Little known fact: The opposite of not-enough-paragraphs is too-many-paragraphs. Both are hard to read.

That same moderator kicked me from chat on his/her first day of duty.
Repent

So . . . where's the hidden giveaway?

Oh god finally we are rid of you. Seriously, your permanent suspension was overdue

i dont remember who it was nor i care enough to find out at this hours, but i do remember a mod banned like 6 or more people for 5 days 5 FUCKING DAYS for doing a combo of that "risetto joke" which i wont mention cause i dont want to get banned until humanity dies, i mean 5 days, no warnings or anything just straight up that, then he proceeded to call me a stupid kid or something of the like simply because he ddiing agree with what i said, of course this was during the period of the ban so i couldnt shut his face.

TL:DR
i got banned for a stupid joke then insulted.

this post is probably going to get me suspended.

I'll just leave this here as an apology.

There's a disturbingly large number of folks like this. Makes me glad I'm cutting back on webforums.

Given some of the stuff that crops up in this forum, I tend to think that the staff are, if anything, too lenient and patient with people. It's an utterly thankless job that they do for free, and when someone finally pushes it too far and gets a much deserved suspension, they get an endless stream of bitching.

The most frequent complaint about the staff around here is that there just aren't enough of them around. You're like the guy who keeps getting trouble with the law in a town with one police officer. Rather than assume it's that the cop has a grudge against you, how about looking in the mirror and asking why you keep managing to attract their attention?

P.S. The notion that the site isn't receptive to constructive criticism of the staff is kind of absurd.

You should ask for your money backk

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Okay, this is a story all about how my life got flip-turned upside down... wait, wrong start.

Sadly, parts of this are lost to history. I can't find a cached version of the Steam Off-Topic thread available and I'm too lazy to add a moderator to undelete it now that I have what I was really after (namely, a wall of text, so I didn't have to retype it all).

Our story begins with a giveaway with NSFW comments. The rule was really just for a laugh and was somewhat relevant to something or other at the time that I can't remember. Anyway, most people accepted it as tongue-in-cheek and posted things of varying quality levels and seriousness (some posted hardcore stuff, others joked around and still got it). Along comes Azzaboi's entry. Like many others, I denied it because it wasn't amusing, relevant or even had any effort put into it. Azza through a fit over it and I replied. I thought it was done with and that'd be the last I heard of it. Nope.

Azza posted this thread where he started gibbering nonsensically about porn and corrupted mods and all sorts of other stuff. The kicker was that he then directly linked to the above giveaway (now edited to be directed towards my thread about it). That got him suspended as directly linking a private giveaway that is not yours and you have not been given permission to link to is a suspendable offence. So, it was. I also added on an inappropriate behaviour suspension for the comment in my giveaway which I was willing to overlook before but considered to be implying homophobia.

In comes the support ticket, entitled "Selective rules / corrupted abusive staff". The excuses are that Azza couldn't be homophobic because boi means bi boy (shrugs), Azza couldn't be suspended for directly linking because it was already posted on the forum and that we are "forcing" our members to be corrupted tools of satan by making them write porn. The ticket went on for a while, then Azza entered chat and... well, have a look for yourself. Apparently, my giveaway was the sole cause of the site's huge downtimes at that time. This is an argument that makes as much sense as saying gay people cause hurricanes. I was AFK at the time, came back, noticed him stirring shit up, banned him for it pretty much instantly. Suspended him further for taking this crap to chat as well, then another one after he reopened the support ticket to post absolutely nothing of consequence (yes, spamming support with bullshit is also not something the moderators appreciate).

Suddenly, everything goes quiet. I idly wonder where he went for the next three days, but it's honestly not important to me at all. Then a new ticket is opened, requesting cg as "all other staff will be ignored." Fair enough, we skim through those tickets to see if it's actually worth cg's time and then we either answer them anyway or we direct cg to them. In this case, I directed cg to it and left the ticket open. The ticket apologised for being immature, then linked to a thread on the Steam Off-Topic forums where he had immediately gone during the quiet period to try to stir up some support for him. It failed, most of the people there were either "shit happens" or suspected they weren't being told the whole story or were "why the hell are you posting this here?" By the time I was made aware of the thread (now deleted, I have yet to find out if it was by Azzaboi or a moderator, but either is perfectly valid, one for being a dumb thread, the other because he didn't get the support he wanted), it was on page three. I basically offered up the same reasoning in my post on this thread. If you are this determined to air out your dirty laundry in public, let's show the really messy stains, shall we? I posted a wall explaining everything that happened, to the best of my knowledge. Here you go. It's formatted to fit Steam's text format and minor edits were made that I don't believe were kept. The later parts of it were in response to Azza using out of context quotes from my profile about dealing with trolls and, well, people like Azza. Go ahead, take a look, it's a riot. SG chat also became aware of this thread around the same time and started making their own comments but were disregarded because a lot of them are on my friends list, for varying reasons (you pick up a lot of people on your list when you're active on SG, I've found). Some were actually friends, others are mostly business (sorry, Hillary Clinton, I never loved you). (side note: Azza then got his friends to start posting, even as he said people on my list couldn't post. Was kind of funny). SG chat pretty much derailed the way Azza wanted to go with the thread for another three pages, posting comment after comment about how much crap Azza was posting, deconstructing every line he said and explaining why it was wrong, every single time he responded. If I care enough later, I might get a Steam moderator to undelete but lock the thread, for historical accuracy.

