Ash
May 12th, 2014, 10:52 AM
It's been more or less a year since I was IP banned from these forums. I wanted to share what I've been doing to keep my mind off of reality. I honestly don't regret my actions on these forums because without the ban, I wouldn't have found a better, more mature community. You're probably thinking I'm not mature, but honestly everyone can be mature. Just not everyone wants to show it. In this community, just about everyone is immature because the moderators support immaturity. And honestly, I don't really care about this community anymore, but I'm dropping my two cents on this community because it was the first online community I've stuck for a while. This community is dying, and soon it's going to go to the stage where FalseTruth's "playmaf.com" was. If you honestly care about the future of these forums, you might as well read and at least take my point into consideration.
Ever since I was banned, I moved on to my normal internet adventure. Tiloup introduced me to a vanilla Minecraft server that he found interesting. But hold on. Before this, I was sometimes fooling around on Lysergic's Tekkit server. Sometimes I crashed the server by exploding a few dozen of nukes, convinced that Minecraft couldn't have gotten any better. So sometimes, I would end up being temporarily banned from the server by either Raptorblaze or Lysergic. After I hopped onto the server that Tiloup told me about, we griefed and did other stupid shit. (The community is pretty large by the way, usually there's 100+ players online, in the server.) The difference was, that we didn't get banned. We didn't get banned because the admins weren't immature pieces of power-hungry shit. They never kissed ass to become a moderator. They never donated to become a moderator. And no, they never roll-backed the server because it was the way it was meant to be. Moderators don't interfere with the community's actions because each individual member makes up a name for themselves. Instead, each griefer, each criminal scumbag is shunned upon by the rest of the community.
Moderators are only there to prevent extreme cases of doxxing, harassment, and hacking. Even though the community is settled on Reddit, doxxing is extremely rare, and harassment is minimum. The community's maturity outbalances the immaturity. Here in this community, it's completely opposite. (Or was, at least)
The difference on this community is that no one here respects/values moderators as the way they should be. There's way too many fucking rules that it makes it hard to respect the moderators. This ultimately transforms what's supposed to be a friendly environment into a class-struggle to become a moderator. Because seriously, the only way to get away with shit is by becoming a cocksucking moderator.
The forums isn't the problem, it's the goddamn moderators. Forums being split into multiple subforums, with different moderators moderating each different subforum was a good idea. But enforcing the rules so damn hard isn't fucking friendly. This factor encourages members of the forums to test the patience of moderators. How long does it take before they start abusing their powers? This whole ordeal repels potential mature members that visit the forums from Starcraft II. No one in the forums would be complaining about the moderators if the moderators actually did what they're supposed to.
Looking at General Discussion's rules (http://www.sc2mafia.com/forum/showthread.php/21235-General-Discussion-Rules-*MUST-READ*), for example, made me realize that the moderator team takes this shit too serious. Necroing a thread, 2-4 infraction points, really? Is that really necessary? Is it so hard to lock the thread, or to just archive everything that's 2+ months old? No posting about Mod Abuse in general discussion? Are you 5 fucking years old? Learn to take criticism, and just move the thread to Circlejerk. Here's another one, advertising. Who the fuck wants to advertise on these forums when it's already dead anyways? The only extent to which advertising should be banned is if it's linking to another community. Honestly I can keep on and on about how these rules are ginormously stupid, but I thought I would leave food for thought. Also, the rules aren't even the main issue, the issue is the frequency of how much infractions are given over time. But it would be balanced out if the infractions were less severe.
And yes, my ban last year was well-deserved but not well-justified. I'm not going to be very active on here anymore, but I might play one last FM if anyone still hosts.
Tl;Dr: The moderator team should be careful on their public appearance, if they don't want this community to keep going downhill.
Ever since I was banned, I moved on to my normal internet adventure. Tiloup introduced me to a vanilla Minecraft server that he found interesting. But hold on. Before this, I was sometimes fooling around on Lysergic's Tekkit server. Sometimes I crashed the server by exploding a few dozen of nukes, convinced that Minecraft couldn't have gotten any better. So sometimes, I would end up being temporarily banned from the server by either Raptorblaze or Lysergic. After I hopped onto the server that Tiloup told me about, we griefed and did other stupid shit. (The community is pretty large by the way, usually there's 100+ players online, in the server.) The difference was, that we didn't get banned. We didn't get banned because the admins weren't immature pieces of power-hungry shit. They never kissed ass to become a moderator. They never donated to become a moderator. And no, they never roll-backed the server because it was the way it was meant to be. Moderators don't interfere with the community's actions because each individual member makes up a name for themselves. Instead, each griefer, each criminal scumbag is shunned upon by the rest of the community.
Moderators are only there to prevent extreme cases of doxxing, harassment, and hacking. Even though the community is settled on Reddit, doxxing is extremely rare, and harassment is minimum. The community's maturity outbalances the immaturity. Here in this community, it's completely opposite. (Or was, at least)
The difference on this community is that no one here respects/values moderators as the way they should be. There's way too many fucking rules that it makes it hard to respect the moderators. This ultimately transforms what's supposed to be a friendly environment into a class-struggle to become a moderator. Because seriously, the only way to get away with shit is by becoming a cocksucking moderator.
The forums isn't the problem, it's the goddamn moderators. Forums being split into multiple subforums, with different moderators moderating each different subforum was a good idea. But enforcing the rules so damn hard isn't fucking friendly. This factor encourages members of the forums to test the patience of moderators. How long does it take before they start abusing their powers? This whole ordeal repels potential mature members that visit the forums from Starcraft II. No one in the forums would be complaining about the moderators if the moderators actually did what they're supposed to.
Looking at General Discussion's rules (http://www.sc2mafia.com/forum/showthread.php/21235-General-Discussion-Rules-*MUST-READ*), for example, made me realize that the moderator team takes this shit too serious. Necroing a thread, 2-4 infraction points, really? Is that really necessary? Is it so hard to lock the thread, or to just archive everything that's 2+ months old? No posting about Mod Abuse in general discussion? Are you 5 fucking years old? Learn to take criticism, and just move the thread to Circlejerk. Here's another one, advertising. Who the fuck wants to advertise on these forums when it's already dead anyways? The only extent to which advertising should be banned is if it's linking to another community. Honestly I can keep on and on about how these rules are ginormously stupid, but I thought I would leave food for thought. Also, the rules aren't even the main issue, the issue is the frequency of how much infractions are given over time. But it would be balanced out if the infractions were less severe.
And yes, my ban last year was well-deserved but not well-justified. I'm not going to be very active on here anymore, but I might play one last FM if anyone still hosts.
Tl;Dr: The moderator team should be careful on their public appearance, if they don't want this community to keep going downhill.