Got muted for political reasons (most likely)

Started 20 Feb 2019
by Sheltem
in Tavern
Hi everyone,
not super excited to make this post, especially because I like the Phoenix Server so much.

However the following occured to me:

There was a heated EU/NA debate going on in /advice along the lines of political nature. Mostly the ubiquitous gender/libtard/socialism thing.

Since the discussion became heated ->
I DID make one offensive comment in /advice, which I wont hide: I did say that US could continue to suck their own C***. The lead up to this was the US raid bragging about their superiority about 27 times not an hour into the raid (TG). What is kinda funny because I said the same thing in the US TG raid and no one cared about it. (Deleted my mids after)

ALL of my other statements in /advice where purely a) giving advice to other people or b) discussing politics the same way other people used /advice. It seems very apparent that most of /adv in hib at that point was very right wing extremist leaning.

Later on I joined a group with a character called JordanPeterson ClinicalPsychologist. I won't go into depth on this since I am a psychologist myself and I really don't want to open the box of pandora discussing this. Personally I feel like he casts a bad light on our profession and as such I do not want to partake in anything related to hin. As such I told my group I would leave for political reasons.

Following these events I found myself unable to broadcast any message, most notably I could no longer /lfg xp, which as a druid made the game pretty much completley unplayable for me.

I'll be honest. I love this server and the game and it has brought great joy to me. However if I am unable to express my opinion and will get muted and unable to pursue groups because my opinion is unpopular I will no longer be playing this game.

Note: You CAN say: "but your comment was very offensive". I would argue reading advice chat all day, that MANY people more would be muted if this was the case.

Kind regards,
Sheltem
Wed 20 Feb 2019 7:08 AM by Sepplord
how do you know others didn't alo get muted?
Have you reported others abusing advice chat, so staff know which accounts to investigate?

did you get any message at all? (afaik they notify you when they ban you from a channel)


in the end you broke the rules and got punished. Your opinion (probably) didn't effect the decision



Reach out to the staff on discord and they can tell you how long the chatban will be in place. I would guess 24hours, so maybe just wait that long and if it doesn't fix itself contact them.




PS: i was under the impression that you would only be banned from Advice but you say you cannot chat at all? Could you clarify that? Maybe there is also a bug and you weren't banned at all
Wed 20 Feb 2019 7:17 AM by Uthred
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Wed 20 Feb 2019 7:33 AM by Uthred
Just a friendly reminder to everyone and to make it pretty clear:

The advice chat is to help your realmmates and NOT for insults, spam, offtopic or any political talk. It is for daoc topics only and to help players. If you dont want to help, just dont use it.

We are aware of the fact that sometimes the channel gets really out of hand and if we are seeing this, we will mute and warn people. If YOU would really like the server that much as you are posting in this thread, then you wouldnt act like this. You would just play the game, enjoy it and not try to cause trouble.

If people just would behave, they would save the whole team so much time and we would be able to focus on things like bug fixing, working on appeals and many more. But thanks to such toxix behaviour we have to waste a lot of time every day to keep the chat and/or even the forum clean.

Thank you very much. Not.
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