Anyway, due to all of this, bringing it up all over the place yet again, another suspension happened, which is common practice. The support ticket was commented in some more, I answered it since it was relevant to, it spread to, like, seven different people's profiles, including a huge amount of mine (my posts are still there, Azza's may not be if he deleted them). There were multiple offerings to just PM me and sort this crap out once and for all, all of which were ignored. There were multiple moderators all saying cg had been directed to the post but Azza continued to gabber on about how cg didn't care, including reopening the first ticket, commenting in the second and posting a third just to post identical comments (another suspension for spamming support may have followed, to add to all the others and one for crapping up profiles). Eventually, he just e-mailed cg (inbox@steamgifts.com) and that's where I lose track of things. The thread was already deleted by that point, so I have no idea how much truth of the situation cg got, but the result was that all suspensions were deleted, including the original ones and replaced with two by cg for a total of four more days.

Good. Can we end this now? Finally? Just sodding deal with it and move on?

No. No, we cannot. Every oppurtunity for the last two months he has seen, Azza has taken the time to post crap about this situation, twisting things so he was entirely an innocent who never did anything wrong. I told him to knock it off every time, contact support or cg if he had something to say. Never happened. Finally, I decided enough was enough. I suspended him for two days for the post he linked above and gave him an extension for seven more for ignoring the multitude of simple verbal warnings I gave before hand, one of which I am positive I said would be rewarded with another vacation if he refused to drop it again. I have never told others to make a mistake just so I can ban someone for it. I never will. If I do, I'm either drunker than I have ever been and ever will be again or I'm not the one at the keyboard. I may be a twat, I may talk out of my arse, I may be an aggressive little cunt at times, but I am not someone who does that. No rules have been made up in any of this. No hypocrisy has been shown. Just one user that doesn't know when to quit and refused to go to support to talk sensibly about any issues they had and let a six day suspension warp into three months until he said whatever he did to cg. Make up your own minds, with what information remains. I'm done with Azzaboi. Forever.

"Scientology continues its war against critics who speak out and tell their negative stories of it."

Even Scientology can fairly win against people who constantly twist things to give a false negative view about them.

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tl;dr: After mommy watermelon went to bed with daddy reindeer, everyone had to poo.

Forums; the place where people bitch because no one wants to listen.

Ah yes, now I remember why I gave you a nickname all those months ago.

The forums aren't essential to your Steamgifts experience. If you're having problems, enter giveaways quietly and politely.

Staff are a bunch of fkheads, but is good site for just entering giveaways.

By the way, is the staff member in question happen to be "thejadefalcon"? - From what I've been faced with, seems like he/she also likes to abuse the staff power.

Amen, brother! The staff should be sneaking around and banning for real reasons. I heard of this one guy who got suspended for saying VPN (virtual private network).

So, I personally think, that the staff has to change. Give some responsible everyday guy a banhammer, because they know who should be banned for real.

This puzzle has defeated me. Can I have a hint?

lol

you take this place far too seriously.

Simple stuff : Staff are human too.. they have feelings, they have emotions, THEY HAVE LIMITS... don't cross the limit cuz no matter how patient or professional they are they are still human who can't deny a mistake... like a saying "nobody is perfect" and "before you judge others, look at yourself"

thehellamisayingdon'treadthiscrap

"TL;DR: I threw a temper tantrum, and got spanked."

Long story short, admins and moderators will always abuse their power, this is how forums work. Every time there will be a zealous mod that want's to prove something.

WHAAA! I GOT TEH BANZ!
Cry some more

Damn, ran out of popcorn.

As a person who spent two years doing similar job as staff members here do I would just like to say, that it certainly is necessary to have rules, but support/admin should not be blamed for adapting/bending them since they just cannot be directly applied to every kind of situation.

And yea, if you guys are wondering, doing what they do can be quite frustrating. I do not know how it works on SG, but I did what I did for free, just because I liked the game it was involved with and wanted to help the community. Yet the amount of sh*t you get as a reward, from the very community you try to help, because you can never please everyone, pretty much makes it not worth it.