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I agree, the mods (or at least some of them) over there seem too uptight about the banning.

I also got banned once for a week for a very similar reason: another member got banned and I just questionned that.

I like that forum, but (some of) the mods should be less uptight IMO.

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Its a tricky situation though, because I imagine they have to put up with a ton of {censored} and as a result they stick a "you have to be this smart to post" rule set which a lot of dumb people will get caught in. Whether or not being dumb is a bannable offense I guess is the question. :lol:

 

But yeah it doesn't help that they seem to enjoy it a little too much....

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Its a tricky situation though, because I imagine they have to put up with a ton of {censored} and as a result they stick a "you have to be this smart to post" rule set which a lot of dumb people will get caught in. Whether or not being dumb is a bannable offense I guess is the question.
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But yeah it doesn't help that they seem to enjoy it a little too much....

 

Well it also doesn't help when the mods themselves might not be the brightest bulb around :idea:

 

Yes that pun was intentional

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I used to get into it with a certain mod all the time because he seemed to have it out for me. I remember one time he banned me because I said that that Rammstein video with the porn in it was childish and stupid. He banned me, bringing up my sexuality in the thread and accusing me of having a vendetta against straight people when it had nothing to do with anything and wasn't mentioned anywhere else and then didn't respond when I laid into him about it.

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After being on the forum for about a week I'm starting to find it's kind of lame. Now that the overzealous banning thing has been pointed out to me I can see that most of the forum is paranoid and no one really seems to talk about anything since they're all scared to step out of bounds... even to the point of apologizing profusely when someone realized they made a mistake they made in a previous post.

 

Suck holes are lame and I support nothing that promotes that kind of behaviour. Forum deleted.

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After being on the forum for about a week I'm starting to find it's kind of lame. Now that the overzealous banning thing has been pointed out to me I can see that most of the forum is paranoid and no one really seems to talk about anything since they're all scared to step out of bounds... even to the point of apologizing profusely when someone realized they made a mistake they made in a previous post.


Suck holes are lame and I support nothing that promotes that kind of behaviour. Forum deleted.

There's no point in apologizing, they'll ban you for it like they did me. :cop:

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After being on the forum for about a week I'm starting to find it's kind of lame. Now that the overzealous banning thing has been pointed out to me I can see that most of the forum is paranoid and no one really seems to talk about anything since they're all scared to step out of bounds... even to the point of apologizing profusely when someone realized they made a mistake they made in a previous post.


Suck holes are lame and I support nothing that promotes that kind of behaviour. Forum deleted.

 

 

Yeah, I havent spent a lot of time there, but glancing through that ban thread explains a lot about how the members all seem to walk on eggshells and suck up to the mods.

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It's important to note the historical/psychological significance of what's going on over there.

 

I remember reading about an interview that the allies did with an SS officer after WWII. He said that their biggest tool in detecting and finding "undesirables" was the snitching of people that somehow knew each other, neighbors on neighbors or friends on friends.

 

You see this tendency crop in any sort of situation in which there is even a semblance of authoritarianism. Look at the Salem Witch Trials as another example. Of course the mods over there heartily encourage this type of ratting on one another; it makes their heavy handed policing of their little forum that much easier:

 

http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/new-member-introductions/announcements.html

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Jeez, what a bunch of babies. The best message boards are the ones with lenient moderation. Yeah, people should be banned for spamming porn or whatever, but let people squabble and settle things themselves, do their own thing and have a good time talking about music and equipment. It's not detrimental to the health of a website if one person calls another an imbecile or whatever, posts in the wrong section, disagrees with the typical opinions, neg reps the wrong person, etc.

 

The rep abuse thing doesn't apply anymore..the mods essentially decided that they don't give a {censored}, so people are allowed to troll away on the rep. At least that's how it was at one point..it may have changed.

I was banned for sending neg rep to a moderator when I genuinely disagreed with his post. So, first I'm banned for publicly disagreeing with a moderator, and then when I disagree in private through what is normally an anonymous system, I still get banned. I guess I learned my lesson, don't argue with the powers that be.

 

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It's important to note the historical/psychological significance of what's going on over there.


I remember reading about an interview that the allies did with an SS officer after WWII. He said that their biggest tool in detecting and finding "undesirables" was the snitching of people that somehow knew each other, neighbors on neighbors or friends on friends.


You see this tendency crop in any sort of situation in which there is even a semblance of authoritarianism. Look at the Salem Witch Trials as another example. Of course the mods over there heartily encourage this type of ratting on one another; it makes their heavy handed policing of their little forum that much easier:


 

 

So very godwined

 

But then its also true. It is a trivial microcosm of police state behaviour patterns.

 

No questioning of authority (people being banned for just questioning a mod), encouragement of reporting, discouragment of independent action (they ban people for trying to 'be mods' and keep things calm themselves), no culpability for the authoritarian body, no means to appeal or have independent assessment etc etc

 

Many of the major beats are there.

 

But on the other hand, its a forum. Its not important.

 

LordOVchaos, I just went over to metalguitarist and registered there. Seems nice and relaxed, with good natured banter and no one seems to fear the ban-hammer. Is that what 7string used to be like? Do you know why it split off? I saw some people on there from 7string, including one mod, so there cant be any bad blood to it?

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Metalguitarist isn't much better. Me and a bunch of other people were perma-banned from there just because we were from SS.Org and Metalguitarist didn't want SS.Org people coming to their site. They consider themselves refugees from SS.Org who are working to make Metalguitarist like SS.Org "used to be"..whatever that is. Ah well

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