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Jemcrystal

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Sovrath

Jemcrystal said:

YOU GET BANNED FOR REPORTING BUGS

Unless I can see your exact posts or post history I think I'll take a "hmmm hmmmmmm" stance.

This is not to say there aren't some extremely unprofessional people in the game development world. But over the years, whenever someone has posted a "I got banned for just being honest, I got banned for telling the truth, I got banned for reporting x, y and z" post, I'd look at their post(s) and see the rest of the story and realize "sure, of course they got banned.

Still, taking your complaint at face value, I'm sure that you can contact customer service and they will see that you were just adding some information.

WBadger

https://imgur.com/a/QcecP4w  (first two was from their report, third post from the other player's report)

you were pretty snarky, and I imagine the snarkyness combined with you double posting in your report instead of editing the response (mind you I'm not familiar with ark forums so I'm only assuming they have an edit post feature) is why they banned you for spam.

Sovrath

WBadger said:

https://imgur.com/a/QcecP4w  (first two was from their report, third post from the other player's report)

you were pretty snarky, and I imagine the snarkyness combined with you double posting in your report instead of editing the response (mind you I'm not familiar with ark forums so I'm only assuming they have an edit post feature) is why they banned you for spam.

@gem: ok gem, thank you for being the rule and not the exception.

and badger gets an "insightful" for the find.

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Hashbrick

My guess is and this is like I said a guess.  Posting bugs elsewhere than a bug area/report.

Sovrath

Wargfoot said:

I don't think 3 single line posts over a 12 hr. period count as spam.
I'd argue the second post is actually clarifying the first post - offering additional information.
The third post is where it gets gratuitous - mods seem a little thin skinned over there.

Given the way ARK has been going I'm not sure banning frustrated players from the forums is the route to take unless this player has an established history of this sort of behavior.

I think "tell me this wasn't done on purpose" and "that would be like caring if the game worked correctly" would push moderator buttons.

If this was indicative of Gem's post history then it's sort of a no-brainer.

WBadger

Wargfoot said:

I don't think 3 single line posts over a 12 hr. period count as spam.
I'd argue the second post is actually clarifying the first post - offering additional information.
The third post is where it gets gratuitous - mods seem a little thin skinned over there.

Given the way ARK has been going I'm not sure banning frustrated players from the forums is the route to take unless this player has an established history of this sort of behavior.

Sorry, to specify the third post is in another player's thread on asking other players if they were having problems with transferring characters.  All speculation of course on why the ban is, mods could have also looked at the post in the other player's thread as hijacking their report and counted it as spam.  Also going through their post history (on the ark forums, not here) the rest of their posts are fairly along the same lines as the ones i posted in the imgur.

Ungood

I am going to say, it was a bit of the mod being a jerk and the poster being a jerk. No one is really sinless in that little fiasco.

Kyleran

Ungood said:

I am going to say, it was a bit of the mod being a jerk and the poster being a jerk. No one is really sinless in that little fiasco.

I can only imagine how many months I'd be banned for if being a snarky jerk was a punishable offense here.

  

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Sovrath

Wargfoot said:

Sovrath said:

Wargfoot said:

I don't think 3 single line posts over a 12 hr. period count as spam.
I'd argue the second post is actually clarifying the first post - offering additional information.
The third post is where it gets gratuitous - mods seem a little thin skinned over there.

Given the way ARK has been going I'm not sure banning frustrated players from the forums is the route to take unless this player has an established history of this sort of behavior.

I think "tell me this wasn't done on purpose" and "that would be like caring if the game worked correctly" would push moderator buttons.

If this was indicative of Gem's post history then it's sort of a no-brainer.

I certainly maintain the right of any game forum to ban as they see fit.
I've often wondered why obviously destructive members of the community weren't banned.

A time out may be appropriate, a permanent ban would seem over the  top.

Frankly, if I owned a game I don't even know if I'd have official forums.

For my taste, I like the idea of a time out except for very extreme circumstances.

Ungood

Kyleran said:

Ungood said:

I am going to say, it was a bit of the mod being a jerk and the poster being a jerk. No one is really sinless in that little fiasco.

I can only imagine how many months I'd be banned for if being a snarky jerk was a punishable offense here.

  

I am not sure if I would last a day... 

Ungood

Wargfoot said:

Kyleran said:

Ungood said:

I am going to say, it was a bit of the mod being a jerk and the poster being a jerk. No one is really sinless in that little fiasco.

I can only imagine how many months I'd be banned for if being a snarky jerk was a punishable offense here.

  

I assumed MMORPG was the meeting place for everyone banned from official game forums.

MMORPG feels more like a place for people who do have active forum accounts on other games, and we come here to vent.. just so we can KEEP our game forums accounts from being banned.

Elsabolts

My guess is there is more to this story ?

MadFrenchie

That's because bugs and glitches are kind of this dev's shtick.  Just see their sophomore title, Atlas.  

Asheram

I dont know about ARK but if they do the same shit they do with the steam forums for Atlas basically ignore it and have no presence there what so ever even though thats the bloody place you buy, download and log into the game then spam them more on their "golden forums".

Jemcrystal

My ban was lifted but I don't feel safe from posting on Ark's main forums anymore.  The moderator is a nut case.  Looking for places where we can talk openly about Ark Survival and what the devs are doing without worrying about a ban or reprisal from the forum moderator.

Steam isn't safe they look at you there.  Reddit isn't safe they attack you on the main forum for anything you say on Reddit as well.

Gamefaqs has their own personal asshat moderator tho they used to be the best place to post long ago.  

VideoGameGeek seems okay so far but I haven't used them much.

Albatroes

Glitches? Don't you mean features? lol

Xarko

Get glitched!

Dvora

You should be able to sue for free speech infringement!  Kidding... but if the 3 posts were really all there was, they are definitely over the top snarkiness or no, especially with SPAM being the excuse.  The MOD is a dick who should lose his job.

Amathe

They just seem very sensitive about making multiple posts.

It also could be the dodos. You can't trust them. That's why in real life we got rid of the dodo. 

Thane

well, you don't report bugs on the forum. posting glitches on forums is one thing:
sharing exploits.

and you wonder why you got banned? cool story
and no, i don't play ark. but logic is logic. don't. share. exploits/glitches.

what did you think would happen? that they'd "fix the glitch faster bc you make more people use it"? 
cute. wanna buy a monkey?

ChildoftheShadows

It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. Most of the time. 

Panther2103

ChildoftheShadows said:

It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. Most of the time. 

Also based on how they talk about every forum and refer to mods as "asshats" I'm pretty sure they aren't saying things in the most constructive way.