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[SomeoneStoleMyName]

Ask your friend to be more careful. The moderators on this forum have a really low threshold for anything they perceive as crossing the line. And sometimes the reasons for their bans and warnings are indeed wrongful and confusing. As an example I once quoted someone's message to reply to them, and in the quoted message was a picture that a mod found offensive. Result was me getting a warning and a 1 day ban for "posting an offensive picture" when I was simply quoting the real offender. 

I often see people post far worse than the reasons I've been getting warning posts for as well - and going unpunished from it, so I'm not sure if the moderators are exerting favorism towards members or what. Other cases includes being banned for spam posting a satirical "fun thread" while other people do this sometimes without any action taken against them at all.  

 

In any case, you shouldnt expect an actual reply. Ive made a post about this here earlier which went unanswered from both Bioware employees and moderators both. Ive also used the contact email for bioware social trying to stand up agains an unfair 1 day ban in the past, this also went unanswered. So dont expect power abuse by moderators or unfair bans to be resolved by establishing communication.

Best and only advice I can give is for your friend to create a new account and treat conversation on these forums as a minefield and watch back on what he has written before pressing reply, because some moderators seem to simply look for any excuse to ban and warn people regardless of context and intent.

 

[Kantr]

Ask your friend to be more careful. The moderators on this forum have a really low threshold for anything they perceive as crossing the line. And sometimes the reasons for their bans and warnings are indeed wrongful and confusing. As an example I once quoted someone's message to reply to them, and in the quoted message was a picture that a mod found offensive. Result was me getting a warning and a 1 day ban for "posting an offensive picture" when I was simply quoting the real offender. 

I often see people post far worse than the reasons I've been getting warning posts for as well - and going unpunished from it, so I'm not sure if the moderators are exerting favorism towards members or what. Other cases includes being banned for spam posting a satirical "fun thread" while other people do this sometimes without any action taken against them at all.  

 

In any case, you shouldnt expect an actual reply. Ive made a post about this here earlier which went unanswered from both Bioware employees and moderators both. Ive also used the contact email for bioware social trying to stand up agains an unfair 1 day ban in the past, this also went unanswered. So dont expect power abuse by moderators or unfair bans to be resolved by establishing communication.

Best and only advice I can give is for your friend to create a new account and treat conversation on these forums as a minefield and watch back on what he has written before pressing reply, because some moderators seem to simply look for any excuse to ban and warn people regardless of context and intent.

 

The ban for that was probably unfair but not the warning

[fdgvdddvdfdfbdfb]

It's not a great system is it? You can't even log out. But a permaban is pretty rare, I wonder what it's about

[SomeoneStoleMyName]

The ban for that was probably unfair but not the warning

Which one? O.o

If its the one about quoting someone who posted something offensive, that should not in any way make ME guilty of what THEY posted (If that is the one you are refering to). That is pretty much guilt by association. This is a modern day internet forum not medieval europe under the dark ages.

[Kantr]

hmm well. Depends on how naughty the image was

[AlanC9]

Which one? O.o
If its the one about quoting someone who posted something offensive, that should not in any way make ME guilty of what THEY posted (If that is the one you are refering to). That is pretty much guilt by association. This is a modern day internet forum not medieval europe under the dark ages.

But if you quote the offensive image in your own post, you kind of are committing the offense. There's the image, in your post. Depends on how the rule is written, but I don't think there's an exception for quoting other people

I has something similar happen to me when I called out another poster for advocating piracy and got banned myself. But I don't think I was actually violating the rule, since IIRC the ban is on advocating piracy, not mentioning it at all. I could be wrong, though; I haven't looked at the TOS in a while.

[LPPrince]

If someone posts an offending image or one that is against the rules and you quote it knowingly keeping it in, you're breaking the rules too.

 

Thats why you'll often see people say

 

*snip*

 

when an image was there previously. Snipping avoids posters repeatedly posting the same artwork, gif, or whatever it is that was posted, to avoid spamming or avoid posting something against the rules.

 

Its why people will get warnings if they keep quoting the same perfectly innocent image over and over- it ends up taking up space and doesn't need to be happening if you can see it once or twice.

 

And its why people will get warnings if they quote something that needs to be removed. You end up making it harder than it has to be to remove it as they have to do it more than once.

[LPPrince]

A thread isn't going to help in this scenario. Your best bet is sending a private message to a moderator if you're seeking assistance for something like this.

[Sinophile]

Was your friend banned by a Ninja per chance?