The official "Discuss moderation" thread.

So, my one and only encounter with the BioMods was recently and just off-the-wall ridiculous.

Now, not to toot my own horn here, but I'm pretty sure most everyone here is, at the very minimum, aware of me. I was nearing 10,000 posts over six years there at the time, had spent a bit of time in SP and MP forums of both ME and DA. I got around. I was helpful. I posted the ME3MP and DAIMP Resource Libraries and BioWare peeps stickied them for their usefulness. I was never exactly a trouble-maker and, more than that, was actually a helpful, contributing community member.

I had no warning points, even.

Now that the picture is painted, we go to the day it was announced that the forum had a pending extinction date. Emotions were high. For everybody. You'd think that, along with my past history, would account for something. You know, that little thing called context?

I made a bunch of calm, insightful, but unhappy posts that day. And then I made one angry, tongue-in-cheek joking post that a) avoided the profanity filter (I said f**k, with asterisks) and said we might as well operate under The Purge rules, burning couches and such.

This was no different than what everyone else was saying, even in that very same thread itself.

Guess what? First warning point ever AND 03 made it a permaban. For being "provocative".

Even better was I was permabanned on post 9,999.

So, no warning points or history of unruly behavior... on a day of tragic news where everyone was unhappy... I made one slightly out-of-line but not terrible post... permaban. Just like that.

The only reason I'm even alive over there again is because I was so angry and confused and distraught that I contacted a BioWare person via other means to ask about it and, after reviewing it, they agreed that the punishment was *ahem* just a tiny bit out of line for the infraction. You know, like, not exactly a PERMABAN type of offense, given the infraction, the circumstances of when and why it happened, and past history. I mean, other people were racking up warning points like they were trying to catch Pokemon. I get one and done? Nah.

I think that may have actually made me the first account that was permabanned and then brought back to life (without, you know, making an alt account and circumventing the ban). Also a bit epic, I suppose, that my return was post 10,000. You can't really make this stuff up. LMAO

Yeah, the moderation over there is, uh, rather fascinating right now, to say the least. I am walking on eggshells for the sake of still being able to direct stragglers to here.

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