Banned?

[Razamanaz]

What does that even mean? I have seen several comments on this forum from people with a "banned" status beside their names. (None of them them has contained rude or inappropiate behavior.)
Banned from what? By whom? For how long? What actually caused their banishment to begin with?
Just curious. I hope this topic won't get me banned.

[Silky Rough]

It means they can no longer post until the ban is lifted, time is usually at the discretion of moderators. (I usually give 24 hours of "reflection time" with 7 days on the next "offence" on my mod account - not associated with this game).

A breach of any of the forum guidelines, as per the sticky, is all that is needed. "Rude and inappropriate" is one such rule but not necessarily required.

Sticky link
http://steamcommunity.com/app/518790/discussions/1/2119355556474258775/

[Torg Smith]

A lot of times posts get deleted so you won't see what was real bad.

[Razamanaz]

Originally posted by Silky Rough:

It means they can no longer post until the ban is lifted,

A breach of any of the forum guidelines, as per the sticky, is all that is needed. "Rude and inappropriate" is one such rule but not necessarily required.

Thank you for that Silky Rough, (Great name by the way), but that doesn't really answer the core of the question. How are they able to post if they are "banned"?: Is the banned status not lifted when the actual ban is over? How long does that take?

[Spills51]

Originally posted by Razamanaz:

Originally posted by Silky Rough:

It means they can no longer post until the ban is lifted,

A breach of any of the forum guidelines, as per the sticky, is all that is needed. "Rude and inappropriate" is one such rule but not necessarily required.

Thank you for that Silky Rough, (Great name by the way), but that doesn't really answer the core of the question. How are they able to post if they are "banned"?: Is the banned status not lifted when the actual ban is over? How long does that take?

If they already posted something before the ban, it will say banned next to a comment before it happened. That doesnt mean that particular post was what got them banned.

So if I just wrote the post above and then went and flamed someone in another thread and was banned...you would still see this post but with the banned icon.

[Silky Rough]

Originally posted by Razamanaz:

Originally posted by Silky Rough:

It means they can no longer post until the ban is lifted,

A breach of any of the forum guidelines, as per the sticky, is all that is needed. "Rude and inappropriate" is one such rule but not necessarily required.

Thank you for that Silky Rough, (Great name by the way), but that doesn't really answer the core of the question. How are they able to post if they are "banned"?: Is the banned status not lifted when the actual ban is over? How long does that take?

They posted before they were banned Razz'. And yes, when the ban is "lifted", which is at a moderators discretion, they can post again. It's just a temporary "sin bin" unless you repeatedly re-offend in which case they may lock you out permanently.

Just note, there are 2 types of moderators too. "Local", which can ban for the titles forum (as per the names provided in link I gave), and then you have Steam global which can lock you out of everything, even terminate your account.

[solon[fr]]

Other comments on this subject were already eliminated. There is a "moderator" on this forum which makes an excessive use of its position, as soon as a negative criticism on the game is written. I spoke about it in another forum about expansive worlds, from which I shall not quote the name here.

I also reported his bad and abusive behavior on Steam.

[Burning Bridges]

The problem is that this is a Steam forum, not an EW forum.

If EW pays for it then I will back off. But as far as I know it's paid for by the Steam users and should be available for their benefit. ie insults against other forum users are what's bannable. But criticism must be accepted.

The way it is on Steam developers hijack these forums even though moderation should be done by a neutral.

[Your Internet Dad™]

The moderators don't remove comments and posts that criticize the game. We do, however, remove posts where someone is being offtopic from the OP's original content, outright insulting or attacking other members, promoting pirating or hacking the game, or otherwise being disruptive.

There is no conspiracy to squelch people criticizing things; so long as they're doing so in a constructive manner and providing good talking points, they're more than welcome to do so.

Basic rule of thumb is, don't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and we won't remove it.

[76561198349709834]

As it was mentioned above the posting privilege of people who violate the board rules are getting revoked, either for a limited time (1, 3, 7 or 30 days) or even permanently. Here's the issue with Steam boards though: It is not possible to make reasons for bans or removed posts visible. that option simply does not exist. We are currently underway to address this with Steam and hopefully, some improvements can be made.

As for what Burning Bridges said, it is the Developers responsibility to handle and moderate the Forum boards of their respective product since this is part of our sales platform and space for which we pay Steam. The Moderators (Orange tags) you see are volunteers who are players of this game and were very active and helpful users before. I am the Community Manager which means I am employed by EW and manage the 3 Steam boards for our game as well as the dedicated theHunter Classic forum. This is to ensure people are sticking to the rules and don't post inflammatory or offensive content or insult others and keep discussions on topic.

There are also other Developers from EW active here but they will never moderate a thread and are using the boards to exchange with players or gather information.

[Razamanaz]

Well I, myself, have never been banned that I am aware of. I was just curious and appreciate all of your replies. Thanks to all!

[..]

So, if that is so - i have one question:


Why did you month ago delet ALL MY POSTINGS, good ones as bad ones, without directly warning me as mentioned in the board rules? I got banned the first time not 1 or 3 days - I got banned for ONE MONTH the first time.

If I have to stick to the rules - YOU SHOULD DO THE SAME.

What you got with that behaviour is a still angry customer.

[Your Internet Dad™]

Originally posted by ..:

So, if that is so - i have one question:


Why did you month ago delet ALL MY POSTINGS, good ones as bad ones, without directly warning me as mentioned in the board rules? I got banned the first time not 1 or 3 days - I got banned for ONE MONTH the first time.

If I have to stick to the rules - YOU SHOULD DO THE SAME.

What you got with that behaviour is a still angry customer.

Who banned you, and what reason did they give for your ban? We're not in the habit of handing out one month bans unless someone is a repeat offender; official forum guidelines state 3 day, one week, and then permanent as the course of escalation for people who repeatedly offend, though I'm typically particularly lenient and give people one day bans for the first offense unless it's a really egregious breach of forum etiquette.

And we don't blanket delete a user's posts from the forum; if needed, we will target and delete specific messages related to their bans, but never a blanket deletion of all user participation in the forum, so we're going to need a little more information about this supposed one month ban with all your posts deleted.

[..]

Humming:

I do not know who had banned me. Retrospecitve it does not really matter, its in the past and eaten.

Reason: 'Repeated negative comments in each and every section'.

Yes, I admit, I was angry. But did no offence in my opinion. I guess around 30 post or more have been deleted, including whole threads (I cannot remember what topics, the threads have been not just startetd by me).

But I suggest to let it stick, if not you or other 'local' admins have been responsible for that. You do your work - hopefully fair enough.

[Rottenflesh142]

@ .. it's best to sit back a wait when your feelings are taking over your mind. I know what you are going through with this game. Been there done it all with a lot of games. Grats to you for manning up on the ban I did the same in the Hunter classic forums after some issues in that game.

[..]

Hi Rotten:

Yes, I think it's time to sit back. It's a small edge between standing up against ugly things (and beeing rough when necessary) and beeing childish.

I think I have made my points very clear here, as often as necessary in my opinion. It's time to hold my breath because it will just do nothing constructive any more.

Beeing rough and angry CAN be constructive in some cases. When customers do not reply when beeing ripped off, this behaviour will continue and become more common. That's not good.

And in turn that's the reason I write here and on other plattforms. Amazon for example got a negative review of this game (even when I did buy it here on Steam). Sadly just money makes enough pressure to rethink tactics against customers. And negative reviews could produce this pressure.