darkpower
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Here's the update, the PM from who I guess was the mod that did it:
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5 hours ago | By: Diselage | Block
Banning If you don't want a ban don't break the rules. There is no need to insult people period. If you feel the need to do it though go to the Open Zone.
(Note that this was NOT the mod that I had PMed. I've yet to hear from him)
Here's my reply to that:
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50 minutes ago | By: darkpower | Edit Delete
Re: Banning Well, look at how Breakfast reports people...I know that I've seen him level so many insults (and I'm sure you've gotten reports about him and the several other X360 fanboys on here that seem to get away with it all the time). He has used it in the past as a weapon, and I know my "insults" (if you could call them that. I don't think it was an insult, as I was talking about his comment) were tame compared to the crap he has pulled (as well as the other x360 fanboys around here. I'm sure that you immediately go after any PS3 "fanboy" on this site the second you get any report like this). They get off easy while I lose three bubbles and get banned for 6 days from the gamer zone, especially when it's tame compared to the crap you've been seeing and hearing about on the GAMER ZONE (and remember, I was replying to something that he made in the GAMER ZONE, so it wasn't like I had much of a choice, it's as if he was trying to GET someone to say something like that and bait them into doing that because he knew he'd get someone. I've seen these guys do that, too), I think is way too harsh and I would love more answers into just what happened to make that "insult" SO bad to warrant such actions, especially if that is the first time for me. I think I deserve more of an explanation besides what you gave. And if you don't do so, I might go to someone else or whoever I got to go to in order to have this resolved, because:
1) I value my reputation on this site as someone who is passionate about his opinions (by the way, my opinion about him being an idiot still stands, and is now even more so because he showed his true colors and reported someone because his feelings were hurt).
2) The punishment was WAY harsh.
I think I deserve more of an explanation and more of an investigation than this. Thank you. Look forward into hearing what you have to say.
I've just sent that some time before posting this, so I haven't gotten anything back about that yet.
And right now, I do sincerely feel as if I was a victim of someone baiting me (or someone) to do something like that to him in order to have happen to him what happened to me.
Because my main concern in all of this has been that I have been calling some people out (mainly the X360 fanboys that run rampant on the Gamer Zone with much more than I did, if I did anything at all) on their "facts", and so have others. Lately, there have been some creative ways that these certain people have gone to in order to "weed out" the people that usually post opinions that they do not want anyone else to read (there have been a few people who which they have done this to besides me). In other words, they become report whores, for lack of a better term. They use the report button on someone that they know that someone will find valid because they have a personal issue with what they said in terms of facts and stuff like that. This has been true of alot of these people on the site lately with news stories (don't like what the story says? Report it so no one even gets a chance to see it, facts in the ariticle be damned), and now it's happening with the people who have been posting on this site.
Recently, too (which raises my suspicion even more), Breakfast (STILL the one who I think pulled the trigger) made a comment about a Metal Gear Solid 4 review that found its way onto N4G.com, in which he was wanting to submit the review to Metacritic in order to have one yellow bar on that site for the game (since all the other "bars" from other reviews that Metacritic considers were green and Breakfast has clearly shown his X360 fanboyism in the past). I had pointed out in a reply to that (this was something he posted onto the comments section, in the Gamer Zone, as well) that it was underhanded of him to do such a thing, and saying it as a joke (assuming it was one) wasn't funny. The suspicion from this is that if he is willing to do something as slimy as that, there is no doubting, at least from my persepctive, that there was something he was trying to do with alot of his posts, as well.
Also keep in mind that this post in question of MINE was in reply to something that he had said in the Gamer Zone. It would've been hard to reply to something that was in the Gamer Zone in the Open Zone without some explanation into who or what I'm talking about (THAT post shouldn't have been in the gamer zone anyway because it didn't add to the conversation). And the trigger was pulled awfully quick to the comment. Which raises my ire even more to this that he was trying to set someone up with that comment that he knew would make a comment that some mod might take as an insult to someone, and BAM, he does it (there was another post below mine that I think was even tamer than my own, but it was deleted and possibly reported, as well). And if he had posted it on the Open Zone and I've said that exact same thing, how would he change his tone in order to make it seem like I was doing something ELSE wrong with that comment? Simpily put, he was trying to get the first person he could with that comment, and I just happened to be that guy that he caught in his trap.
Also, it pains me that I didn't get any further explanation into what happened, which also angers me and surprises me. His explanation is nearly the exact same as the explanation I got in that pop-up window I got when I tried to comment in the Gamer Zone today that made me discover this ban in the first place (I swear he may have actually halfway copied that word for word), which made me wonder why the type of ban and bubble penelty was appropriate for something that was tame (believe it or not, I think idiot is alot tamer than the words I've seen here, and is tame on its own accord). The mod that apparently did this didn't give me any further explanation into the ban itself, let alone how severe it was (it was as if he was saying "how dare you question why you were banned for it?", which is kind of rude on its own and implies that I've always done this type of thing and that I should forever be branded as a criminal because of it).
Seriously, I feel like my reputation has been unfairly damaged because I was caught in this trap, and the mod that did it seemed to just not give a crap about what my side of things are. I'm STILL awaiting the answer from someone higher up on this site as to what EXACTLY happened here (instead of giving me a fill in the blank answer that paints me guilty until proven innocent (GUPI), as this is my first major problem of this kind on this site, and I would like to think that these mods are fair, but it doesn't look like I'm getting a fair treatment right now), and assuming I ever get one, I'm not sure how that will play out. How should I know if the mod was in on the consperiacy and is a hard X360 fanboy, as well (hell, the same Torrence Davis who I was talking about was asking about getting mod status on this forum, I read his posts, so I do believe there has to be someone who has malicious intentions in mind by using authority as a weapon, too). Of course, he could not be one at all and still have done the wrong thing, but then again, how can I know that wasn't the case (the lackluster reply to this only raised my suspicions to this, so I apologize if the fanboy thing wasn't the case here, but I think I have every right to believe that there was something else in play here). The harsh penelty only furthers my suspicions.
So, what up? That's my plea. Hopefully I get some reply which at least tells me that something will happen to make this fair and restore my faith in the mods (believe me, if I thought I deserved such a ban and penelty, I wouldn't be complaining about it this much, and seeing as how I've been very well respected to this point on this site by other members, I think you may want to look at my record before paining me as GUPI or thinking that I would just go around doing this sort of thing all the time like the offending mod did. Trust me, something defenitly was up here).
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