I have no fear of being banned. I’ve never had a fear of being banned (though I was once, but appealed, and I’m forever off the “Level 3” list on the boards).
But, no, no fear.
Let’s examine the consequences of getting banned.
I can’t play.
To quote Gene Wilder from Willy Wonka “Don’t. Stop. Come back.”
That said, I’m not out there trying to test the limits of, well, anything.
Those in control are very wishy washy however, you will absolutely 100% never have anything to fear if you 1) are a “yes” man for the company and defend every action they make, even the ones that most see as asinine 2) worship streamers and never EVER speak ill about them and 3) parrot others like yourself.
I know all that sounds bad or rude when you say it out loud. It’s not mean to sound bad but it’s true.
If you follow forum policy you have no fear, and will be good. Alot of folks tend to skip reading it and get shocked why they’ve been flagged, suspended or banned.
I tend to bypass anything involving politics it always turns into a warmode thread. I trend carefully on some topics, because people get triggered easily.
Just peruse the wow subreddit. Lots of examples of how people got banned on there. Some for insanely innocuous reasons. I remember one guy got banned for joking in trade chat (using sarcasm). Alas, the GM didn’t see it that way.
Not really, because I can’t see a situation in which you would be banned for no reason. You’d really have to do something worthy of being banned in order to actually be banned, and those things are fairly obviously highlighted.
Do people actually have this fear? If you don’t do anything wrong, you won’t get banned. If you are afraid of getting banned, it is likely because there is a reason to why you could possibly be banned, thus there is a reason. Its as simple as that.
That’s unfortunately not 100% correct. You can still follow the policy and still be suspended/banned. This is largely due to the fact that the code of conduct is written strategically vague. Terms like “non-constructive” which encompass over 90% of all comments made on this forum.
No, I’ve never been afraid of getting banned for no reason. I got that see through pigeon exotic hunter pet and wanted to name it “Pooper”, but the profanity filter wouldn’t let me. That’s how I roll.