Account banned for offensive or inappropriate clan description.

Title says it all. Tried to log on just now and get ready for war only to find this message at the loading screen. Read some of the threads regarding this issue but I am pretty sure we don't have anything inappropriate in our clan description. We never trash talk with it and our leader is the only one who gets to edit the description. I don't remember what we have in the message exactly but it is just some requirements for recruiting. There might be a "Clash on m*******" at the end but are you seriously going to ban the leader and the co's just for that? Can't you just send us a warning, contact the leader, or just get rid of the description? I feel like some clans are just treating this as a strategy to get an advantage in war and hopefully there will be some improvement.

Someone might have changed the description while you were away.

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Originally Posted by Zazooo

Title says it all. Tried to log on just now and get ready for war only to find this message at the loading screen. Read some of the threads regarding this issue but I am pretty sure we don't have anything inappropriate in our clan description. We never trash talk with it and our leader is the only one who gets to edit the description. I don't remember what we have in the message exactly but it is just some requirements for recruiting. There might be a "Clash on m*******" at the end but are you seriously going to ban the leader and the co's just for that? Can't you just send us a warning, contact the leader, or just get rid of the description? I feel like some clans are just treating this as a strategy to get an advantage in war and hopefully there will be some improvement.

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You said you read the threads regarding this issue, so you know that the leader/coleaders get a short ban for offensive descriptions. Shouldn't be a surprise to you that there was a ban.

Well, that thing at the end is what obviously caused this, and as it inappropriate for this game, SC has decided to take action and ban you. I hope you realize that the co-leaders and leaders must take responsibility for actions pertaining to the clan as a whole, involvement or not. There's responsibility that comes with power. Have fun waiting out your 2 day ban, nothing can really be done now.

Stupidest way to enforce a rule ever.

Utilizing this logic, should all of the SuperCell staff be banned? After all, any of them could have been the source of the update leaks, right?

Good work from Supercell

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Originally Posted by Zazooo

Title says it all. Tried to log on just now and get ready for war only to find this message at the loading screen. Read some of the threads regarding this issue but I am pretty sure we don't have anything inappropriate in our clan description. We never trash talk with it and our leader is the only one who gets to edit the description. I don't remember what we have in the message exactly but it is just some requirements for recruiting. There might be a "Clash on m*******" at the end but are you seriously going to ban the leader and the co's just for that? Can't you just send us a warning, contact the leader, or just get rid of the description? I feel like some clans are just treating this as a strategy to get an advantage in war and hopefully there will be some improvement.

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Wow, can someone clarify this for me please? Was the OP saying his whole clan got banned?? :rolleyes:

There is no way to know who edited the description last so everyone who can edit it must be punished. Next time make sure all members in a leader position understand the consequences of their actions

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Originally Posted by Snarg

Stupidest way to enforce a rule ever.

Utilizing this logic, should all of the SuperCell staff be banned? After all, any of them could have been the source of the update leaks, right?

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I know weve been in long disagreement on this issue.

But it as far as leaks go for a business, im sure heads start Rolling when a leak happens And of they dont find the source, the whole group receives at the very least an ear full. They didnt just say "oh another leak oh well" no someone was angry at someone, and it'll usually be department heads (also known as coleaders and leader in game)

In the clash world, i still stand by that leaders and coleaders are responsible for the tempo of the clan. All the cos in my clan know not to push the limit on clan description, and we dont. Haven't been banned or baited yet.

This wasnt a case of a random clan description, he finally admits after playing dumb that they routinely say a word that is censored. They got banned. That is your warning as its only for 2 days at most and will teach a lesson much faster than an email asking politely to follow the rules.

So you have words that you intentionally censored yourself in the OP in the description and you are still wondering why you got banned and claim you don't have anything inappropriate?

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Originally Posted by AxionXD

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I agree to agree with most of what you said :)

My logic does not fully apply to this particular case, as the OP stated they had a big, bad scary curse word in their description that apparently pierced someones tissue thin skin, thus causing deep emotional trauma. OP, sucks to be you but you kind of had it coming.

