the moderators did not ban these people, but as I am not a friend of banning people, I did not care. I was just happy for Neeb.

I was surfing through the news looking at what articles had new comments. To my suprise, there was a new comment at the article "Becoming God" about Flash. "What is that?" was I asking myself, "why does someone comment something about Flash in the moment of a great victory of Neeb?" Or is it a new article about Neeb and they accidentally used the same name for it? There were already a few articles celebrating Neeb's victory in the news, so maybe, this was the "God no. 2" article. So I looked inside and realized, it was just someone posting that he does not play BW, but likes this kind of article about Flash. I still thought about the funny moment when I thought that someone actually wrote an article celebrating Neeb "becoming god" and decided to "make a joke" and I wrote:
On October 04 2016 07:21 Diabolique wrote:
I did not read it, but - is it again something about Neeb? :-)

User was temp banned for this post.


I respect the most TeamLiquid authors, administrators and moderators. Unfortunately, the fact that there are individuals among them, who do not follow any TeamLiquid rules and ban people (who have not broken a single rule) for their personal amusement, is very disturbing.

For myself, the fact, that some idiot can come and ban me for no reason, completely killed my passion for StarCraft 2 and any willingness to discuss anything at the TeamLiquid. I would understand that, if TeamLiquid was a personal page of that idiot, where he could delete / remove anything, he does not like. But TeamLiquid page is (at least pretending to be) a community site related to the StarCraft 2 scene. It is even much worse, when this happens in a moment, when our favorite game is dying, teams disbanding, game being removed from tournaments ...

Is it really the goal of TeamLiquid to kill interest and passion for StarCraft 2? If yes, then OK, my fault, I just misunderstood the purpose. If not, I would be interested, if you do have any procedures in place for banning incompetent moderators from their powers (in this case MoonBear).



Lots of effort goes into making TLFE articles, and for someone to post "didn't read it" and a joke that, total, adds up to about half a line, is really disrespectful. For many mods, posts like that break commandments 2 and 4. And now you're posting "I respect the most TeamLiquid authors, administrators and moderators" followed shortly by "For myself, the fact, that some idiot can come and ban me for no reason" shows that your previous statement was false.

Sorry, I disagree. If anyone bans me because I wrote in my comment that I did not read his article, then I really do not respect him and consider him being an idiot. But primarily, incompetent moderator.





hey i didn't bother to read any of this but i think you're an idiot.

jk though, i really did read it. unfortunately disagreeing (i'm looking just at that last bit here)doesn't make you right and him wrong. and doubly unfortunate is that you're just wrong.

hmm lastly this isn't website feedback..
farvacola
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States18835 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-11-17 18:28:17
November 17 2016 18:28 GMT
#56711
Never change Gene

Edit: damnit Gene
"when the Dead Kennedys found out they had skinhead fans, they literally wrote a song titled 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off'"
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19144 Posts
November 17 2016 18:54 GMT
#56712
On November 18 2016 02:51 Diabolique wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2016 19:53 opisska wrote:
I think someone with an implied german accent, screamingly obvious lack of sense of humor and undefeated inability for basic arithmetic is soon gonna tell you to take it to website feedback, but I must at least note that I was expecting you to have been banned for something more juicy. Blizzcon was lame without you!

That would be in the case, if I asked whether my ban was justified. But I was not asking. I was saying, it was not justified. And if anyone disagreed with me, then I would have to be banned properly, because I would call that person being an idiot. But I do not think, any such idiot exists.

Show nested quote +
On November 16 2016 21:05 Cascade wrote:
Well that ties nicely into the discussion about length of a post.

Mods have been taking a lot about context and post history lately. The post your quote seems harmless enough, but I assume there's more to it than just someone's amusement. What was your ban note? Did you send hate mail to kbb begging to be freed? And at that point, as opisska says, we are approaching forum feedback material.

(I'm not German, and I know basic arithmetics. Sense of humour can be discussed I guess.)

No, there was nothing else. I just wrote this message and got banned.

