Let's think through your comment.
Currently there is the main forum, which you are still free to use, and the Moderated Section, which has standard forum rules that are used in many forums throughout the internet, especially child-friendly forums. This being a video game forum, where younger people are likely to venture, I think having a moderated section is a positive all around.
Now that you have made an infraction of the Moderated Section rules which have been posted for months, since September 20, 2017, and have received the ban prescribed by the rules, you complain that something "wrong" has happened.
Essentially, if we extrapolate, you are asserting that all people must communicate and operate according to the feelings of marx was right. No one should have the freedom to operate in a different way (ie. by having a forum with rules that regulate obscene speech).
I am not saying that all people must operate according to the feelings of BabyShark. The entire rest of the forum is almost completely without rules and you are still welcome to post there.
Therefore, I am more for freedom than you are, because you want to have people ONLY allowed to operate according to your personal feelings and opinions. I would like to see increased fairness in the rest of the forum, sure, but I'm not suggesting that the mods should or should not have certain particular rules, only that the rules should be enforced equally for all people for equal infractions.
If you found the forum rules objectionable, you should have started fighting the new forum rules the instant they appeared, and especially when others (including myself) succumbed to their authority, instead of waiting for the enforcement to be carried out toward you in particular.
You were already banned previously (under mousey's permaban system) and were granted mercy and given another chance.
At this point, the system is set so a person can regain entry after every ban until the 6th one. I think it's quite fair and not at all extreme.
Punitive Measures
1st offense: 1 week ban
2nd offense: 1 month ban
3rd offense: Permaban with exactly one chance for redemption via meaningful community service that will be approved by me
If a user is able to re-enter the Moderated Section through a community service activity that has been approved by me, they will go through the tiered ban system a second time, with no redemption possible at the 3rd stage permaban, which is essentially their 6th ban for repeated infractions.
I don't think that any wrong has occurred here, and in a week, you will be back in.
I have to enforce the rules for everyone.
And trolling (my definition of trolling would be play-lying for entertainment where no one is harmed) is actually not against the rules of this section.
I'll repost the rules here:
General Guidelines
Flaming is 100% disallowed in this section of the forum. Posters are encouraged to limit their posting here to substantive, conversationally ethical posts relevant to the topic of the thread & to express any disagreement they may have with any individual or stance in a coherent & respectful way. Other things which are highly discouraged & likely to result in punitive measures (determined on a case by case basis via the application of common sense) include: content that is harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, torturous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene*, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable or generally unlawful.*
*All forum users have an equal right to use the moderated section; prohibition of vulgarity/obscenity in this section does not extend to usernames, avatars or signatures.
The rest of the forum is still there, and you are able to engage in any topic in General Discussion or other section, as you prefer.
