I don't really understand the logic behind reverting an edited post and then banning the person for it. Doesn't them editing it mean they actually acknowledge their mistake? Isn't that kind of the goal of moderating someone? Of course there might be cases where someone crosses the line so hard that an edit hardly changes the situation, but to see it happen to pretty average posts seems odd and counterproductive. This is a forum, not a court room.
The ban messages are very much intentionally vague so mods don't have to try and justify the absurdity. Permabanning a long standing member for a post so innocuous and then offering ZERO explanation other than "trust me this guy had it coming" is pretty much indefensible. I'm sure we will get no answers in this thread though since the entire point of this place is to tuck away any complaints because no one see this thread.
+1 on ban messages being so vague that they're useless.
I've actually submitted a ticket asking for more clarification on a ban. That ticket is almost a month old now with no updates.
They wanted Blame Space gone so they made him gone. A lot of ban messages just read like complete bullshit. WTF does it matter if BS was mildly cute with mods in the past in a totally unrelated way in regards to that garbage thread made by MIMIC? Literally what the hell is that ban? And to someone that has been such a long member of what remains of this community.
You could have taken the time to respond to the majority of reasonable users above who are asking for clearer moderation.
Instead, you chose to call-out the minority of comments in the posts above with a “heads up” threat/warning.
I know Kinthey has to play along to be effective but the rest of these people surely have to have noticed that the staff has been doing this for years now. The only actually enforced "rule" (not that it's written anywhere) is do not cross the staff in any way.
And as fatty told them, definitely do not criticize the staff anywhere as they aren't interested in your lies:
But some of y'all come in here, relitigate bans, unleash your aggression, and then wonder why you get ignored or threadbanned.
Police officers are granted qualified immunity, unless they know they are violating your rights they aren't liable for their behavior. Since on ResetERA.com you have no rights, the forum cops cannot violate your rights. Trying to make them liable by publicly criticizing their behavior violates
their rights. Violating the rights of cops gets you
shot banned. If people just stuck to productive discussion then nobody but trolls would have to get actioned so you have to ask yourself why would someone not stick to productive discussion if they weren't a troll?
The simple fact is that all these trolls libeling the staff in that thread want some kind of anarchy instead of the staff protecting a vulnerable community under constant siege by bad faith criminals. Everyone in that thread is pretty much announcing that they plan to troll in the future, yet it's the staff who will be criticized for acting to keep criminals off the streets.
