So. First. Know that I am not writing this to harm anyone, but to meerly start a discussion about this and bring it up, and to get some opinions. I understand moderaters are busy and have more than an online life and that people have stressful days, also that with the AG forum, we are getting a completely free service. I write this for the discussion and wellfair of the forum. Were this to be one case, I wouldn't be writing this at all, but it has to do with many general things, that many people are concerned about. No one wanted to bring this up, so I decided I would. As most of you know, a lot has happened in the passed few months. Everything from ultrapower clones to random banns, to loads of flame war topics, and I just wanted to talk about things, and ask for as well as put out my own opinions. Some things will be brought up again that some of you guys may wish to just leave behind, but my personal opinion is that some things really need to happen. Basicly, it goes back to the walter situation. Things had been going down hill before that, but this was the major first point. For reasons unknown to us, walter was banned from the forum nearly permanently. On the forum, he never once personally tried insulting anyone please tell me if I was rong, and apparently it was about stuff happening on survive the wild, as well as darks thinking that he was going to ruin the comunity or something. I am the developer of survive the wild and have posted many logs and much info to show this didn't happen. Sadly only text, and I understand that. Text logs are sometimes not enough. And walter was banned. Dark feels that he has his reasoning and wishes not to share it with us. Ok, I thought, I am very frusterated and don't like it, but i'll let it slide. Then, more ultrapower topics were created, and only one or 2 mods on the forum were trying to do anything about it. Most recently, blink_wizard's beyond the bullet. The topic was requested to not be deleted, and it wasn't. Instead, ivan aka blink_wizard was apparently banned for 6 weeks, or months or what ever the duration was. I just know it wasn't 6 days. But, 2 days later, he was back apparently because a moderater sympithised with the fact that he didn't read the rules. And all this time, reguardless of reports, topics have been falling into the flames left and right recently, and I am hearing more and more negative comments on the forums moderation each day. Let's take this walter thing for example, reguardless of any rules or anything, just, snap, gone. Hardly any warnings, nothing. Just a couple of reports. But then, we report ivan aka blink_wizard who has done a lot more than walter to the forum, and knowtisabbly so. I don't even know what walter did. If me and my friends decided to ruin someones life by all reporting all these lies with forged logs to dark, would that person instantly get banned and the general public would not get very much reason as to why aside from random reports? Why is ivan who has clearly done everything rong, has even told me if he hacked the forum, he would delete this entire dramafield, why is he getting off scotch free. Why are the moderaters accepting excuses like, oh, I didn't read the rules. Maybe dark did have propper reasoning, but because we don't know what it is, at least to me and a lot of people I know, the fact that people like hmmm. Names. blink wizard, lascarlaslm or how ever you spell it, they are causing many issues. They have been reported many times. One got banned for about a day and a half, the other has received many mod warnings, but they are still aloud to do what ever they want, breaking forum rules, calling people mother fuckers and dicks, and recently, there has been no mod action. I say all this because many people are thinking, that this forum is going down hill very very fast. Me and select people honestly consider just making a forum for me them and friends and anyone who wishes to join to talk about this stuff, with better spam filtering than my last one heh. At least for me, I don't really feel comfortable hanging out in a comunity ware the bad people are aloud to roam free, while the inisent people or at least the people we currently think of being inisent are banned because of less than 15 reports. What if someone decides they hate me, and posts a bunch of reports. I'll probably get banned. So, i'd like to close by saying that this topic isn't ment for offense, and I am at least hoping to get a conversation started on the matter. I say this stuff as no more than a forum user, though I know I am writing the opinion of more than one person here. I am hoping something can be done. If I were just an utter protester, i'd say either ban these people or give us better reasoning for banning someone who to our knowledge, hasn't broken any rules. But instead i'm only hoping we can talk about things and get an understanding of everything going on and that hopefully something can happen. If it doesn't, i'm afraid I have to agree with all the people who think that the forum is going to fall into being a giant flame war with in it's self. I know I need to respect the moderaters choices, and I did about walter, until all of this recent stuff that went on with btb, then the redspot topic, etc etc. I hope I haven't offended anyone here. Opinions?
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