Show nested quote +
On November 16 2016 22:43 tofucake wrote:
On November 16 2016 19:39 Diabolique wrote:
I used to be a fan of Neeb. When he was playing at the KeSPA cup, I was really happy, when he won. Don't misunderstand me - I am still against the ban on Koreans from international tournaments, but this does not prevent me from being happy for a decent, humble, hard working foreigner winning against Koreans. Exactly the opposite. My favorite moments from all SC2 history were when Snute has beaten two recent GSL and SSL champions at IEM.

When Neeb won the KeSPA cup, there were many people whining about balance and about Neeb winning only because he switched from Terran to Protoss. I did nothing of that as I am not a balance whiner and in general, as long as there are winners from all three races in big tournaments, I am fine with the balance. To be honest, I was surprised that the moderators did not ban these people, but as I am not a friend of banning people, I did not care. I was just happy for Neeb.

I was surfing through the news looking at what articles had new comments. To my suprise, there was a new comment at the article "Becoming God" about Flash. "What is that?" was I asking myself, "why does someone comment something about Flash in the moment of a great victory of Neeb?" Or is it a new article about Neeb and they accidentally used the same name for it? There were already a few articles celebrating Neeb's victory in the news, so maybe, this was the "God no. 2" article. So I looked inside and realized, it was just someone posting that he does not play BW, but likes this kind of article about Flash. I still thought about the funny moment when I thought that someone actually wrote an article celebrating Neeb "becoming god" and decided to "make a joke" and I wrote:
On October 04 2016 07:21 Diabolique wrote:
I did not read it, but - is it again something about Neeb? :-)

User was temp banned for this post.


I respect the most TeamLiquid authors, administrators and moderators. Unfortunately, the fact that there are individuals among them, who do not follow any TeamLiquid rules and ban people (who have not broken a single rule) for their personal amusement, is very disturbing.

For myself, the fact, that some idiot can come and ban me for no reason, completely killed my passion for StarCraft 2 and any willingness to discuss anything at the TeamLiquid. I would understand that, if TeamLiquid was a personal page of that idiot, where he could delete / remove anything, he does not like. But TeamLiquid page is (at least pretending to be) a community site related to the StarCraft 2 scene. It is even much worse, when this happens in a moment, when our favorite game is dying, teams disbanding, game being removed from tournaments ...

Is it really the goal of TeamLiquid to kill interest and passion for StarCraft 2? If yes, then OK, my fault, I just misunderstood the purpose. If not, I would be interested, if you do have any procedures in place for banning incompetent moderators from their powers (in this case MoonBear).



Lots of effort goes into making TLFE articles, and for someone to post "didn't read it" and a joke that, total, adds up to about half a line, is really disrespectful. For many mods, posts like that break commandments 2 and 4. And now you're posting "I respect the most TeamLiquid authors, administrators and moderators" followed shortly by "For myself, the fact, that some idiot can come and ban me for no reason" shows that your previous statement was false.

Sorry, I disagree. If anyone bans me because I wrote in my comment that I did not read his article, then I really do not respect him and consider him being an idiot. But primarily, incompetent moderator.

You weren't banned by anyone involved in the article at all. You were banned by someone else entirely because you suck at posting.
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Dangermousecatdog
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom7084 Posts
November 17 2016 19:25 GMT
#56713
On November 18 2016 02:01 tofucake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 18 2016 01:01 RoomOfMush wrote:
If it was so bad that it had to be removed entirely, not just edited out by a mod but completely removed, why then was it only 2 weeks? That sounds fairly dubious.
Was he like drunk or on drugs or what?

People can be banned for posts in forums you can't see, PMs, or just because it's been collectively decided by the mod team that a person is terrible, as well as for things not even on TL, like other social media posts. What caused his ban may very well exist, but you just aren't looking in the right place, or maybe you can't see it at all.
You can be banned for social media posts? How does that even work? More to the point, why?
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
November 17 2016 19:29 GMT
#56714
On November 18 2016 04:25 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 18 2016 02:01 tofucake wrote:
On November 18 2016 01:01 RoomOfMush wrote:
If it was so bad that it had to be removed entirely, not just edited out by a mod but completely removed, why then was it only 2 weeks? That sounds fairly dubious.
Was he like drunk or on drugs or what?

