Wiley, these ppl can't handle logic. Why do you try?
If not me... then who?
Seriously though, it's my sincere, idealistic hope that someone will read my post, and in the future if they are muted, they will realize that they were muted for saying F*** on a public channel by the software, not a mod who had let the people go who used fancy %(*% to bypass the filters so they wouldn't get muted.
Also, they might realize that it's a distinct possibility (even likely!) that they were mass .reported, before jumping to the immediate conclusion that HTC has a democrat/republican/American/bish/rook/knight/anti-theirparticularskincolor/anti-theirparticularcountry prejudice and picked on them specifically.
Better yet, it might save them from creating another thread on these forums with the same comments from both sides about the perceived injustices within the game.
I realize it will not reach many people who have a tendency toward doing such things, but I hold out the hope...
well... I been here for a few years.... I quit wearing a watch and keeping up with days or dates except the extreme important ones.....
my "these days" covers the last 3 or 4 years verses the first 7 to 8 or even 9 years I have ben around here..... just to set my original statement more accurately.... I quickly recall 2 mod threads in as many weeks or months which ever..... and that was just in the General Discussion forum alone...... I am not as on top of things as Lusche is <grin>
I still like the SYSTEM MESSAGE: gameid muted by moderator - reason - because it is HTC's SandBox
Heh, fair enough. My 'old days' are measured in months.
I find it fascinating how little changes over time on these boards. Somebody necrobumped a thread from 2004 the other day where a bunch of people were talking about how the gameplay had deteriorated from the 'good old days', and I could've sworn it was started last week, the way the people in that thread from 2004 were talking.
My counterargument for that would be a) we don't really need more channel spam and b) if they had any shame, they wouldn't be showing their backsides on the public channels, therefore the public shaming would have no effect, QED.
Vinkman- It just seems to me several orders of magnitude more likely that a lot of mutings are due to mass .reports or the automatic system versus a mod who's biased just sitting there waiting to pounce on people who are against his bias. In any case, knowing who the mods are helps nothing, and doing anything other than emailing HTC if you feel you were wrongly muted is pointless, IMO. All it does is disturb a lot of people who then feel the need to jump on the 'Freedom of speech!', 'The mods should be named!', and 'Help! We're being oppressed!' bandwagon.
Wiley.
