It’s fair enough if someone’s silenced for breaking the TOS. It is NOT fair if people are flagging and silencing others when they’re not breaking the TOS, or making up rules/links to rules just to silence them.
Asking people to stay on topic is not off-topic. Having an opinion should not cause a silencing because said person “derailed the topic”. They were on topic. It’s up to the repliers how they reacted to that. No one on here should be responsible for other people’s reactions.
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Once a topic get’s flagged it is auto hidden until one of the forum staff takes care of it. Your eyes did not deceive you, the topic was hidden for a limited time, just like all the others
The execution of the forum rules are actually at this point strangling people of their ability to express concerns with Episode as a whole. Eventually the community will get sick and migrate to a new platform because their voices are never heard.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with the rules themselves, but they’re being used as a way to silence useful discourse between individuals of different views. That, and the flagging system doesn’t tell people the difference between ok content and not so okay content when there’s ambiguity. The forums are full of young people who don’t quite always understand the TOC and there’s a lack of clarity about what abides by the TOC and what does not. Things change constantly and people suffer as a result.
Literally, everyone else in one topic was off-topic but when I decided to be on-topic but some of my comment was off-topic, I get flagged as a whole while the other comments stay.
It makes you question the consistency of consequences on the forum as a whole. An example of fair vs unfair silencing:
People get away with saying outright racist things – that’s against the TOS – but telling them to get back on topic is flagged? That or the thread is only closed when POC defend themselves?
Topics like that should be closed well before they generate argument. They’re against the TOS.
Commenting that a clothing asset should be renamed because it appropriates a culture… on the thread announcing the release of said clothing asset is on topic.
It ridiculous and these moderators are jerks for it. I can’t even defend myself without getting flagged and put on hold when the one who insulted me and my religion gets flag only a small amount of times then freely can carry one with their racist and discriminatory ways.
That was dumb. We were just saying to change the names and then we get flagged because we were respectfully disagreeing and defending tartan while the others who kept silencing us were free and weren’t on hold.
I seriously also think that the notification you get when something’s flagged should be changed. It says “by the community” whether it was the community or the moderators.