People can be banned for posts in forums you can't see, PMs, or just because it's been collectively decided by the mod team that a person is terrible, as well as for things not even on TL, like other social media posts. What caused his ban may very well exist, but you just aren't looking in the right place, or maybe you can't see it at all.
You can be banned for social media posts? How does that even work? More to the point, why?


We should go around the interwebz and snitch on TL posters regarding their non-approved extra-TL activities.
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TheNewEra
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany3128 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-11-17 19:36:28
November 17 2016 19:32 GMT
#56715
On November 18 2016 04:25 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
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On November 18 2016 02:01 tofucake wrote:
On November 18 2016 01:01 RoomOfMush wrote:
If it was so bad that it had to be removed entirely, not just edited out by a mod but completely removed, why then was it only 2 weeks? That sounds fairly dubious.
Was he like drunk or on drugs or what?

People can be banned for posts in forums you can't see, PMs, or just because it's been collectively decided by the mod team that a person is terrible, as well as for things not even on TL, like other social media posts. What caused his ban may very well exist, but you just aren't looking in the right place, or maybe you can't see it at all.
You can be banned for social media posts? How does that even work? More to the point, why?

Isn't that what happened to Amazingxkcd in the end? For proclaiming his 'interesting' political views on Social Media?
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dAPhREAk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Nauru12397 Posts
November 17 2016 19:34 GMT
#56716
On November 18 2016 04:25 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 18 2016 02:01 tofucake wrote:
On November 18 2016 01:01 RoomOfMush wrote:
If it was so bad that it had to be removed entirely, not just edited out by a mod but completely removed, why then was it only 2 weeks? That sounds fairly dubious.
Was he like drunk or on drugs or what?

People can be banned for posts in forums you can't see, PMs, or just because it's been collectively decided by the mod team that a person is terrible, as well as for things not even on TL, like other social media posts. What caused his ban may very well exist, but you just aren't looking in the right place, or maybe you can't see it at all.
You can be banned for social media posts? How does that even work? More to the point, why?

probably a reference to the dude who represented he was a tl admin/mod elsewhere.
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
November 17 2016 19:34 GMT
#56717
On November 18 2016 04:25 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
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On November 18 2016 02:01 tofucake wrote:
On November 18 2016 01:01 RoomOfMush wrote:
If it was so bad that it had to be removed entirely, not just edited out by a mod but completely removed, why then was it only 2 weeks? That sounds fairly dubious.
Was he like drunk or on drugs or what?

People can be banned for posts in forums you can't see, PMs, or just because it's been collectively decided by the mod team that a person is terrible, as well as for things not even on TL, like other social media posts. What caused his ban may very well exist, but you just aren't looking in the right place, or maybe you can't see it at all.
You can be banned for social media posts? How does that even work? More to the point, why?


There was that guy who claimed he was Team Liquid affiliated to deceive people to join his website. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/tl-community/435280-the-tale-of-irninja-aka-freelancer
Sn0_Man
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
Tebellong44238 Posts
November 17 2016 19:37 GMT
#56718
On November 18 2016 04:32 TheNewEra wrote:
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On November 18 2016 04:25 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
On November 18 2016 02:01 tofucake wrote:
On November 18 2016 01:01 RoomOfMush wrote:
If it was so bad that it had to be removed entirely, not just edited out by a mod but completely removed, why then was it only 2 weeks? That sounds fairly dubious.
Was he like drunk or on drugs or what?

People can be banned for posts in forums you can't see, PMs, or just because it's been collectively decided by the mod team that a person is terrible, as well as for things not even on TL, like other social media posts. What caused his ban may very well exist, but you just aren't looking in the right place, or maybe you can't see it at all.
You can be banned for social media posts? How does that even work? More to the point, why?

