Makkir wrote: »

I feel like someone is following every one of my posts and then reporting them, purposely causing grief. I have emailed customer service a few times last week with no response. Technically speaking, yes you can pretty much report anyone's post and claim it to be offensive in some regard...but is there a point where it becomes harassment? I feel like I have to walk on eggshells because the second I disagree with someone or make an "off topic" comment I receive a moderator message in my inbox and I certainly don't want another 3 day ban.

Will phone support look into this and possibly "wipe my slate" if I am found to be reasonable as I suspect this post will be reported as well?

They will do nothing about it. Ive lost 10 days of gametime due to overzealous *** mods. Be happy, as CS layoffs for the US are coming soon and we can hope these forum mods get fired.

You would think that anyone who reports several posts in a short period of time would also get a close look by the mods.

Seems like common sense to me ...
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KariTR wrote: »

are coming from. Have you had posts removed?

Edit to ask: Do CS point out the posts that broke forum rules?

I am going to try to be careful since discussing bans is also against the forum policy, so hopefully this serves more an educational purpose for those seeing it.

To answer your question, Yes and Yes. When a post is flagged and deemed inappropriate it is removed. You also receive a Private Message indicating it was removed, and they tell you what exactly was removed.

I am sarcastic. I will admit, coming to these forums 2 months ago from another game was a challenge to adapt to the policing here since it is much less forgiving. But I learned that quickly. I was a huge advocate against global auction houses and those conversations got very heated. I believe there are individual(s) who just report everything I say in hopes I get banned because I obviously hit a chord against their forum egos.

As an example, someone recently posted some spoilers for Game of Thrones (info that came from the books that will likely be in the next season). And I made a comment (I think in regards to the using the Spoiler feature on these forums) "So idiots don't come onto the ESO forums and produce spoilers for everyone else." Something close along those lines anyway...and it ultimately was the comment that landed me a 3 day ban.
I made a comment about these forums not being your personal facebook wall which got reported and removed.
I had another comment removed, and a warning issued yesterday for stating "You are so cute I just want to pinch your cheeks and say ozzie boo boo."

I don't mind the over-policing of these forums, but I think every comment needs to be analyzed carefully and taken a bit more lightly. Just ask, "Would a normal human being find this offensive?" I think as a society we just need to stop over protecting the exceptions. I don't think any of the above warranted warnings and a ban, especially since I used the word "idiot" in a general sense and did not name anyone specific (nor did I directly quote anyone).

I got a warning (and post removed) for commenting on someone's post with "You really are clueless, aren't you?".

If i get banned from the forums for pointing out that someone is clueless, well, then so be it ...
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Ragnar_Lodbrok wrote: »

They ban you from the game too not just the forums

You can't be serious?

Chryos wrote: »

Actually the mod's are bordering on violating the rights of free speech, or at the very least they are overusing censorship, getting close...

There is no such thing as free speech on a privately or company owned internet forum.

Your right to free speech does not, by law, apply here at all ...
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Makkir wrote: »

I am sarcastic. I will admit, coming to these forums 2 months ago from another game was a challenge to adapt to the policing here since it is much less forgiving.

The mods here are pretty bad at sarcasm, but then I find that in many American-run forums.