Originally posted by
TheHormone-Monster
I will respond to this because I still think think the bans were unjustified.
1) the leak was an honest mistake because someone in the discussion referred to being hopeful about squad modes and I mistakingly brought it up because I had known about it from my other discord server not realizing it.
2) the cuss word I said was shit. I never actually swear at people telling them to “f**k off” or anything against someone in a harmful way.
In my opinion, as they do go against the “rules” of the discord they don’t merit a permanent ban. I’ve been silenced within the discord several times just for creating discussion as well. People in the chats will say “stop arguing” but that’s simply not the case. I’m just trying to get people thinking about the game in a meaningful way other than gibberish. Regardless of the reasons why I got banned there is a perpetuating problem within that discord and there are many people here who have experienced it first hand.
Edit: added some thoughts
I truly do believe that your ban was due to the frequent rule breaks, rather than creating meaningful discussion, but we do have ban appeals where you can appeal your ban if you think it was unjustified: http://discord.gg/SKkk24w.
We really welcome discussion from both sides when it comes to things that might divide opinion. It can help inform our decisions in the future if we're able to see all the varying opinions of players. Moderation action wouldn't be taken against this unless it was just unkind, or appeared to be someone just trying to start an argument rather than have meaningful discussion. That said, when discussions do go too far the Discord staff may ask people to try to move on from the topic. This might happen if users were arguing but going round in circles a bit and not really getting anywhere other than continuing to raise tensions.
I'm not saying you were banned for swearing. You actually swore once on 6th February, and then again 1st March, both of which you were warned for, not banned. I agree, in neither instance was the swearing with any malicious intent. If it had been, you probably would've been muted. You had also been warned for discussing leaks on 2nd February. In between these incidents you also described Fall Guys as a dead game, which also does usually result in moderation action as well. This is a lot of rule breaks for someone to collect in only the space of a month. The ban was a result of the leaks you discussed on 2nd March, as well as your other prior rule breaks. I agree that as isolated incidents a ban would not be justified, but these are not isolated incidents.
Leaking by accident does happen, we know people can just not realise that something is a leak. If you're someone who sticks to the rules and just leaks something by accident, it's likely you'd have your ban overturned.