Isn't that what happened to Amazingxkcd in the end? For proclaiming his 'interesting' political views on Social Media?

no he requested a ban
he was destaffed for that among other things though
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Jaaaaasper
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
United States10225 Posts
November 17 2016 19:59 GMT
#56719
To go back to Testie, he and Idra are the most blatant examples of being good at bw let you get away with just about anything and that lasts for years.
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Diabolique
Profile Joined June 2015
Czech Republic5118 Posts
November 17 2016 20:48 GMT
#56720
On November 17 2016 08:22 MoonBear wrote:
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On November 16 2016 19:39 Diabolique wrote:
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Is it really the goal of TeamLiquid to kill interest and passion for StarCraft 2? If yes, then OK, my fault, I just misunderstood the purpose. If not, I would be interested, if you do have any procedures in place for banning incompetent moderators from their powers (in this case MoonBear).

I normally don't deign to reply to things like this because it's a waste of my time but sure, I'll take the bait this time.

Firstly, don't play the sympathy card and try to claim you're just some poor fan who's being oppressed by me. Since you joined TL last year you've been mod actioned 11 times before I temp banned you for being an aggressive shitposter. This isn't me picking on you seeing as quite a few other people seem to agree.

Secondly, you're right, we are a community site. And we believe that everyone's better off when the community isn't full of shit. You might disagree. That's okay! You can go somewhere else then.

Thirdly, you try to portray yourself as just some passionate dude who was trying to make a funny post. Multiple mod actions for being incredibly aggressive, trying to start fights, and insulting people says otherwise. When someone has a history of not knowing how to use a toilet properly, when they take a dump on your sofa it's not some performance art or comedy routine. They're just an asshole.

Fourthly, you claim to be a poor soul who's just concerned about the health of SC2 and try to use the emotional image of the game dying to show how much you love it. And yet somehow you can't be bothered to show any respect for the very same community you claim to uphold by disrespecting the hard work of the dedicated volunteers who write these articles. They've probably done more for this scene than you ever will. And again, you can't claim this was a joke when you have a history of shitposting. Or maybe you just have a really crappy sense of humour. "Why is the community in peril when shitposters like me make the experience worse for others?" Hm I wonder.

Look, I don't like banning people. Even for people where there's a consensus they should have been perma banned, I'll still temp ban them instead. To me, a temp ban isn't a punishment. It's the moderators trying to perform an intervention. If you're being temp banned, it's because you've already had multiple warnings about shitposting but you've clearly ignored them. And now we're performing this intervention because we think you need to stop and take a time out. You need to step away from the keyboard and think about how you're coming across to other people.

If I wanted to get my jollies off there's a ton of more interesting shit I could do. Being a moderator's honestly a pretty dull and boring thing to do. Dealing with PMs, talking to people privately about how they could be a better poster, talking to other mods to negotiate reductions in people's bans because you think they're reforming, listening to people and asking to have your ban reversed cause you've reconsidered the issues, this shit is all boring. I could be, like, playing actual computer games or something. That stuff is pretty fun.

But I mean hey. Maybe I'm reading too much into this. Maybe I'm giving you too much of the benefit of the doubt. Maybe I got baited by the really low quality troll. Congrats, you got me! But if you're actually serious about not having a clue about why you got banned then hopefully this gives you some insight into how to stop shitposting.

A nice try, but sorry, it is all just bullshit.

You are calling me an aggressive shitposter and you are not banned for it, so I hope, I will not be banned for calling you an aggressive shitmoderator.

I do not consider myself being a shitposter. I understand, it must be disturbing for some people to see someone else being more intelligent than they are. Like when I calmly and rationally explained in my posts why the only viable way for Korean SC2 will be disbanding Korean teams and dismissing all the TOP players. I did this several weeks before it actually happened and was "crucified" for it and labelled as "doomsayer". I actually believe, this was the real reason, why you have banned me.

