These wot moderators can be idiots. I've been avoiding buying gold over it.
Just tonight, I got a 7 day (!) ban for an innocent joke, I'll past the text excerpts.
KEAxCoPe (9:03:32 PM) How do you PM someone? I get PMs every now and then and I talk then but I don't know how to send one.
Craig234 (9:03:45 PM) kea add them as friend then right click
evanrafuse (9:05:26 PM) i dont aways hate but when i do i hate ******s lmfao
evanrafuse (9:05:48 PM) jking no harm done
Samelde (9:05:48 PM) evenrafuse - thats is bannable
Craig234 (9:05:52 PM) harm done.
krazyone (9:05:54 PM) evanrafuse 3d Offensive insults or derogatory comments based on race, nationality, religion, culture, sex, or sexual preference ~krazyone
familyroadster (9:05:56 PM) oooo...ban
WarKnight (9:05:58 PM) el oh el
TreeBurst82 (9:06:00 PM) lol
HVYDRNKR (9:06:03 PM) BAM!
RomDawg (9:06:04 PM) Good deal
RomDawg (9:06:13 PM) no needs that rasism crap
Samelde (9:06:22 PM) you go Krazyone
Craig234 (9:06:31 PM) if only we could ban the republican convetion speakers like that
WarKnight (9:06:37 PM) Lol Craig
Craig234 (9:06:55 PM) Mike Hucakabee ~3d homophobic policy advocacy
RomDawg (9:06:58 PM) lol
WarKnight (9:07:03 PM) Hah
TreeBurst82 (9:07:03 PM) ahhahahhaha craig.
familyroadster (9:07:06 PM) lo craig
TreeBurst82 (9:07:07 PM) ncie
krazyone (9:07:52 PM) Craig234 7d Moderator or administration impersonation ~krazyone
familyroadster (9:08:27 PM) krazy, that was just a ood joke
Update: petitions needing help have waited over a day for a response; the ticket about this ban was responded to - to use the word respond loosely - in 11 minutes. The person completely ignored the reason the seven day bad was placed, and cited the 'politics rule' and said the bad was correct.
Except the ban was nof for that, bans have never been issued in hundreds of similar comments I've seen, and the ban period for someone who ignores a mod warning on politics is far shorter, 1 day I think. And there's always a warning first.
Their response:
Dear Player ,
By playing the game you have accepted the End Users License Agreement (EULA) and supplementary documents, thus obligating yourself to read, understand and adhere to the World of Tanks Game Rules.
You can find the EULA, Terms of Service, and Game Rules at the following links:
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/forum-29/announcement-71-end-user-licence-agreement/
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/forum-29/announcement-77-world-of-tanks-terms-of-service/
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/forum-29/announcement-74-world-of-tanks-game-rules/
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/forum-29/announcement-76-world-of-tanks-forum-rules/
The following is a quote from the game rules:
"2. Prohibitions, restrictions and conditions of use, for all game chats and channels.
You agree not to do any of the following while using the Game or any Wargaming.net game chat or channels.
2.19. Discussion of social, religious, political, illegal or other controversial topics that may create offense is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to negative portrayal of religious and political figures is prohibited."
The following is a quote from the EULA:
"You agree not to do any of the following while using the Game or any WN public and battle chats, message boards, messenger-type and other communication features:
- Impersonate any person or entity, including but not limited to, the Game or other WN official, employee, representative or agent
- Discuss social, religious, political topics that create controversy as well as negatively portray religious and political figures."
This translates to all chat rooms, forums, and communication with support staff.
We have determined that your sanction was placed properly.
We thank you for your feedback, and hope that we have answered your questions. We look forward to seeing you back on the battle field.
Best Regards,
Jeff Lanier
Wargaming America Support
My response:
OK, so the text alone is too difficiult for you to interpret by yourself.
It was a joke, and was in no way an impersonation of a moderator, which is what the ban was for. The joke was explained - too bad we can't ban speakers the way we can ban players - with an example that in no way could be mistaken for impersonating an administrator, immediately following the joke explaining it, with no mod name, with no official rule listed. No one mistook it for an administrator and no one could.
That is the ban reason, not the one you cited. And the duration of the ban is for 7 days. Casual jokes about politics are made all the time - if there's too much the mod warns to stop and people stop or get a far shorter ban.
So you did not review the violation claimed by the moderator, with a 7 day ban, impersonating a moderator, which did not happen.
What did happen - after I was helping a user with a question the moderator ignored, which the only thing 'impersonating a moderator' - punish the mod for that - was people point out to the mod 'that was just a good joke'.