However, the logic of, 'ban the many because of the one', is still ridiculous. If I were a CO that had not logged on for two days and found myself banned when I did try and log on for actions I could not change or control, I would also be ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

I'm sorry SC, a multi-billion dollar company is too poor to hire more support staff and provide them with the tools they need. Maybe they need to farm harder.

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Originally Posted by Snarg

I agree to agree with most of what you said :)

My logic does not fully apply to this particular case, as the OP stated they had a big, bad scary curse word in their description that apparently pierced someones tissue thin skin, thus causing deep emotional trauma. OP, sucks to be you but you kind of had it coming.

However, the logic of, 'ban the many because of the one', is still ridiculous. If I were a CO that had not logged on for two days and found myself banned when I did try and log on for actions I could not change or control, I would also be ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

I'm sorry SC, a multi-billion dollar company is too poor to hire more support staff and provide them with the tools they need. Maybe they need to farm harder.

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It's not about staff or a lack of ability, leaders bear responsibility. If you are in a clan with irresponsible coleaders and the possibility of being banned while you sleep for an inappropriate clan description keeps you up at night, id ask for a demotion immediately.

Maybe its because i served in the military where mass punishment is routine. Effective too i might add. It forces everyone to police each other for fear of further disciplinary actions. If you continue to only punish the offenders, the other leaders will just move on. If you punish all the leaders, they will all become more vigilante in enforcing the rules among their organization. This act of mass punishment is to wake all the leaders up to ensure they start self regulating in accordance with Supercells TOS. You dont get the same effectiveness with a simple email to the leader. You also save time and energy this way too.

How many of the clans that fall victim of this will let it happen again? Very few. Id call that a success for Supercell with the least amount of effort.

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Originally Posted by AxionXD

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You must have been in the Army, where mass punishment seems to be routine. Thankfully I was in the Air Force where common sense prevailed :)

Anyway, I think we will each have our own opinion and will probably never agree with each other. In the end it does not matter as we don't own any part of the game.

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Originally Posted by Snarg

You must have been in the Army, where mass punishment seems to be routine. Thankfully I was in the Air Force where common sense prevailed :)

Anyway, I think we will each have our own opinion and will probably never agree with each other. In the end it does not matter as we don't own any part of the game.

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Door kicker all the way!

You have to see the reasoning though? You want people to self police, the only way to ensure everyone does their part to self regulate is if all the leaders are on the chopping block. It's not the best method for all forms of discipline, but when your goal is to take minimal action for maximum and long lasting result, this methodology for instilling a sense of responsibility to the leadership does work. With this type of punishment, you rarely see the same mistake twice.

A simple email to the leader can be ignored. One person getting banned can be ignored. So you want an escalation of force? Waiting several steps before the lesson can truly be learned would take too long when you can bypass all that and go for the hard knock lesson. Do it and you all suffer. That'll get every coleader to be much more vigilant to self regulating.

The Chair Force may never seen the necessity of this type of leadership training, but when lives matter, you don't want to make the same mistake twice and you don't have time to teach a lesson 30 times to 30 individuals.

Problem solved with one step. Only cost them a 2 day Clash vacation.

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Originally Posted by Gama321

So you have words that you intentionally censored yourself in the OP in the description and you are still wondering why you got banned and claim you don't have anything inappropriate?

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I didn't intentionally censor anything. We had the ***** instead of spelling anything out.

I've played for over 2 years now & have never had an incident…but find myself banned for 2 days following the update?? I haven't posted any rude comments or anything so it took me awhile to figure out what was going on. We declared war the Monday night…and at this point I can only assume the rival clan has reported me. Since clan wars came out I've always posted the same phony base during prep so other clan has less time to prep an attack. It's a silly middle finger looking thing(I'm no artist) in middle w rest of base spread out. No cuss words, dirty picts or anything…just seemed like a goofy thing that would not be offensive. I've never had a problem & have seen a ton more offensive stuff posted during war prep?? Not sure this is worthy of a 2day ban & seems like a strategy considering the time it must take to report something of questionable offense. I'm all for the banning of people they bully or offend…this just seems a bit intolerant, especially considering its hasn't been reported as so for what, almost a year now? A simple warning message would have sufficed and not cost my clan a war. My intentions were to have fun…not to offend. Very disappointed