I was banned 5 times in my year and half here. The list of my bans is:
- 1x banned after expressing mildly unpolitely about Russia, which is linked to my country history with Russia (hard, but OK ban, I did not protest).
- 1x banned in the discussion after the announcement of the ban of Koreans from international tournaments, against which I strongly protested (OK ban).
- 1x banned for multiple posting, when I did not know that when I answer to 4 different people, I should not answer to them individually in 4 different posts, but put it into one post (after I learnt it, I never did it again).
- 1x banned in the discussion about the ban of Koreans from international tournaments, where all people were full of hatred against Blizzard, "shitposting" against anything what Blizzard was and is doing, and I felt, it was too much and wanted to "protect" Blizzard a bit and as I know from negotiation techniques that you win the best support of a group of people, whose opinion you want to change, when you show at the beginning, that you are part of their group with the same opinion, so I wrote a post saying "Fuck WCS, fuck Blizzard, but we need to be reasonable, Blizzard is trying to do what is the best, we do not know everything, maybe the tournament organizers were threatening to remove SC2 completely from their tournaments and this was the only chance for Blizzard to keep it in, Blizzard is not the enemy ... bla bla bla ...", but a moderator took just the first 4 words from my post and banned me for a week (obviously, I cannot complain about this, although he banned me for a positive, good post, just introduced by these 4 words).
- 1x banned in a thread about Lilbow playing Overwatch, when I wrote that maybe, when everyone thinks, he is playing Overwatch, he can secretly practice SC2 and become good again (this ban was a mistake of another moderator, but there was at least some previous communication and we solved it in a funny way, when I made fun of him at this Automated ban thread)

On November 17 2016 08:22 MoonBear wrote:
Multiple mod actions for being incredibly aggressive, trying to start fights, and insulting people says otherwise. When someone has a history of not knowing how to use a toilet properly, when they take a dump on your sofa it's not some performance art or comedy routine. They're just an asshole.

This is my favorite part :-) Well, I do not think, that the list of bans above makes me a shitposter, or even an "incredibly aggressive, trying to start fights and insult people". I actually believe, that the fact that you are writing it, is a nice proof of you being a true shitmoderator. Except of the obvious fact that I am insulting you. There you are correct, but you fully deserve it.

It is nice that you are giving me advice to go to discuss to other community sites, or even to my toilet. Don't worry, as I mentioned in my post, your ban took away all my passion for SC2 and any interest to discuss at TL. But the problem is not my quote saying that "I did not read the Flash article" (which I have actually read, even when Flash is not my favorite). The problem is your misuse of power. I believe, it will be a much better contribution to this TeamLiquid forum, if you go to moderate some other sites, eventually your own toilet.

But even when we forget all this, correct me, if I am wrong - did you mean by your post that WHEN YOU PERSONALLY CONSIDER SOMEONE BEING A "SHITPOSTER", then YOU ARE ALLOWED TO BAN HIM WHENEVER YOU WANT FOR WHATEVER REASON YOU LIKE? Because if this is your understanding, then the problem is much bigger than making once a mistake with an unjustified ban due to your poor judgement.

I wanted to end my post with writing that I insist on an "impeachment process" about removing you from the moderator function. I wanted to write "It is nothing personal, so please, don't have any hard feelings, I just don't like when incompetent people have powers above their skills." But then I finished reading end of your post, and I see, you are a reasonable guy, I actually do not care if you are or are not a moderator, I personally would never accept such a role anyway, so good that anyone is willing to do that.

By my post, I just wanted to express my feeling. I really liked SC2, I liked TL forums, I was (very reasonably) discussing topics related to it. And then, in one moment, from the thin air - BOOM! I got banned. FOR NOTHING!!! Completely unjustly. So I sat there, based on someone's wrong evaluation of the situation, I didn't have any chance to protest, I didn't have any chance to sue you at court, I didn't have any chance to fight against misuse of power, to fight for "my rights". The only thing, I felt in that moment, was frustration and helplessness. My reaction was that I made sure to never again in my life whitelist TL in my adblocker, but more important, I lost the interest to have anything to do with TL forums and following SC2. Why being part of a community, where incompetent people can punish you for nothing.

And I got the idea that maybe, I am not the first and last person with these feelings after an unjust ban. So I wanted to start this discussion. Maybe, TL should introduce somewhere one thread, where the people, who were just banned, could protest, explain, ask for verification, and eventually immediately be unbanned. The biggest moderator errors could be immediately solved and some extensively aggressive people even there could be permabanned.
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