Ban/Restriction Announcements

[Kublai Khan]

drmyshottyizsik has been banned for 3 days for using language that uses race, gender, sexual orientation or disability to insult or offend.

[singersigner]

Albert B. Rampage has been banned from joining any new games for three weeks for repeated harrassment of other players, and promoting the discussion of a site ban. He does not need to be replaced in any games.

Edit: the posts in question are involved in a larger discussion that has been removed from public access.

[N]

Frozen Angel has been banned from all mafia games for three weeks for talking about ongoing games outside the game thread and for continued abusive behaviour. She must be replaced in any game she is currently in, including as a hydra.

[singersigner]

Pisskop has been banned from all mafia games for two weeks for talking about ongoing games outside the game thread and for abusive behavior. He must be replaced in any games he is currently in, including as a hydra.

[T-Bone]

BROseidon has been banned from joining new games for one week following abusive posts made in a game.

[MattP]

vonflare has been banned for 1 week from Discussion forums and site chat for baiting and trolling another user both in site chat and by PM, as well as encouraging others to troll the user.

[T-Bone]

Garmr has been banned from all mafia games for 2 months for repeated abusive posting, such as here and here. He will need to be replaced in all games he is currently in, including alts and hydras.

[LlamaFluff]

Flubbernugget has been banned from joining any new games for two months due to posting pornographic images in a game.

[Kublai Khan]

drmyshottyizsik has been banned from discussion forums for 2 weeks for ban evasion in the Title Fairy thread.

Firebringer has been banned from discussion forums for 2 weeks for ban evasion in the Title Fairy thread.

[Untrod Tripod]

SethYazura has been banned from joining new games for two weeks for using violent sexualized language against another site user in a mafia game. Also worth noting is use of ableist language in the same game, which would have merited a warning on its own.

[zoraster]

Majiffy is now unbanned from playing Mafia games. He is limited to playing in two games in the first month of his ban being removed. He has also been informed that any actions against him, even fairly minor ones, will result in his return to the indefinite ban list.

[N]

SethYazura has been banned from all mafia games for a further two weeks for using violent sexualized language against another site user in a mafia game directly after a previous ban. He will need to be replaced in all games he is currently alive in.

[zoraster]

OceanWind has been banned permanently for being the alt of a previously banned user (F-16_Fighting_Falcon). Any games he is currently in will need to find a replacement.

[N]

ShadyHood has been banned from all Mafia games for one month for deliberately breaking the rules against contacting a player outside of the game and trying to hide it. He needs to be replaced in all games he is currently alive in.

[zoraster]

Kappy has been banned from Site Chat for 7 days for spam.

[zoraster]

ShadyHood has been banned from all Mafia games for one month for deliberately breaking the site rules. (Details to come.) He needs to be replaced in all games he is currently alive in.

ShadyHood has been indefinitely site banned for trying to threaten users via PM for reporting his breaking of site rules in games.

[Shadoweh]

Drmyshottyizsik has been banned for 3 months from Discussion Forums, Administration Forums, and Site Chat.

Drmyshottyizsik has received multiple warnings and multiple recent bans for breaking site rules. A ban serves the purpose of having users not engage in continuous patterns of behavior that break site rules once the ban is lifted. It isn't lightly that we enact longer bans, but we consider the following rule-breaking behaviors to merit a longer ban:

Universal Site Rules - Prohibited Actions - Rule 1:

Threads and series of posts that are no or low content may also be considered spam.

Drmyshottyizsik has posted under multiple threads with excessive spam. Listed below is one example of spamming, following a moderator stepping into the thread discouraging continued spamming:

[spoiler="Speakeasy User Popularity Poll" thread.]

shitposting

A THING I'M GOOD AT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Endles quote pyramids, somone get kappy in here!

I'm sorry for my spamming I thought, as a thread we agreed to do this.

I'm sorry for my spamming I thought, as a thread we agreed to do this.

Yes, that's a couple of entire pages that have little to do with the topic at all. Stay classy, MS.

Sadly a lot of threads turn to this.

Yeah, I'm not going to call anyone out by name (and this applies to too many people to single anyone out), but as a PSA, it would be nice if everyone toned down the spamming/shitposting in this thread a bit.

p-edit: dammit, myko!

I'm sorry I will stop

The obvious solution to this is for people to shitpost until Chev cannot stand it any longer and has to update. Keep it up everyone.

