Banned!

[FoxEye]

Does anyone else often find themselves (anon) browsing some forum or other, and being amazed (horrified) at how many of the posters have "banned" under their forum name?

There are some places (Escapist mag forums for instance), where in a typical thread, 90% of the posters went on to be banned

It makes me laugh but also saddens me. I'm a big free speech advocate, and I'm naturally drawn to more chaotic forums which have little/no moderation. I also think there is a need for places where you can post completely anon without needing to sign up. Where people can be almost completely free to do whatever daft crap they like. Places like 4chan.

But more than that, you often find on these (tightly moderated) platforms, that people end up perma-banned for a single mistake that somebody decided was deserving of (virtual) death sentence.

I wonder if many of these places or moderators realise the effect of cutting people off from communities they have invested themselves in, for one incident that they don't approve of.

Also I'm not talking in any way about these forums. I don't notice lots of people being banned here (besides the bots).

 

[FoxEye]

Resetera? That place is always in the news, for some drama or other.

 

[FoxEye]

*Checks OPs post count*

Compared to a lot of places I visit, this place has pretty light touch moderation.

Obviously it's not 4chan or YT comments, but it's better than a lot of places. Now I sound like a suck-ass, thanks

 

[FoxEye]

Invested? Whaaaa? It's forums. Not a contract or shares.

Time. Energy. Familiarity with other posters.

Having your own arch nemesis (or five).

Free speech comes with responsibility. They should stop being an asswipe so they don't get banned. They should learn to be a nice person.

When 90% of a thread's posters were banned, and this applies to most threads, maybe you start to wonder if the posters are at fault, or something else...

Some places do in fact have mod teams who expect to be obeyed, bowed down to, and agreed with in all matters. And @dowie said, with various degrees of enforced PC...

Question: is your idea of "nice person" based on some universal standard?

 

[FoxEye]

I perma'd you for the meme

Tbh, I'm amazed I've lasted this long

If Mags ever becomes a mod...

 

[FoxEye]

Been a good day today. Manage to get myself banned from two sub-Reddits and one website, by asking for advice

Me: join site, ask for advice in first post.
Get banned with message, "You have to be a part of the community and contribute before you can post your own questions."
Me: "But I have literally no idea about this subject. I wanted to ask the people here who are the experts. I have literally nothing to contribute!"
Mod: "We're not here to answer your questions. The world does not revolve around you."

It's so far from the internet as it used to be. Where information just flowed. Now it's all gated "communities" where you have to have 100s of posts before you can even make your own thread. And woe betide you if you ask a question without the required "reputation" to do so.

Depressing.

Think I'll just stick to this place and hope you're all experts in everything

 

[FoxEye]

Bum boys /

Did you mean to type that into Google?

 

[FoxEye]

Reddit is absolute tosh anyway, I've never understood the appeal. It's just people doing everything they can for karma, and then editing and re-editing posts to say thanks for all the upvotes.

Stick your upvotes on your CV, you'll go far in life

Before today I had literally used it once before

After today I'm not sure I'll bother again

r\subject : "We don't accept *those* questions about subject. You need to ask about that in r\subject\while wearing a hat"
r\subject\while wearing a hat : "You need to ask about that in r\subject\while wearing a green hat"
r\subject\while wearing a green hat : "We only discuss subject from the perspective of a conjoined Mexican twin's druglord step-father. You need r\subject\..."