Warning for no reason?

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Have you ever been on a forum and got a warning for no reason or if there was a reason it was the stupidest anyways I got a few warnings on a few forums when I used to be on some forums I used to like for example for saying FP is the best or I like this forum theme compared to yours. I think this because of the staff immaturity on some forums. It gets tiring you login onto a forum you like and suddenly you start getting warning messages for something you didn't ?
 
nope, never happen to me. Yes I have had warnings and I know why I got them. Yet I have contacted the guy who gave me an warning and be nice and try to remove them.. worked but only once
 
It really depends on what you did. I've been accused for giving people infractions for no reason. In those cases, everyone else can see why the infraction is given, except the person who got it. Did the forum have rules against advertising similar forums? If so, then you could have got a warning for linking that rival forum on their site. Just something to think about. XD

I did get banned from a forum once for asking them to remove my artwork that someone posted there pretending it was theirs. I was perfectly within my rights to make that request. Might have been a terrible reason to ban me, but at least I knew it was to do with their mods throwing their power around. They eventually removed the artwork after my ban... and gave the ban reason as something like "not interested in being a member of this forum" lol
 
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I know staff on forums that give out infraction and warnings for no reason, or the stupidest reasons, i call it "The i am better than you cause i am staff syndrome". I have seen members leave and boards come to an end as a result, i have been warned once on zeta support for voicing an opinion when i felt there wasn't anything in it, but you will get them out there. A food staff team will have those who pm you you and chat about an issue rather than jump to conclusions..
 
There was this guy on our old anime forum who was 36 years old. He was fighting with a teenage girl because she asked him if he'd like to take part in one of the contests that she was hosting. She did nothing wrong. He was reporting her PMs and there was nothing in them to suggest that she was being mean, or breaking rules. One of the PMs he reported was her saying "I'm sorry if I somehow offended you." I asked him to knock it off and to stop abusing the report system.

He went to the chatbox and complained that I told him off for no reason and kept writing the same sentence over and over about how this 17 year old girl was cyberbullying him and we didn't ban her for him. He then wrote a blog post (we had personal blogs on the site) about her and how he hoped her mother would die after he learned that she was ill. I gave him a 30 day ban. He signed up on a new account claiming to have done nothing wrong, and PMd me images from rottendotcom. This guy failed to see the error of his ways, and seemed to think it was all my fault. XD (EDIT: He did get banned permanently for that. He could have lived out his 30 days and come back as a normal person.)

The whole forum was laughing at him because it was insane. People still tease me on Sakuga City for my history with weird members signing back up to shout at me after getting banned. Their teasing is all in good fun though. I do have a sense of humour. He went to other forums and accused us of being power hungry, so that's why I tend not to buy into all of that.

There is no doubt that there are asshole mods out there, but sometimes people do over exaggerate things. 🙂
 
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I've dished out warnings as an admin and I've also received them as a regular member. All in all they are useless functions that don't really accomplish anything productive. The problem-member gets agitated after receiving a warning & acts out even more. The best way get some peacefulness in your community is to send the member a private message asking them why they are acting out. Get to the bottom of what's causing the issues. If you can't, and the problem-member continues being a jerk regardless, just ban him/her and be done with it.
 
Years ago I got warned for "English Abuse". (It was because my post didn't have perfect use of the comma and I missed two capitals.)
I responded to them of course basically blasting them for being so foolish.

I also mentioned this warning to a friend and they mentioned it to another. That other person decided to write a blog post on it tearing that site apart. People saw the blog post, asked which site it was, then joined the site. From there these people proceeded to royally rip the staff a new one.
I didn't know about this until suddenly I got another warning, this time for multiple accounts. (At which point I was pretty surprised. And I asked "What do you mean multiple accounts? I only have this one". Then they explained their side, I asked my friend if they mentioned it to anyone... they had and I found the blog post. So I told the staff of the site that warned me what happened and they removed the warning for multiple accounts.)

Amusingly enough that site shut down a few months later. I don't recall the exact reason (I thought it was due to server costs, could be wrong though).

When it comes to warnings on my own site... If it's something major then there is no real warning, you're just banned. So if someone were to threaten our site? They'd get banned.
Now if it's something like they posted mature content outside of the allowed area? Yeah, there's probably going to be a warning for that. (Might be as simple as a PM that says "Hey, I saw your post about <topic>, in the future keep that kind of content in this <forum>. Thank you.") But that might be the extent of it. Now if they kept doing it after being warned... then it's time for more serious action.
 
a warning which I got was for saying I like this forum site compared to your theme I get PM from a Moderator saying I was abusive and threating the forum.
 
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Hacked said:
I got a few warnings on a few forums when I used to be on some forums I used to like for example for saying FP is the best
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:wtf:

If you think you're on a website where you're being reprimanded for the entertainment of a forum's administration, then it's time you leave the forum. 😛 There's no reason to be a part of a system that's broken.
 
Some moderators love to have a power trip and warn people, or suspend them. Same with some administrators, that feeling of power over another person. They may even quote a part of forum rules that you did break, but it might be so obscure or loose, that it could apply to many other areas. There are additional problems with forums where moderators are friends with people, which allows those people to get away with more than an average user.

How can a balance be reached? Fewer moderators, but obviously bigger communities need more moderators. Rules are also important, don't make them vague, and also keep them fair. Unless someone has gone out of their way to be a pain, they shouldn't get an official warning for something until they have been spoken to about what they did. It's important to let people know where the lines are in a community.
 
