What grinds your gears?

How vague. Leat you couldve done was post a link to said discussion on ef.

 

The above has several flaws and lacks proof or reason!

 

This is a intriguing Topic.

 

For the record, we don't ban folks on EF for disagreeing.

We ban folks for repeatedly breaking the forum rules.

Note: "Repeatedly" is relative to the seriousness of the problem and could refer to one or ten repeated rule infractions.

 

Idiots! Ax + By = C

Therefore, C is the guilty party!

I've got proof in a book around here someplace....

 

If you already are sure you will get banned you must know you did something wrong. If you did something wrong why would you want to vent it here? That is plain weird to me.

It seems like all discussions that are ended on EF by either someone being banned or a thread being locked are continued here now. I'm not sure I like that trend...

Anyway just me venting

 

well, if you noticed, we have rules too ... ;)

 

Yeah I do not completely disagree with you. It is just that I do not see the point in complaining/talking about it in a different location. It does not get you anywhere.

Anyway no harm intended

 

Are you person a or b? In either case not responding would be better course of action. If you are b, everyone knows that 90% of stuff on forums has flaws and lacks proof or reason, no reason to state it. If you are a, why respond to the detractor,you'll only encourage him/her and appear even more foolish.

 

if you have no trust in that place, why go there at all?!??... Said it once, will say it a million more - MA should have it's own forums, especially now that there is an official "community manager" that's outside of the realm of being the only way to really talk to the guys inside the company.

 

If you check the EULA/ToU you see they speak about a forum .... but what forum ... maybe they had one ? EF is more populair ?

But even if there is an official forum then ppl still are banned because of misbehaving etc etc

 

Mindark is smart not to have an official forum.

Its a total legal release of liability on their part. If they had to monitor discussions like the one yesterday where personal information was displayed they would be wide open to lawsuits. Its best to leave the hosting of such discussions to independent groups as the independent groups are less juicy targets financially, and mindark is not liable legally.

In order to adequately police a forum hosted by Mindark a paid staff would have to be employed for the sole purpose of monitoring interactions within the community. Volunteer mods would not be the answer here, nor would compensated players be the answer, as both would open the same doors to bias we have now --- ultimately solving nothing.

 

Drop that idea, the human mind does not work like that.
Even scientists will kick and scream if reality has the audacity to disprove the facts they based their theory on.

And in internet forums the rule is that: "if a dislikes b, all facts presented by b are untrue" AND "if a dislikes a presented fact and ignores it, that fact is untrue"
more positively phrased one could say that you cannot enforce anyone to accept any facts they don't want to accept.
So just don't rack your brain about it, no matter if you are right or wrong, if someone doesn't wanna discuss, just leave it alone.
Much less stress that way :)