This is Outrageous... StafF Can Mute You on Forums (I don't mean Ban, I mean Mute)

Hate to come on and have my first post be a rant, I'm actually doing this for my brother.

He would do it himself, but apparently no one can read his posts or threads. The funny thing is he was never warned or notified by anyone on the staff for anything. He apparently violated no rules, because think about it, if you violate a rule, you get an infraction of some sort or you get banned for whatever length of time or forever. He received neither. Someone just chose to mute everything he ever wrote and they deleted about 4 days worth of threads without giving any reason whatsoever.

This is outrageous, and here is the proof. He had a hunch these past couple weeks though he hadn't been on much lately so when he never received replies to his posts within threads, he just figured people overlooked the messages, but he became curious when he created a thread and putting aside no one responded, not a single person even viewed the thread on this sub forum.

We understand censorship to a degree, since this is a family oriented forum, but deleting 3 or 4 days worth of posts and threads and then muting everything else is beyond outrageous, especially when not even so much as a notice was given. They let him continue to waste his time submitting responses and creating a few threads without any kind of common courtesy.

Here's further proof snapshots of what you'll see and what he sees.

What you'll see is the top and what he'll see is the bottom.

http://i.imgur.com/nMI8zMV.png



And another one... What you'll see is on the left and what he'll see is on the right.

http://i.imgur.com/XgvgtCl.png

This is actually really weird, and silly if this turns out to be true.

This should not be a discussion. Contact a moderator or admin and they'll explain their actions.

discussing here isn't productive and won't change much.

This is generally called a shadow ban and works well in distracting trolls/intentionally toxic people because they'll waste their time posting instead of going to a new account when banned. They won't know if people are simply ignoring them right away so they'll keep posting for a while.

Like Conan mentioned, it's not very useful to post about this if you're seeking to appeal the ban because we're only hearing one side of the story

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Originally Posted by Conan

This should not be a discussion. Contact a moderator or admin and they'll explain their actions.

discussing here isn't productive and won't change much.

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Why? The people have a right to know. There is no mention anywhere in the rules that they will do this to you. Granted they have the power to do whatever they want, but the people also have a right to know that this can be done to them. They never explained their actions to begin with, so why bother making up reasons now. If he had done something truly wrong, they would have notified him of the reasons and taken action, not just put him on mute. It's more apparent that they did it because they didn't like something he said, but it wasn't in any way violating any sort of rules.

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Originally Posted by bobbo89

Why? The people have a right to know. There is no mention anywhere in the rules that they will do this to you. Granted they have the power to do whatever they want, but the people also have a right to know that this can be done to them. They never explained their actions to begin with, so why bother making up reasons now. If he had done something truly wrong, they would have notified him of the reasons and taken action, not just put him on mute. It's more apparent that they did it because they didn't like something he said, but it wasn't in any way violating any sort of rules.

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Conan has a point. They have their reasons and ask them about it. We are not allowed to discuss bans. This is probably a similar situation to that. If it was a mistake, it will only be fixed by contacting them. However, I think that they had solid reasoning behind it. Leave it be or contact a mod.

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Originally Posted by bobbo89

There is no mention anywhere in the rules that they will do this to you.

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1.2. Suspension and Termination of Account and Service
WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OTHER REMEDIES, SUPERCELL MAY LIMIT, SUSPEND, TERMINATE, MODIFY, OR DELETE ACCOUNTS OR ACCESS TO SUPERCELL SERVICES

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Quote from Terms of Service. Shadow bans are a form of modification on an account

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Originally Posted by bobbo89

If he had done something truly wrong, they would have notified him of the reasons and taken action, not just put him on mute

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That defeats the purpose of shadow bans

Romedog? I don't remember clearly but he was spamming threads I think everywhere. Not sure though, but yeah his name sounds familiar :p

EDIT: It also appears he has been global blocked as well, can't view his posts and threads. And he's been visited by Tinkerbell.

He posted a thread which only they can read apparently regarding this and they have yet to comment about anything. He'll throw rants and he's political about things but he's not a disrespectful. Fine, you seem to believe he did something wrong, well now he's on to their game, so they should let him know now why they did this.

He has a feeling he knows why they did it, but it's a political difference of views rather than trolling as you seem to believe. I won't say why, because they should be able to provide their reasons at this point for why they did it. If they have the power to do whatever they want on the forums, they also have the power to be decent and provide reasons that actually make sense.