UFPlanets said:
How can a balance be reached? Fewer moderators, but obviously bigger communities need more moderators.
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We've always handled this by choosing our moderators from the community. There are no application processes. Chances are, if someone asks "Can I be a mod?" they'll never be a mod on our site. We have no interest in boosting someone's ego. Moderators are chosen for their personalities, their willingness to help the forum, and their interactions with other users.

We've kept this same system since 2002. When we had a much larger community, we used to also run a "rotational moderator" programme. We did this when we didn't need new mods, but were giving members that we weren't 100% sure about a chance to be on the other side for a few months. At the end of the rotation, we'd send them back to member status and promote two more. Later when we did need new mods, we could go back and ask the people who did an exceptionally good job to come on board as permanent staff. This worked out well, and we didn't have to "fire" anyone. 🙂
 
This didn't happen to me but a close friend. The community had a chat box so one night when my pal called it a night, the member he was chatting with told him "be good", so my friend jokingly replied something to the effect of "I'm up to no good". Next day he found out not just a warning but that he had been permanently banned with a message saying something along the lines "we had enough of your bad attitude". Worth mentioning he was voted by the community that year as the friendliest member so that was baffling, to say the least. Apparently, another dark joke he made in another community got a staff member onto him and decided to ban him after his confession to protect the community. Naturally, the administrator lifted his ban soon enough. I'm still amused that this happened two days after he finally had managed to convince me to return. It was so awkward at the time. I knew the staff member that banned him. :hilarious:


Shannon Apple said:
When we had a much larger community, we used to also run a "rotational moderator" programme. We did this when we didn't need new mods, but were giving members that we weren't 100% sure about a chance to be on the other side for a few months. At the end of the rotation, we'd send them back to member status and promote two more. Later when we did need new mods, we could go back and ask the people who did an exceptionally good job to come on board as permanent staff. This worked out well, and we didn't have to "fire" anyone. 🙂
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I like this approach. I wouldn't mind doing something like this to find new staff even if my community is not big at all. Maybe even FP could benefit with something like this for the services.
 
The downside of doing this on a small forum is the danger of "over moderation." New moderators like to be doing things. I always found on the old community that the rotationals did most of the spam removal. That's not because the established staff were lazy, but because they got to them all first. Over-eagerness could mean over-modding against users. I'm not keen on the idea for SC for that reason. I even had to rein one of our current permie staff in on ocassion. He's great for the site as a whole, but lets users get under his skin a bit. lol.

That forum was about as active as FP, so it could work perfectly here. If you do decide to do it on your smaller forum, maybe one person at a time and see how it works. 🙂
 
Most of my punishments I received on forums tend to revolve around giving unwanted feedback in the feedback forum. Apparently, honest assessments of incompetent forum admins and staff is not as appreciated as one might think. 😛

I still fondly remember the full on suspension I was given on a forum I was staff on. He thought he was funny by full on suspending me with the warn note that read " This is me not liking you. Cheers."

The joke was on him because he didn't realized I had partial admin powers that was not tied to my user group so I was able to work around the punishment, contact the founder and got him fired(he quickly resigned just before the firing could be carried out for the record) for it. lol
 
Bluezone777 said:
Most of my punishments I received on forums tend to revolve around giving unwanted feedback in the feedback forum. Apparently, honest assessments of incompetent forum admins and staff is not as appreciated as one might think. 😛

I still fondly remember the full on suspension I was given on a forum I was staff on. He thought he was funny by full on suspending me with the warn note that read " This is me not liking you. Cheers."

The joke was on him because he didn't realized I had partial admin powers that was not tied to my user group so I was able to work around the punishment, contact the founder and got him fired(he quickly resigned just before the firing could be carried out for the record) for it. lol
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That's what I called Luck @Lucky!
 
Oh yeah, I did get banned for trolling once about 10 years ago. Hahaha! I actually did troll them, but they deserved it. There was this girl who was disgruntled because she didn't win "Artist of the Year" on our forum (before Sakuga). It was soooo ridiculous I can't even... She even got her mother involved and tried to get one of our admins banned for not giving her the prize.

She solicited votes and told people she wouldn't speak to them if they didn't vote for her. She was reported and disqualified. I think there was an actual prize for the winner, but can't remember fully. I was a moderator at the time, so saw the whole thing go down from a staff perspective. She made a big deal publicly as well. She sent out a PM to 100's of members and setup a sort of duplicate of the forum. She got well over 100 people to join, which was kinda insane. They were 100 members who only ever posted in the fun and games section where she was prominent, but still.

Myself and some other moderators signed up to her forum with fascist names, and replied to heaps of threads while in character. That one wasn't my idea though. I'd never actually be the brains behind a trolling operation. XD. She banned us, then complained to our admin. He just laughed and told us that we should behave ourselves. At the time, it was funny.

We were immature back then, but it was worth it. She had caused a lot of distress to that admin that she tried to have the owner ban. It was our idea of a little payback. Most of those members eventually returned anyway.
 
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Bluezone777 said:
Most of my punishments I received on forums tend to revolve around giving unwanted feedback in the feedback forum. Apparently, honest assessments of incompetent forum admins and staff is not as appreciated as one might think. 😛
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That's how I get my warnings here. Oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
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