Quote Originally Posted by ararax2 View Post
Actually I know one player this happened to. He hasnt posted in a while but I know he posted up to a year after his ban.

Honestly in spite of the fact that sometimes it seems like moderators are going after you hard, the best thing to do is just stop caring.

Just take a month or 5 off from the forums and say it aint worth it to fight.

Many of my infractions came from responding to trolls who really just kept moving the conversation in the wrong way.

They aren't worth it.
Perhaps this is well intended advice but it seems to me that this is an example of just how poorly supported the community here is by the mods in the first place. If you cannot rely on moderators to be positive influence on the threads here rather than the reverse, all you are left with is "walk away." Sad.

In the years I have been playing this game and coming here, I have seen this community go further downhill in terms of being able to openly discuss practically *anything critical of the game and the forums management in particular* without having insults, snarky retorts and general rudeness being directed at them from the *moderators* not just other players. I think if we had moderators who were a positive influence instead of being bent on encouraging and actually inciting nasty responses from players the forums community would be in a pretty different place right now.

So it isn't just about the fight. It's about character at the end of the day - in so far as people can and do have bad days, bad reactions and so forth, it doesn't excuse repeated behavior once it gets established over the course of years that such is their general way of communicating. In the case of some people here, and DEFINITELY some of the moderators, this is especially true. The writing - literally - is already on the wall