Moderation on the Football PDF

I’m honestly just trying to wrap my head around how the moderation rules actually work on this Football forum, because frankly, I’m lost. Sure, I’ve taken a few cards that I totally deserved, but most of the ones that eventually landed me a ban were complete nonsense to me.

Like, if you even breathe a word against NFL fans or the Kansas City Chiefs—and yeah, I’m a huge Chiefs fan, by the way—you get slapped with a card immediately. Just look at the other day when I got hit with thirty points for being "off-topic," while everyone else was talking about the exact same thing without getting flagged. It’s like there's no consistency; either it's off-topic or it isn't. If we're going to play this game, fine, punish everyone equally for their mistakes, right?
Just take a look at pages 200 through 204 in the "white corner" thread.

In my opinion, I basically painted a target on my back by posting in the "NFL fans" thread, which clearly rubbed the moderators the wrong way due to their own biased takes. Mods shouldn't be handing out cards based on their personal feelings; they should be doing it based on actual rule violations. Is the NFL fan base or the Kansas City Chiefs really so fragile that they can't handle a few dissenting opinions? Instead, it's just immediate accusations of lying and instant cards.
When I replied to this post using these comments, I got hit with 35 points. How on earth is that considered trolling?

And don't even get me started on the fact that after I filed an appeal—both directly in the thread and through the Democratic Party—I haven't heard back from anyone explaining who I supposedly insulted to earn a 45-point penalty. To me, it feels like people are being put on blacklists here.

So why on earth did it say 45 points for an insult then?
I'm asking about the penalty on the appeals page.

Look, maybe try actually reading what I’m saying before you jump in with an answer. I honestly think this is a textbook example of how moderators behave over on the Football subreddit.

Anyway, football thanks and goodbye, since it's pretty clear we aren't going to get anywhere if nobody's actually reading the posts.😎 ☕

You didn't get slapped with a single penalty for insults over on Football, so I have no idea how that's even remotely relevant to us.
In my opinion, this is just a textbook example of someone being a total troll.

Why aren't the people over at the white corner getting banned for swearing at God and all the other saints—basically just trampling all over my religious beliefs? If one guy on this forum tells another guy to go screw his kids, his dad, or his mother, or just tells him to go straight to hell, he gets slapped with a ban immediately. But when someone takes aim at my sacred stuff, they don't just get a pass; their posts aren't even deleted.
I’m asking you guys to please just wipe those posts with profanity immediately. Thanks.

Frank Hayes71 said:Why aren't the people over at the white corner getting banned for swearing at God and all the other saints—basically just trampling all over my religious beliefs? If one guy on this forum tells another guy to go screw his kids, his dad, or his mother, or just tells him to go straight to hell, he gets slapped with a ban immediately. But when someone takes aim at my sacred stuff, they don't just get a pass; their posts aren't even deleted.
I’m asking you guys to please just wipe those posts with profanity immediately. Thanks.

Look, a child, a father, or a mother—those are REAL people!!

God and the saints aren't.☕

Richard Kelly7 said:Look, a child, a father, or a mother—those are REAL people!!

God and the saints aren't.☕

Maybe they aren't to you, but they sure as hell are to me, and I’m not about to sit here and let you disrespect them.

Michelle Palmer6 said:You didn't get slapped with a single penalty for insults over on Football, so I have no idea how that's even remotely relevant to us.
In my opinion, this is just a textbook example of someone being a total troll.

And personally, I feel like you haven't actually read the whole thing again.
I got flagged for being insulting while I was just complaining about the moderation rules on the football board during my chat with that yellow ant guy—and I wasn't even insulting him. So who exactly was I supposed to be insulting?
It’s a pretty straightforward question, one that I haven't been able to get a straight answer to for a month now.
That penalty ended up leading me straight into another ban over on the football section.

And why is every single one of my questions constantly labeled as trolling? Am I not allowed to know why I got penalized?
I even caught another one for "shouting," even though I wasn't even using caps lock. How does that even work?
If it's because of using emojis, then why on earth do you even offer them if we aren't supposed to use them?
Not to mention getting hit with 30 points for being off-topic in a thread where there are three whole pages of off-topic chatter, yet I'm the only one who gets flagged—and I got slapped with three warnings at once.

If anyone here is actually trolling, it's definitely you, since you're busy responding to stuff I didn't even ask the moderator in the first place, buddy.

You earned those warnings because you’re the one who steered the conversation down that path. This isn't an NFL fans thread; it's just a general discussion area. Honestly, I think the mods should have been even stricter, since venting about moderation in a space that isn't meant for it is a direct violation of the subforum rules.
The whole thing feels like pure trolling, especially since there was never any talk about debt forgiveness or gifting anyone a stadium. Anyone following this thread—even just skimming the surface—knows that, yet here you are, acting like some kind of expert.

Look, you titled that thread about moderation over on the Football board, then I responded to your warnings over on the Football board, and now you're still rambling on about disciplinary actions that have absolutely nothing to do with us.

I mean, just look at all the absolute nonsense people post there without getting banned
but hey, let’s get this straight: I’m just some massive, evil troll who exists solely to bait others into insulting me or threatening me with physical violence, while everyone else in the off-topic section is apparently a saint who has no clue who's actually pulling the strings, so please, feel free to charge in like a bunch of white knights on horseback to save them
and by the way, I was hanging out in the white corner because the yellow ant moderator told me to, only to be greeted with nothing but bans. now you’re the third person here refusing to answer one incredibly simple question and instead trying to steer the whole conversation in some random direction
you guys are clearly handing out bans selectively, and if someone doesn't fall for your little demagogic games, you just slap them with a penalty and scream "troll, troll"

do you honestly think I'm playing the part of the designated idiot just so you guys can laugh at me and ban me?
you probably do, but at least you won't get flagged for having an opinion, right?
and I bet the grass grew itself and paid off its own loans too

Nicholas Watson said:I mean, just look at all the absolute nonsense people post there without getting banned
but hey, let’s get this straight: I’m just some massive, evil troll who exists solely to bait others into insulting me or threatening me with physical violence, while everyone else in the off-topic section is apparently a saint who has no clue who's actually pulling the strings, so please, feel free to charge in like a bunch of white knights on horseback to save them
and by the way, I was hanging out in the white corner because the yellow ant moderator told me to, only to be greeted with nothing but bans. now you’re the third person here refusing to answer one incredibly simple question and instead trying to steer the whole conversation in some random direction
you guys are clearly handing out bans selectively, and if someone doesn't fall for your little demagogic games, you just slap them with a penalty and scream "troll, troll"

do you honestly think I'm playing the part of the designated idiot just so you guys can laugh at me and ban me?
you probably do, but at least you won't get flagged for having an opinion, right?
and I bet the grass grew itself and paid off its own loans too

You’ve received your answers. If you think anything violates the rules, just use the report button.

Just like I called it, not a single one of my questions actually got an answer.
And while we’re on the subject of those little report buttons, maybe instead of obsessing over me and nitpicking every time I post something you don't like, you guys could actually start doing your jobs as forum mods. It’s pretty wild how you don't even wait for someone to hit the report button before slapping me with a penalty without a shred of explanation—even when I've asked five different times in three different places, and none of you three mods will give me a straight answer.

Go ahead, lock the thread or delete it if you want, because I already know I'm not getting a real response from guys like you, and honestly, I won't even bother looking for one anyway.☕

Exactly! I have zero intention of repeating myself for the third time just to satisfy some trolls.