the cry babies enjoy posting their smack-talk on the forums,
the cry babies enjoy posting
Pfft, 3 day ban for breaking rules and you're all going ape-sh*t; I lol in your general direction.
Poop ( below-average skill level player, hangs back and vultures for kills too often, not sure why you love him so much but I digress... ) has a nasty habit of talking rubbish constantly- if he couldn't control his posting habits, or language, then he got what he was asking for ultimately. Hell, my original alpha-tester account got banned by the old dev team for nothing more than high-lighting problems with the game and the bad attitude of one of the team ( I'm glaring at you, [HWK]Vanishingkaku... ).
lol
If rules are actually being enforced now without granting individuals allowances for breaking them based on how prominent they are in the community, how is that a bad thing? I don't know what exactly happened, I don't really care, what's done is done. I can only wonder what new gamers must be thinking when they land on these forums to see this mess that's been splattered over the forum in response to what sounds like plain old bad behavior followed by more of the same.
Whereas these individuals had legitimate reason to post such threads (supporting PoopSlinger), and probably understood that moderation was going to happen, they did not expect at the level at which is was exacted - a 3 day suspension from the forums, a blanket punishment for all involved, even for those who were first offenders on the forums, both on the old and new. The issue arises from the 1. blanket punishment for even newly minted "cool point" aka warning points collectors 2. vague procedures on punishing violation of forum rules (like spamming). Good intentions, wrong execution from the get-go, and a punishment perceived as unjust and unfair.
It is to my belief that this could easily be solved just by deleting every single one of the threads and issuing a warning. That seems appropriate (to me) for first time offenders, and even for multiple warning point offenders, due to the frivolous nature of the posts and the intentions behind it. Except it wasn't handled like that. Everyone got sucker-punched in the face with a 3 day suspension. Mind you, these members are prominent because they are long tenured contributors to the forums and the game in general. They contribute. Pretty much the entire Hawken Teamspeak admin team was suspended. The Hawken subreddit moderator was suspended. The list goes on. These aren't run-of-the-mill average joes who were looking to prey upon these helpless forums with spam. These are, as you say, prominent community members for good reason. Perhaps it is seen as unjust to exact differing punishments to folks of different social status (in this game at least), but due to countless instances in which these suspended people essentially sustained the community and the game from the very beginning (dating back to 2012), perhaps a small amount of leniency could have been granted. A goodwill gesture, so to speak, but with warnings attached to it. Nobody, however, gets a "get of jail free" card I would think.
I understand that Tiggs has a job to do, and she did it. People feel as if it could be handled differently. Not in a way that there is no moderation, but different in the way of dishing out punishment. Perhaps a set procedure can be formulated and made public to define clearly how the community moderator/manager will conduct business.
Edited by Sriracha_Sauce, 06 November 2015 - 09:01 AM.
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