User blog comment:Thane Mantis/So I got banned from the forums/@comment-6969786-20160402155221/@comment-13962920-20160404160026

Yeah it was just a forum ban. As far as my knowledge nothing done on the forums can result in an in-game ban. That would just be unprofessional of them anyways. Like, taking what a person does on one side of the wall and using that as leverage to punish them in-game would not look good for them at all. And you can bet I would that use against them on the forums. I've always prided myself on not giving much of a damn and speaking my mind.

So if they banned me in-game, I would show that to the forums without a second thought. However I do recall one person complaining about losing access to support, only for CM Scarlett to tell them their bad history on the forums resulted in that privilege being lost.

I don't know if I've lost access to support or not but you can bet like all hell that I would be alot angrier about this situation if I had. I've paid alot of money into this game over the years, more than enough to let qaulify for support, so if they took that right away from me I would never drop it. I should really check that soon.

As for the ban thing itself, appparently part of the reason he kicked me off was down too the fact I had a string of supposed violations in the past for hell knows what. What's sad about the entire situation really is that this ban, and my last one were for posting things meant to be taken lightly.

Your on the forums alot so Im sure you've seen all the complaints and the general discontent at best and the pure rage at worst of the players right. Well I've posted things on there meant to be taken lightly to give people a smile and something to laugh about. And people have found what I posted funny. But there's old Sulaco, with forum powers and lack of a sense of humour there to stop me and hit me with the hammer.

And when I ask him why, he says stuff about the forums not being for jokes and I should take them to Off-topic.  Yeah Sulaco, go the forums section where about a whole 3 War Commander players go on a semi-regular basis. Good idea, why didn't I think off that.

Meanwhile on your point about me being a prominent poster, I kinda doubt that has much to do with it. Sure, I've posted a shed load of things on the forums, ranging from jokes, to rants, to my dissenting opinion that's got me in more arguments that I care to remember, to posts that yes, kinda take the piss out of Sulaco. And I have actually been on those forums for a long time (or at least a long time in my book.) Hell according to the join dates I've been there longer than Sulaco himself. But as for the idea of him caring what I think, I somewhat doubt that whilst at the same time agree.

I agree because Sulaco may have taken it badly because I've been there longer than he has, I've interacted with the community alot longer than him (I ain't trying to come of as arrogant or anything here, just to say, so I hope I don't) and in general I've just posted alot more than him, answering questions and so on.

So maybe he well did care what I had to say since Im sort of a veteran of the forums to an extent. I know loads of players, I've chatted to possibly hundreds of people in my time (and argued with many as well lol,) and so  on.

So maybe it was in part due to how notorious I am in the community for what I've said and how much I have said that made him want to put me oin forum jail. Hell maybe that was ShadowKiller got a permanent ban as well, because he's prominent on Battle Vortex as the producer. (But all ShadowKiller did was share that post, he didn't write it so a perma-ban for him was definetly unfair and unjustified.

But at the same time, I don't see why he would care about what I have to say. I mean, neither he nor anyone else on the team seems to give half a damn about me or anyone else has had to say or ever  has said, etc. If they did, Im sure things would be very different in-game. Like, for one thing I once posted a rant, and then a poll, about the Lottery system which both recieved tons of atttention.

In fact the poll, got anywhere up to, if not more, than 900 votes. And the end majority of 92% who voted said "No" too the lottery 92% of voters out of nearly 1000 people. So if they ever cared about me and what I had to say and other players, cause Im the one who posted that poll, why is the lottery still here?

Answer is, they more than like really don't care. They can claim til the sun sets and rises again that they do care and they do listen, but my poll is one of the best bits of evidence to the contrary. So Sulaco caring about why I have to write?

Hmm, Im not entirely sure. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't, who really knows. I certainly don't know at the end of the day. All I know, Im stuck back at square one with my forum-going. And man does it suck to be back there.

Queation for ya BTE. Do you think it would be worth going to Sulaco and attempting to appeal my ban or do ya think I should just stick with working my new account? Im just curious as to what your thoughts are.

(Also, sorry for this mega long post. If ya read all that, kudos to you for having the patience. I've recieved a complaints from forum-goers about my long posts and all that lol. I really don't understand why haha.)