I'm sure this topic has been done dozens of times before and people have whined about it more than enough, but it seems that I think making some slight edits to this and bumping it would be a good opportunity for something to be said after all the Global Muting nonsense. [u]Offensive Content[/u]: Explicit sexual content, extreme hate speech against a Nation, individual, or so on, and only the most hardcore cases of inappropriate language will get you banned, along with other graphic and violent material such as gore. Beyond those few cases, no one should ever get banned for something unless it fits into one of those categories, you could make walls upon walls insulting or calling someone out with myriads of language, but so long as you don't encroach upon those territories, you won't get banned. Straight from the fingers of True Underdog: [quote]You need to adjust what you think is "offensive content" - [b]that was stupid and annoying[/b] but not terribly graphic.[/quote] That is in reply to one user copying and pasting the same derogatory statement about one person to someone else over several times throughout one thread. It doesn't constitute as Spam either which still puzzles me. [u]Spoilers[/u]: Nothing much to say for these besides the fact that it's only there for people that might leak Destiny info. Doesn't matter if someone just spoiled a recent movie or game for you, likely case is nothing will be done about it anymore. The option is only there for Destiny related stuff. True Underdog: [quote]In the future, I likely won't ban for non-Destiny spoilers.[/quote] He proceeded to chat with his fellow Ninjas about it, but I still find it stupid that if someone directly spoils without regret a recent Game or Movie, that they will not receive any punishment for it. We have Spoilers? Why can we not say that if something is done in a few months time-frame, that if something is spoiled not long after it came out, that that person can't be banned for a few days or something? It doesn't have to be a harsh 1-month or anything, but is a few days for someone ruining someone else's experience too much to ask? I thought we were against that? [quote]People could violate their NDAs and post Destiny stuff a year in advance. I'm pretty sure Bungie's been working on Destiny for awhile. That's when we would nab someone for spoilers.[/quote] [u]Threats[/u]: Self-explanatory, you threaten someone with very explicit and intended violence, and you might get banned for it. But to be honest, I've seen dozens of things like that typed out since the update, and those posts always remained there for long times before someone even hid those comments. I have to say that I think most often, since no immediate and intended danger can be felt from words on a screen, that no one will really mind it unless they take explicit offense to it. I've seen someone threaten someone else to kill themselves, and that person didn't get scolded or banned for it, so why does this exist if it doesn't get fulfilled when an opportunity strikes? [u]Exposing Personal Information[/u]: Also self-elaborating, you post someone's address or private information, and you probably will get banned for it. Only if i gets reported and immediately shown to a Moderator though, if it happened more than a week ago and nothing has transpired of it, they will ignore the complaints most likely since nothing became of it. [u]Stolen Content[/u]: Duh, not much needs to be said about this and I'd like to try and keep this a little on the short side, I can give more detail about it if someone asks though. [u]Hacking[/u]: Same as stolen content description. [u]Impersonating[/u]: Now we're at the two fun ones, Impersonation and Spam. Impersonation will only be met with a ban if the person has mimicked your Avatar, Name, and a similarity of your Unique ID. If they've just copied your Avatar and Name though, ehh, they won't do anything. True Underdog has certainly told me this himself at one point, but those messages are a least a month or so back and my PMs and the system don't go back far enough to have them be quoted, here's a juicy one though: [quote]The reason I don't care is because the way we moderate is directly influenced by the way that the webteam asks us to moderate.[/quote] That is in reference to the practices of another site's moderation, and how despite their guidelines are more concise than Bungie.nets CoC in a few ways, in that flaming and trolling are reportable offenses, they will not do anything that the webteam doesn't tell them to do. Which reeks of some issues that need to be solved. It's not as if the Web Team is really on this site as much as anyone else is, when will they ever see half of the stuff that others see? Nothing more needs to be said that if the webteam doesn't find a problem with something, the Moderators won't by their declaration either, no matter how it affects the community. That's all. [u]Spam[/u]: This one's a bit on the odd side honestly. You could spam the same message, image, comment, whatever, as much as you want across the boards, and it won't count as "Spam". You know why? Because Spam is only there to account for the actions of Adbots, or other known practices like "Click here for free MS Points!". MS Points are no longer active so it's of course dead, but you get the picture. Why is rampant Spamming of the same image, content, post, or anything really, not cause for a ban of a few days or so? Is it because the Reports just won't make it in in time to matter at all? Or is that option just a pointless placeholder for something that legitimately never seems to happen. Underdog: [quote]Spam is reserved for those stupid adbots. It wasn't a little of both really, it was a whole lot of neither, ha.[/quote] That's it for the updated and edited version of this, I rectified some of the things that could be construed the wrong way, and fixed areas that I believe rambled or did not get my point off well. We'll see if this, now changed a little, will get any new responses now that what's happened lately on here has happened.