Any of you dudes get banned from TGP?..Why?

mercifulfuzziness said:
I got banned again. I have no idea why. I violated the rules, no explanation and bye. I won’t rejoin. I hate those websites where the moderators are so overactive and pulling the trigger so quickly without feedback. How to know what to do better next time?
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Yeah I just got a week ban, 3 points but no clue what for. I'd had a few drinks but that's not unusual for me so not sure what triggered it and they don't tell you.
 
duzie said:
Is there actually a point system 😮
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Yeah, average infraction is 3 points. Not sure how many a member needs before they’re booted, it’s probably as arbitrary as the mods decision making in assigning points. Last time I was reported there I received 0 points but got a warning, most likely because I commented on someone’s intelligence and after reading the interaction, the mod most certainly agreed with me but a report is a report!
 
Sounds about right. I received a warning once for quoting John Lennon about the meaning of one of his songs! The mod agreed, but a report is a report...
 
Aelred said:
Sounds about right. I received a warning once for quoting John Lennon about the meaning of one of his songs! The mod agreed, but a report is a report...
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See, that kind of shit is just stupid. Lennon died a couple of decades before that forum existed, and anything that he talked about was so long ago that it would be considered more history than political or whatever.
 
Frodebro said:
See, that kind of shit is just stupid. Lennon died a couple of decades before that forum existed, and anything that he talked about was so long ago that it would be considered more history than political or whatever.
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I thought so, the Mod agreed - and the Warning stayed. That was one of the only ones where I was told what the report was about - I got permabanned with no recourse to reply or reason why.
 
Frodebro said:
See, that kind of shit is just stupid. Lennon died a couple of decades before that forum existed, and anything that he talked about was so long ago that it would be considered more history than political or whatever.
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I got a week ban for jumping into some dumpster-fire thread where this dude was bitching about paying a booteek pedal builder for a pedal, and then not getting the pedal shipped to him ..

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Aelred said:
I thought so, the Mod agreed - and the Warning stayed. That was one of the only ones where I was told what the report was about - I got permabanned with no recourse to reply or reason why.
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I got dinged by Scott Auld about ten years ago for something or other, and we actually discussed it privately. He agreed with what I had posted (whatever it was), but said that sometimes they had to ignore their own opinions and follow the rules set by the admin. But it wasn't a major smackdown, just a warning and a couple points. I don't see them doing stuff like that anymore, they just go straight to timeouts and banning. No discussion these days.
 
PLX said:
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I think they resort to the ignore function only when they find somebody that they hate, but who smartly refuses to post anything that they can report. Of course, they cannot mash the ignore button without making sure that they announce it to the world.
 
Frodebro said:
I think they resort to the ignore function only when they find somebody that they hate, but who smartly refuses to post anything that they can report. Of course, they cannot mash the ignore button without making sure that they announce it to the world.
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Those guys all have their wife's boyfriend click the "report" button for them..

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Frodebro said:
Here’s the deal…. A very popular trend in modern society is to be offended by more things than all of your Facebook friends. That shows that you are the most virtuous of the group. That mentality has taken over TGP, and people mash on the report button for every little thing that they can claim offends them. And the moderators are either too “busy” to decide for themselves, or else they are cut from the same cloth. Either way, they tend to just swing the ban hammer rather than communicate with the creator of the offensive post. It didn’t used to be that way, but it sure the fuck is now.
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I hate VS'ers. I like to beat them in my basement.

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Frodebro said:
they just go straight to timeouts and banning. No discussion these days.
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Which, as absurd as it might read when it comes to something as unimportant as an online forum, is a miniature of a totalitarian state. For me, back then it wasn't necessarily the fact that I was banned that wound me up the most but that they didn't tell me why I was banned, let alone offering an option to file an objection.
 
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