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Originally Posted by aaronspears75

I've played for over 2 years now & have never had an incident…but find myself banned for 2 days following the update?? I haven't posted any rude comments or anything so it took me awhile to figure out what was going on. We declared war the Monday night…and at this point I can only assume the rival clan has reported me. Since clan wars came out I've always posted the same phony base during prep so other clan has less time to prep an attack. It's a silly middle finger looking thing(I'm no artist) in middle w rest of base spread out. No cuss words, dirty picts or anything…just seemed like a goofy thing that would not be offensive. I've never had a problem & have seen a ton more offensive stuff posted during war prep?? Not sure this is worthy of a 2day ban & seems like a strategy considering the time it must take to report something of questionable offense. I'm all for the banning of people they bully or offend…this just seems a bit intolerant, especially considering its hasn't been reported as so for what, almost a year now? A simple warning message would have sufficed and not cost my clan a war. My intentions were to have fun…not to offend. Very disappointed

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U post silly middle finger so u get a silly ban ha ha ha, c how it works lol
i love reporting silly people during war an getting them banned

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Originally Posted by aaronspears75

[...] but find myself banned for 2 days [...] It's a silly middle finger looking thing(I'm no artist) [...] this just seems a bit intolerant [...]

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you need to tolerate their decisions... this makes you intolerant, little picasso...

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Originally Posted by aaronspears75

I've played for over 2 years now & have never had an incident…but find myself banned for 2 days following the update?? I haven't posted any rude comments or anything so it took me awhile to figure out what was going on. We declared war the Monday night…and at this point I can only assume the rival clan has reported me. Since clan wars came out I've always posted the same phony base during prep so other clan has less time to prep an attack. It's a silly middle finger looking thing(I'm no artist) in middle w rest of base spread out. No cuss words, dirty picts or anything…just seemed like a goofy thing that would not be offensive. I've never had a problem & have seen a ton more offensive stuff posted during war prep?? Not sure this is worthy of a 2day ban & seems like a strategy considering the time it must take to report something of questionable offense. I'm all for the banning of people they bully or offend…this just seems a bit intolerant, especially considering its hasn't been reported as so for what, almost a year now? A simple warning message would have sufficed and not cost my clan a war. My intentions were to have fun…not to offend. Very disappointed

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As mentioned earlier...this has been gaining steam over the last few months. Plenty of discussion in this sub forum about it. Has nothing to do with the update. It only takes a few minutes for the offending base to be screen capped to SC from in-game. And they have been turning around quick with the bans that will last long enough to ensure you cannot participate in that war. Are clans using it to gain an advantage on the war? Yes. Should you have been smarter about it and not used that base design? Again, yes. Just because you got away with it for so long doesn't mean it was right to use. Look up the terms of service. You were in clear violation of them. I don't make the rules, SC does. Kinda like speeding...just because you do it for 6 months, then get caught- doesn't mean you don't get the ticket.

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Originally Posted by aaronspears75

I've played for over 2 years now & have never had an incident…but find myself banned for 2 days following the update?? I haven't posted any rude comments or anything so it took me awhile to figure out what was going on. We declared war the Monday night…and at this point I can only assume the rival clan has reported me. Since clan wars came out I've always posted the same phony base during prep so other clan has less time to prep an attack. It's a silly middle finger looking thing(I'm no artist) in middle w rest of base spread out. No cuss words, dirty picts or anything…just seemed like a goofy thing that would not be offensive. I've never had a problem & have seen a ton more offensive stuff posted during war prep?? Not sure this is worthy of a 2day ban & seems like a strategy considering the time it must take to report something of questionable offense. I'm all for the banning of people they bully or offend…this just seems a bit intolerant, especially considering its hasn't been reported as so for what, almost a year now? A simple warning message would have sufficed and not cost my clan a war. My intentions were to have fun…not to offend. Very disappointed

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You do know that "giving the finger" is representative of male genitalia so in effect your base would be considered offensive.