I Miss Boem...

Reminder that, even a week later, Boem is still on probation...

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Exile009 wrote:

(...)he was one of the more articulate people on this forum and so well worth at least paying attention to.

Boem?

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yamface wrote:

(...)lul articulate.

RIP Boem.

Peace - Vendetta -



Hey this is fun, writing like a semi pseudo intellectual writer.

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yamface wrote:

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Exile009 wrote:

I didn't necessarily agree with all the stuff he said, but he was one of the more articulate people on this forum and so well worth at least paying attention to.

The guy reminds me of my aging grandpa who spends his time rambling endlessly on off-tangent shit. But ok lul articulate.

I'm with dave on this one. I have no idea how people get banned on the forums. I spend half my time intentionally flaring toxic flamewars, and I've had countless posts deleted because of politics/religion. Never been banned once. I know that sounds like bullshit for someone like me, but I haven't.

You get on probation when some kid reports your posts because he thought that you bashed him about stealing his mom's credit card to buy MTX.

Try it out, that got me a full day of probation. And I wasn't even insinuating something, I just said that he reminds me of that kind of attitude :)).

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Exile009 wrote:

Meanwhile obvious troll threads like this keep on coming, and nothing is done about them - https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2880800

Let's not forget about these from the same person:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2794105
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2590086

If what this guy posts and replies doesn't constitute inflammatory behaviour then i'm at a loss for what does.

I do share the sentiment that it's sad to see the pillars of discussion around here slowly crumble, whether or not you agreed with Boem / Charan / etc; the one thing I do know for sure is that they knew how to keep an interesting conversation going.

It's easy to point fingers at individual flaws here, but when you have an army of K*****ro clones brigading their "unique" opinions around the forums with 0 consequence it really puts a damper on the desire to even come here to read let alone post.

I posted a thread about 5 years ago now saying how much I loved the style of discussion and the openness here in the PoE forums, and it's saddening to take an objective look at the events of the past few years and realise that it just isn't the case anymore.

:(

So I just learned that apparently there is such a thing as permanent probation. Explains a lot...

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Exile009 wrote:

So I just learned that apparently there is such a thing as permanent probation. Explains a lot...

That's odd. Normally it would say "banned".

Probation, typically means that return to full function after a period of time. Otherwise this is dumb wording. Permanent Probation is an oxymoron.

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DarthSki44 wrote:

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Exile009 wrote:

So I just learned that apparently there is such a thing as permanent probation. Explains a lot...

That's odd. Normally it would say "banned".

Probation, typically means that return to full function after a period of time. Otherwise this is dumb wording. Permanent Probation is an oxymoron.

Banning suggests to people that they committed a crime or cheated in some way. I suppose they don't want to imply that, as it creates a legal liability, while still retaining the ability to permanently disbar someone from the forums.

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Exile009 wrote:

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DarthSki44 wrote:

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Exile009 wrote:

So I just learned that apparently there is such a thing as permanent probation. Explains a lot...

That's odd. Normally it would say "banned".

Probation, typically means that return to full function after a period of time. Otherwise this is dumb wording. Permanent Probation is an oxymoron.

Banning suggests to people that they committed a crime or cheated in some way. I suppose they don't want to imply that, as it creates a legal liability, while still retaining the ability to permanently disbar someone from the forums.

last time i discussed the wrong topic my account got locked.
and unlocked after i cleared that up with support by mail.

at that time i got a glimpse of the reasons why people moved to reddit

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The_Impeacher wrote:

Who?

There always has to be one.

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Exile009 wrote:

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DarthSki44 wrote:

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Exile009 wrote:

So I just learned that apparently there is such a thing as permanent probation. Explains a lot...

That's odd. Normally it would say "banned".

Probation, typically means that return to full function after a period of time. Otherwise this is dumb wording. Permanent Probation is an oxymoron.

Banning suggests to people that they committed a crime or cheated in some way. I suppose they don't want to imply that, as it creates a legal liability, while still retaining the ability to permanently disbar someone from the forums.

More importantly, if you're 'banned', you can make another account; in fact, you're encouraged to, because you have to buy those mtxes all over again on a fresh account. Whatever got you banned, hope you learned your lesson. With the effectively-eternal probation status, that option isn't open to you. Make another account to post here, it'll be permanently probated too. You're not welcome here, period. You have been deemed incorrigible. Beyond redemption. You can still play, of course, and please do keep buying those mtxes, but your presence on this forum is absolutely denied in perpetuity.