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Post by Jeremiah12LGeek on Aug 5, 2016 14:17:07 GMT
UPDATE:
Well, there goes Blue/MuhWaifu. So far, only one ban resulted, but the day is early. Members of The Shelter should expect it to be next. I'll check on it now.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hi there. If you belong to a private group on TBF/BSN, whether active or inactive, you should be aware of something.
Moderators are trolling groups looking for rules violations, new and old.
Groups that have been inactive for a long time are finding members getting warnings and bans, in some cases for violations that go back to the day that TBF was launched. I wish I was joking, but one of our members was just moderated for a post they made back in February of 2014.
This isn't just happening in one place. I administrate a couple of groups, and the BioWare moderators are currently actively trolling our members. It is pretty upsetting and stupid, but I wanted people to know that it is happening.
We took steps to delete posts we thought might get the poster perma-banned, but we haven't prevented the other bans and warnings.
This effects anyone who is a member of "The Shelter" and "Code Blue," as I can directly confirm it is happening in both of those groups.
I don't have any advice about what to do about it. In practical terms short of madly deleting everything you posted to avoid permaban during the last few weeks (which is arguably pointless) there's not much to do, but I felt people should at least know.
I suspect banning people for the final weeks is largely what they're trolling for excuses to do.
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Post by Babar Guy on Aug 5, 2016 14:22:58 GMT
Botmods a shit
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Post by zipzap2000 on Aug 5, 2016 14:26:19 GMT
Dude if I write the following
*Sips Ryncol*
Self censoring, you get a warning point.
(Sips Ryncol.)
Fine.
Breeding request, accepted?
Flagged as abuse, threatening behaviour and harassment.
The forum is closing. I fail to see why I should even give a shit what the mods want from me anymore.
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Post by crusty on Aug 5, 2016 14:29:38 GMT
It's the modding equivalent of shitposting. Would be a very amusing development if they didn't get paid for it. But they do, so it's just unprofessional.
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Post by Reznore on Aug 5, 2016 14:31:10 GMT
Seriously....really on the BSN..... Well , whatever. It just sank to a new low.
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Post by Obliviousmiss on Aug 5, 2016 14:32:51 GMT
Well.....crap. I better delete the Untouchables..... we complained about the mods many a times there.
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Post by The Hype Himself on Aug 5, 2016 14:35:11 GMT
Don't worry, I think I'm just going to sink their website with porn an all my alt accounts.
It'll all be over soon anyway.
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Post by BadgerladDK on Aug 5, 2016 14:35:33 GMT
Heh, doubt I posted anything ban-worthy in the only group I remember being a member of, but thanks for the heads up. I'll check just to not give them the satisfaction.
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Post by Jeremiah12LGeek on Aug 5, 2016 14:41:22 GMT
It's the modding equivalent of shitposting. Would be a very amusing development if they didn't get paid for it. But they do, so it's just unprofessional. Crusty, could you give Johnny Walker's group a head's up about it for me? I don't know if there would be anyone affected, but just in case.
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Post by LightningPoodle on Aug 5, 2016 14:45:12 GMT
It's been happening for a while now. If they start banning people for private messages, then I'll worry.
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Post by vertigomez on Aug 5, 2016 14:57:52 GMT
Not sure if funny or sad.
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Post by mousestalker on Aug 5, 2016 15:08:14 GMT
That's rather pathetic.
The smart thing to do would be to withdraw all moderation except on demand. Let the hoi polloi vent, then close the forums as scheduled. None of what's being posted really matters to BW. That's been made patently obvious. Banninating is simply going to stir up the already aggravated.
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Post by Jeremiah12LGeek on Aug 5, 2016 15:08:48 GMT
Well, I made a public post asking the moderators to stop.
My permaban will be in the pipe shortly, I'm sure.
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Post by LFS on Aug 5, 2016 15:10:15 GMT
Wow. =\
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Post by mousestalker on Aug 5, 2016 15:13:53 GMT
Well, I made a public post asking the moderators to stop. My permaban will be in the pipe shortly, I'm sure. How ever will you live with the shame of it?
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Post by Pounce de León on Aug 5, 2016 15:15:55 GMT
WTF? They working to increase their moderation quota or what?
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Post by kouzje on Aug 5, 2016 15:18:02 GMT
It's quite intriguing. As the forums are closing I fail to see the purpose of this. Maybe BiowareModTeamLeader is telling them to clean up everything before they can archive it, thus some sort of automation is happening? The only other theory I can come up with is just the mods being given free rein and just coming back at everyone because they don't care anymore. That would be quite amusing.
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Post by Pounce de León on Aug 5, 2016 15:19:24 GMT
It's quite intriguing. As the forums are closing I fail to see the purpose of this. Maybe BiowareModTeamLeader is telling them to clean up everything before they can archive it, thus some sort of automation is happening? The only other theory I can come up with is just the mods being given free rein and just coming back at everyone because they don't care anymore. That would be quite amusing. Maybe they have to prove some way they were worth the money.
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Post by Nimlowyn on Aug 5, 2016 15:19:37 GMT
What the, why? What is even the point?
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Post by Reznore on Aug 5, 2016 15:20:30 GMT
They're probably trying to ban as many people as possible because they know it will be hell to moderate as time passes. Still not cool.
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Post by Urizen on Aug 5, 2016 15:22:40 GMT
Just when you thought it couldn´t get worse, surprise, it gets worse.
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Post by Jeremiah12LGeek on Aug 5, 2016 15:39:44 GMT
Well, I made a public post asking the moderators to stop. My permaban will be in the pipe shortly, I'm sure. How ever will you live with the shame of it? It might seem weird to think of it this way, but in five days, I've already spent a lot of time answering questions and linking people to info about what they're asking for. Obviously, I'm just one person, but if they permaban me and the other people doing it using old posts as an excuse, they're going to cut into the people helping with the transition quite a bit. I'm so genuinely pissed off about this.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2016 15:47:47 GMT
Lolwut. I am totally out of my league with trying to understand or guess what a hell is happening over BSN and why. Either this is Insane Troll Logic, or maybe it's long awaited BSN epilogue titled The Revenge of Botmods. Whatever it is, and how all this ending BSN nonsense has been handled has well gone beyond a parody horizon*, that I am probably like going outside now and maybe have a beer and maybe some barbecue too, and hopefully I'll never think or write about this issue again -> *the term is a satire of an event horizon. Instead it's a boundary, beyond which it is impossible to make fun or parody something, because it starts makes parody about itself by itself.
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Post by Kenny Bania on Aug 5, 2016 15:49:26 GMT
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Post by Deerber on Aug 5, 2016 15:54:34 GMT
Oh, I promise they really won't need any excuse whatsoever to ban *me*, once the 26th approaches
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