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[quote=Liv] Plenty of people on here have had very aggressively opposing opinions directly opposing Site Staff in the past whether it's over a feature or policy, none of them got banned because of a difference of opinion. [/quote] There's also been plenty of people on here that I've seen with my own eyes get banned for having opinions that most people disliked, including Site Staff. That guy is just 1 example but if I searched more I can probably find you at least 1 or 2 others if not more.
Also, I would like hearing some criticism about my ideas, not about my experiences with people getting banned forever in the past. Everyone can form an opinion based on what they've seen and I personally find it trivial to get banned, it's totally fine if you disagree with me but I'd much rather you focus on the ideas that me (and @MrMonsh ) brought up. Thanks.
[quote=Hi] there isn't even a need to police alts as long as they don't do any harm [/quote]
I don't know, he had some weird arguments but I still feel like he shouldn't have gotten banned because all he tried to do was defend himself after making a dumb post, without attacking or insulting anyone. If anything I find the guy who made the pronoun thread in the first place more worthy of a ban than that guy but that's just my opinion.
I'm just disappointed that he got banned, not upset at it.
[quote=Jett] 1. have a cool name 2. play game fast and submit 3. external crysis 4. submit more [/quote] Relatable.
[quote] I've been browsing the site forums for like 2 years now and can't remember any such cases. [/quote] I've been browsing the site forums for almost 3 months and I already know a few cases, the most recent one being in this thread which I feel like was an undeserved ban even though the guy seemed to be trolling.
[quote] - If site staff feels it necessary, forum posting privileges may be revoked. [/quote]
Good find, although I can't think of a single scenario where that was used over simply banning the user. They should use that more. [quote] How would you police alts and which account should be able to submit runs? srcom can't really verify which account is an alt and who owns it. [/quote] In my opinion there isn't even a need to police alts as long as they don't do any harm such as impersonating other people or if it's an alt of a banned account, in that case it would be easy to tell that it's an alt and it should get banned depending on the gravity of the situation (e.g the SuperAL guy). If anything, making alts increases the user count that the site has, which contributes to the growth of the site and to the increase in size of the company, and furthermore, allowing alts would save the team more time so that they can focus on other important things.
Ok so this idea was suggested to me by @MrMonsh but I thought it'd be a good idea to make a thread about it as it is something important with the end goal of making the site a better place for everyone.
Instead of getting banned from the website as a whole, what if you could separate getting banned on the forums from getting banned from submitting runs? To me it seems very unfair to get banned forever due to how easy it is. Simply having an unpopular opinion that the mods or the users in general dislike will get you banned, so what could be done instead is ban that person just from the forums while allowing them to still submit runs, and viceversa too; if there's a player that cheated in the past they should get banned from the leaderboards but still be allowed to talk on the forums.
This can apply to alts too; I think it's unfair for alt accounts to get banned for no particular reason other than simply being alt accounts. It is fair to ban alt accounts of people that got banned on their main accounts though, but for the other players it's simply unfair as long as they don't do any harm. Maybe what could be done is ban those alts from the leaderboards IF they submit a run on the same leaderboard as their main account, because alts typically don't have submitted runs anyway so them getting banned from submitting runs is pretty fair.
[quote=Garsh ]He was probably banned for trolling, but I have no way of knowing that for sure. [/quote] Nah I doubt he was trolling, he had a few points. Even though he was mostly wrong I didn't wish he'd get banned but too bad there isn't a muting feature or something (or getting banned just on the forums).
