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Feedback = Ban?!

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  • 17-10-2011 10:57pm
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    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭


    (At risk of siteban!)

    Does anyone find it strange/ironic that 4 of the threads on the first page of feedback have been started by members who are now sitebanned?!

    Conspiracy to keep the masses quiet or just the type of person who starts feedback threads?!
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    Brian
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    Feedback is usually a place for last-gasp grandstanding.


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    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,893 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    One banned for trolling. (2 threads)
    One banned for using an alt-account to get around another ban.
    One banned for being a re-reg of a banned user.

    It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that they were found out. Posting in Feedback with a "new" account tends to draw a lot of extra attention to an OP. :)


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    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    thetonynator wrote: »
    (At risk of siteban!)

    Does anyone find it strange/ironic that 4 of the threads on the first page of feedback have been started by members who are now sitebanned?!

    Conspiracy to keep the masses quiet or just the type of person who starts feedback threads?!

    No, not surprising in the slightest.

    If you come to feedback, and give genuine feedback, then fair enough.

    If you come to feedback to disengenuously have a go at mods, then as far as I'm concerned you are the lowest of the low on this website and deserved to be told to **** off and not come back, the website is better off without you and your "feedback" is a pile of shíte anyway.

    Generally, and I said generally, the most mouthy people in Feedback are those with an axe to grind. People who want to break rules, and are upset because they can't. People who've fallen foul of a charter because they either didn't read it, or are too stupid to understand it, or people who want to rules-lawyer their way around a ban.

    Then you have the re-reg out to troll, and the "usual suspects" who chime in on each and every Feedback thread about a particular forum, even they never post there and have no interest in the subject of the topic of the forum on which Feedback is being given.


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    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    Des wrote: »
    , or people who want to rules-lawyer their way around a ban..

    these fcukers. The people who complain in feedback that there are too many rules would do well to realise that 90% of the rules are in place because of single specific issues where a poster said "but there's nothing in the charter that says I can't do that".

    So, for example, a "no abuse" rule that is put in place because someone thought it's grand to say that <a certain tv personality> is a lying, fat, kiddie fiddling, corrupt, lazy, alcoholic means that after a number of months, and generations of mods later, people can't say that <a different tv personality> is boring.

    99% 75% of the posters on boards don't need any rules. The other 25% for whom the rules have to be written pretty much ignore them anyway. Fact of life, sadly.


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    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,893 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    RopeDrink wrote: »
    The reality is that yes, some claims may actually have weight and SHOULD be investigated... But... Feedback is NOT THE PLACE TO DO IT! Coming to FeedBack to vent some frustration will accomplish nothing more than discredit your own claims. 99% of all complaints of this nature involved someone who did not make an attempt to PM the Mod in question (Or a co-mod or even a CMod if they prefer not to actually talk to the Mod in question), completely bypassed the DRP and just decided to try skip all the steps and post it on FeedBack as the "Easier" (But greatly less successful) option.

    Just on this point, and to be fair to some of the posters who air their grievances here, I'm sure there are still some forums with out-of-date charters/mods who don't read the updates in the Mods Forum/people who remember when Feedback was the only place to come to give out about bans/infractions/thread-closures. The DRP forum is only a year old, after all, and some habits die hard.


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