The Joys of Overzealous Moderators

[Admiral_Aorta]

Nice to know that shrapnel have no interest in maintaining a worthwhile, informative community for this game and prefer a sycophantic echo chamber that misinforms potential new players.

[PriestyMan]

The biggest joke of them all is that Crapnel will refer to their Terms and Agreement and say he messed up. but in them they have a detailed infraction system that includes infraction points (i know pyg got like 1 point once) and temporary bans before anyone is supposed to get perma-banned. Of course Crapnel has never once followed their own procedure. Just like in the Sombre thing, they just banned and didnt give a **** what their own rules were

[momfreeek]

I looked at the rules and this was clearly in bold on the first page

Originally Posted by Forum Rules

People who bait or bash members or mods may be banned without notice.

Sry, I don't want to stir. I only have an idle interest in this matter.

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally Posted by PriestyMan

The biggest joke of them all is that Crapnel will refer to their Terms and Agreement and say he messed up. but in them they have a detailed infraction system that includes infraction points (i know pyg got like 1 point once) and temporary bans before anyone is supposed to get perma-banned. Of course Crapnel has never once followed their own procedure. Just like in the Sombre thing, they just banned and didnt give a **** what their own rules were

Say rather that, just like in the Sombre thing, you and several others didn't understand the rules or, more probably, didn't want to understand the rules.

The forum has a detailed infraction system, yes. But this is not the only way to get banned, it is just a guaranteed way to get banned.

The very same section of the rules that contains the infraction system contains the following words, which you and other rules-lawyers usually ignore:

A permanent ban can be applied for any reason and at any time if the Admins determine it is warranted to promote the harmony of the community.

In other words, whether you like it or not, the rules are very clear on this issue. You can be banned for anything that is considered, at the sole discretion of the forum administration, to be detrimental to the community mood.

[Amhazair]

Originally Posted by Peter Ebbesen

The very same section of the rules that contains the infraction system contains the following words, which you and other rules-lawyers usually ignore:

In other words, whether you like it or not, the rules are very clear on this issue. You can be banned for anything that is considered, at the sole discretion of the forum administration, to be detrimental to the community mood.

Well, I certainly won't argue this point. I also won't argue that Calahan can be quite rude at times.

He's always right mind you, but he doesn't bother to be polite about it. (At least, he usually is frienly enough the first time he argues something, but loses patience when people disagree for unsound reasons.) So honestly, even though I like the guy, I can kinda see where the mods are comming from.

What I am upset about though is a genuninely helpful community member getting banned without a warning, nor being asked by anyone if he'd be willing to change his behaviour*, and at a time when he had actually consciously - and publicly - decided to stop bothering to argue with idiots (There, now even I have been tempted to call people names. Probably the first time in my entire internet career. I hope you're all proud of this achievement, because I doubt this will happen too often in like the history of the world ever and stuff.) and stick to helping (new) people with game settings and maps and the like.

* At least according to him nothing of the sort happened, and I'm inclined to trust him on this.

[ghoul31]

Originally Posted by Amhazair

I also won't argue that Calahan can be quite rude at times.

Yea he was always making personal attacks against me. So i finally had to put him on ignore. So I can definitely see why he was banned.

[Amhazair]

Originally Posted by ghoul31

Yea he was always making personal attacks against me. So i finally had to put him on ignore. So I can definitely see why he was banned.

Good job on pulling that sentence completely out of its context. This exactly the kind Calahan called people out on, and exactly the reason many of the other best players with less perseverance have (partially) given up on trying to answer/help/give advice...

You can hardly open your mouth around these parts without some dumb schmuck (Or malevolent troll) ignoring what you said, arguing againt it pointlessly without a shred of evidence to back them up, pulling it out of context or otherwise over every effort to be helpful.

[Executor]

Originally Posted by Peter Ebbesen

Sorry, but I couldn't skip over this utter nonsense. And banning Calahan, one of the most contributing members of what is left of this degenerating forum is promoting harmony in which way exactly?
From what I see all you've managed to do is piss off a lot of people. You'll doubtlessly piss off even more when Strider, Anette or whoever shows up here to "promote some more harmony" I recon.
And that "harmony" will result in more people getting banned (maybe myself, soy, admiral aorta...) and more people leaving the forum.

[fungalreason]

Forums that are moderated in this manner make it extremely unlikely that I will choose to purchase future games that are affiliated with shrapnel or recommend them to others. Your customers deserve to be treated with more respect than this.

[Fantomen]

How come it's ok for people to be misinforming passive aggressive arrogant doubletounged selfimportant douchebags, but not ok for Calahan to call them out for it?