I took this way too seriously, I'm sorry

sorry *shy and shameful red face*

aw don't feel bad, it's the speak easy. I still don't understand why it's no longer 62, but eh

Quote Pyramid go! Cheetory is right we need to shit post!

[/spoiler]

General Site Rules - Basic Conduct - Rules 1 & 2:

1. Do not make any post or start any thread with the intent to insult or offend any other user on this site.

2. Do not make any post or start any thread that abuses or harasses another user.

Drmyshottyizsik made a thread titled "Kublai Khan" with the intent of harassing the user and encouraging others to do the same. Users are allowed to critique behavior and decisions specific to the role of a moderator, but opening a thread asking for open-ended thoughts about a user and then saying the user is "in a mood today" is not a mod-specific complaint, it is an attempt to generally harass a user, which is against site rules. Being a moderator doesn't open the floor to the moderator being personally harassed.

[spoiler="Kublai Khan" thread.]

thoughts?

no

none?

Actually, one. He made me change "fucking" in my signature to "freaking."

ya he's a knob like that

I don't know, he is in a mood today.

[/spoiler]

General Site Rules - Specific Conduct - Rule 4:

Testing the boundaries of the rules to see what you can get away with will likely result in moderator action.

Encouraging other users to engage in banworthy behavior qualifies as testing the boundaries of site rules. This is clearly inappropriate behavior.

[spoiler="First one banned wins" thread.]

Go

Can't see this thread being a good idea.

why not? I don't think it violates any rules that I'm aware of does it?

DO NOT UNLOCK A MOD LOCKED THREAD.

[/spoiler]

General Site Rules - Specific Conduct - Rule 8:

Other content may be inappropriate and will be acted on at the discretion of the moderators.

Reopening a thread after a moderator has locked it, as linked in the prior spoiler, is also clearly inappropriate behavior.

Finally, Drmyshottyizsik has PM'd users falsely suggesting that once he buys the Mafiascum site from mith he will ban them. This sets up a false sense of authority and leads users to falsely believe Drmyshottyizsik will soon have power to punish them, which can deter users from posting normally or feeling comfortable on the site.

[zoraster]

Axxle has been indefinitely banned. We have multiple reports of two different situations where he attempted to engage in sexual behavior with women from mafiascum without their consent. To be clear, these reports do not involve the most recent meetups, but I have only become aware of this activity now.

[N]

Killthestory has been banned from joining new games for two weeks for not reading his role pm and for a pattern of abusive behavior.

[MattP]

Flubbernugget has been banned for 2 weeks from Discussion Forums, with removal of Speakeasy access, for creating a thread in Speakeasy linking to an unspoilered page (now edited out from the original post) with a gory image and pornographic text.

Universal Site Rules - Prohibited Actions - Rule 6:

Posting particularly gory or otherwise disturbing images (at the discretion of the forum moderators) - Links to such material should include an appropriate warning (NSFW, for example) and should be spoilered.

[zoraster]

Long term Discussion bans will now result in loss of read access to the relevant forums for that period (shorter term bans will retain read access). Users will still be able to read Help, Site Ideas, News, etc.

EDIT: The change has been reverted for General Discussion (guests can access that area anyway), but currently remains for Speakeasy and GTKAS.

[Glork]

Drmyshottyizsik has been banned for 3 months from Discussion Forums, Administration Forums, and Site Chat.

Drmyshottyizsik's ban has been changed to sitewide, due to harassment of another user via PM.

The duration of the ban has not changed, only the scope of the ban. He will have to be replaced in any mafia games he is playing in.

[zoraster]

Drmyshottyizsik has been banned for 3 months from Discussion Forums, Administration Forums, and Site Chat.

Drmyshottyizsik's ban has been changed to sitewide, due to harassment of another user via PM.

The duration of the ban has not changed, only the scope of the ban. He will have to be replaced in any mafia games he is playing in.

drmyshottyizsik has been indefinitely banned for ban evasion.

[Mina]

Flubbernugget/Smiles has been banned from all Mafia games for three months for joining a newbie game under an alt while serving his previous ban on joining new games. He must be replaced in any games he is currently in.

As a reminder, experienced players are not allowed to /in for fresh newbie slots under an alt. It is also the user's responsibility to read the terms of a ban carefully, so claiming ignorance is not an excuse for ban evasion.

[Equinox]

Davsto and Thestatusquo have been banned from Site Chat for two weeks due to abusive language directed at another user and refusing to stop after repeated warnings.