Unfair forum ban.

[Dûkë]

I have been unfairly banned for "telling people not to play the game or purchase from the game store"

My post did neither of those nor suggest anything like that in any sense.

What can I do to appeal my ban?

The reason for my ban is a blatant lie. A moderator being salty.

What to do?

Is there a way I can screenshot the now deleted post or can I find it archived anywhere?

[29933545203998740]

Publicado originalmente por ShadowSquirrel94:

Get used to it. Moderators can ban you for no reason (like in Block N Load, where a bunch of elitist trolls got moderator privileges).

I wrote to Steam Support about this, they said they will not/cannot do anything about it. Just get used to the idea of being unjustly banned from everything then you win/have more power over others.

It is why Valve need better moderators or they will must face backlash. Poor communication skill is showing from Valve it would seem.

[Seraphita]

Poor communication (between steam and devs) is what's going on here. Nobody of them know how to handle things. It's not even a bland insult out of nowhere. It's literally the situation going on right now. Steam doesn't interfere with devs. Devs doesn't interfere with steam? So who are the ones that control what's happening between?

[Silicon Vampire]

Welcome to City17, it is inconsistent here...



This whole place has become a flaming dumpster fire in the last couple years. Support won't even countermand blatantly incorrect forum bans. Don't expect them to ever do anything helpful in these cases.

The aspects of a "flat" company structure breed a workforce that ignores what doesn't directly make cash. The same things that eventually crash these companies...

[Doctor Zalgo]

Publicado originalmente por ArmedGhost-:

Publicado originalmente por Chompman:

You are telling people not to buy their product on their forum.

This will never end well on any platform that sells products and you know better then to do this just like you would never go to a store and yell in there not to shop there and expect to do that all day.

You are on private property in both cases.

I missed the part where I was telling people not to buy the game; I was more over asking people who playing game for some honest player feedback aside from Youtube because I personally thought the game look absolutely terrible (and it does)
.

The dev who read it, got offended and insta-banned me without reason and that was it. Makes it more suspect when Youtubers are saying the game is an asset flip then I get banned for a post like that.

Look at the forums of any game on Steam, there's no shortage of users bashing games, telling others not to buy it or bashing the dev team without getting banned. There's another game I play where the Steam's forums have been flooded with negativity and people blatantly telling others not to buy the game since it launched.

Not even the point,

Point is, Steam game forums are a gamble when you post anyway, we can post something innocent, catch a dev on a bad day, they misinterpret what was said and issue a ban without reason that Steam cannot overturn.

I don't think you get to be upset that the mods read your post the way you intended it, rather than the nicest possible way it could be interpreted.

If this is the first time you're dealing with someone taking you at face value, you're in for a rough time.

[ArmedGhost-]

Publicado originalmente por Doctor Zalgo:

Publicado originalmente por ArmedGhost-:

I missed the part where I was telling people not to buy the game; I was more over asking people who playing game for some honest player feedback aside from Youtube because I personally thought the game look absolutely terrible (and it does)
.

The dev who read it, got offended and insta-banned me without reason and that was it. Makes it more suspect when Youtubers are saying the game is an asset flip then I get banned for a post like that.

Look at the forums of any game on Steam, there's no shortage of users bashing games, telling others not to buy it or bashing the dev team without getting banned. There's another game I play where the Steam's forums have been flooded with negativity and people blatantly telling others not to buy the game since it launched.

Not even the point,

Point is, Steam game forums are a gamble when you post anyway, we can post something innocent, catch a dev on a bad day, they misinterpret what was said and issue a ban without reason that Steam cannot overturn.

I don't think you get to be upset that the mods read your post the way you intended it, rather than the nicest possible way it could be interpreted.

If this is the first time you're dealing with someone taking you at face value, you're in for a rough time.

my boy. Like I mentioned, I couldn't care any less about getting perma ban on that forum.

It's just the fact a dev can ban people for literally no reason other than from them getting upset from something they don't like.

[HikariLight]

Publicado originalmente por ArmedGhost-:

Publicado originalmente por Doctor Zalgo:

I don't think you get to be upset that the mods read your post the way you intended it, rather than the nicest possible way it could be interpreted.

If this is the first time you're dealing with someone taking you at face value, you're in for a rough time.

my boy. Like I mentioned, I couldn't care any less about getting perma ban on that forum.

It's just the fact a dev can ban people for literally no reason other than from them getting upset from something they don't like.

It's THEIR space.
That means they have control.
Unless they are doing something that outright violates the ToS they must follow to use Steam to sell their game or something illegal, they are allowed to moderate THEIR hubs as they see fit.

All those saying that the owner of a space shouldn't have control of who can access it, don't understand how private property works.

Regardless of why you got banned, it's their space, thus their rules.

[76561198407601200]

Publicado originalmente por ArmedGhost-:

Publicado originalmente por Chompman:

You are telling people not to buy their product on their forum.

This will never end well on any platform that sells products and you know better then to do this just like you would never go to a store and yell in there not to shop there and expect to do that all day.

You are on private property in both cases.

I missed the part where I was telling people not to buy the game

You've also missed what was told to you in other topics on how to dispute it.

[Doctor Zalgo]

Publicado originalmente por ArmedGhost-:

Publicado originalmente por Doctor Zalgo:

I don't think you get to be upset that the mods read your post the way you intended it, rather than the nicest possible way it could be interpreted.

If this is the first time you're dealing with someone taking you at face value, you're in for a rough time.

my boy. Like I mentioned, I couldn't care any less about getting perma ban on that forum.

It's just the fact a dev can ban people for literally no reason other than from them getting upset from something they don't like.

"something they don't like" - this is what I'm talking about. You know you're acting in bad faith, otherwise you would be talking about what you said rather openly rather than trying to imply the mods banned you for 'not liking' you.

[RasaNova]

Publicado originalmente por ArmedGhost-:

Publicado originalmente por Doctor Zalgo:

I don't think you get to be upset that the mods read your post the way you intended it, rather than the nicest possible way it could be interpreted.

If this is the first time you're dealing with someone taking you at face value, you're in for a rough time.

my boy. Like I mentioned, I couldn't care any less about getting perma ban on that forum.

It's just the fact a dev can ban people for literally no reason other than from them getting upset from something they don't like.

I have no idea what you said, but that particular dev seemed to be active in the forum and even respectful with civil criticism. My guess is you said something that might get you punched if you said it to somebody face to face, and the dev didn't want that in HIS game forum.

Fair or not, devs can moderate however they see fit. In unmoderated forums (those where there's just Valve staff mods responding to user reports) people have a lot more freedom to say what they want without consequence. I agree that instant perma-ban with no word is extreme... But I'd also bet that if you had asked something like "what are the selling points of this game" instead of "why do people buy this it looks horrable" you might have actually gotten some decent answers, if that's what you were actually looking for.