If you like. I just hope that either talking about it elsewhere or having people talk on my behalf is not counted against me.I can back up your appeal if you'd like. I'll probably get a warning but I hate "Don't argue with the mods" rules anyway.
I can back up your appeal if you'd like. I'll probably get a warning but I hate "Don't argue with the mods" rules anyway.
In all seriousness, though, go and give your view if you are willing, because now that I have said "others have offered to back me up", it looks really bad if noone does.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/appeals/1367
OK, unfortunately noone else has the ability to post there. Which makes a sort of sense. I have linked them here instead.Odd, link redirects to page with bold text saying Forbidden, and "You do not have access to perform that action."
Someone else on my university's network used a MCF account to troll, and because it was on the same IP as me (being the same network), I got flagged as making an alt and banned from posting for 5 days.Sorry to ruin things for you oh mysterious and powerful dragon @Reika but what happened?
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Theoretically, yes. Given this is the network of an entire university with about 60000 students enrolled, I find this to be completely unacceptable.That's ridiculous. Then anyone who uses a public network is open to such bans.
Probably not. I obviously have no data on the percentage of students who were not in class and use the MCF, but I suspect there were at minimum 50, if not more.Also... Why ASSUME it was you? I can't imagine on a campus with 60k+ students that you are the ONLY one on mcf. I'd be interested to see if you were the only one to get such punishment.
Not that they told me, no.Did they cite any other evidence linking you to the account other than the public IP claim? There's got to be SOMETHING else or that's a really unprofessional policy.
Because MCF's moderation team is a factory farm that handles a less polite/mature set than the one we handle here and they apparently err on the side of over-enforcement while going about the mountain of moderation work they have to handle. I think it's a dumb policy too (Especially for any forum that's >1 year old and >1k users) but I can understand how it got picked in the triage of moderation bandwidth concerns (something's gotta give, sometimes).Also... Why ASSUME it was you? I can't imagine on a campus with 60k+ students that you are the ONLY one on mcf. I'd be interested to see if you were the only one to get such punishment.
But to pick out one person who used that particular service is beyond asinine. I understand dealing with a less mature crowd. But as it stands I see it as being a case of example setting. Granted I do not know if reika was the only one from this up to receive such a ban.Because MCF's moderation team is a factory farm that handles a less polite/mature set than the one we handle here and they apparently err on the side of over-enforcement while going about the mountain of moderation work they have to handle. I think it's a dumb policy too (Especially for any forum that's >1 year old and >1k users) but I can understand how it got picked in the triage of moderation bandwidth concerns (something's gotta give, sometimes).
Depending on the level of access and technical capability of the moderator in this case, they may have zero context beyond "IP match", too. I habitually run iplocation whenever dealing with anything on the IP layer, but then again I also admin a site where we've historically had a heavy academic presence (faculty and students), so I'm prepared on that.
There's a whole quasi-political screed on the nature of bureaucracies, bureaucrats, and the enshrinement of "policies and procedures" I would launch into, but I don't think I want to suggest the implementation of a Bureaucrat NPC into RotaryCraft, so I'll leave it at that here.But to pick out one person who used that particular service is beyond asinine. I understand dealing with a less mature crowd. But as it stands I see it as being a case of example setting. Granted I do not know if reika was the only one from this up to receive such a ban.