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You aren't a true gamefaqs user if dis hasn't happened to you tbh
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No, but I did get modded once because the mod disagreed with my argument, and the mod reasoning was basically just them trying to debate the point. Quickest overturn I've ever had.
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I got accused of being racist against white people and suspended on the politics board for a comment that wasn't even implying that I was talking about all white people. Even when I fought it and explained what I was saying a second mod didn't overturn it (which isn't surprising).
"How can.. the Prime minister.. support a law.. that makes it illegal for people.. who....What I'm trying to say is.. Oasis rules!"
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I'm still salty about the only time in 20+ years I ever took a 3 karma loss mod for "trolling" It was back on the PS3 board and we were talking about the game Resonance of Fate. I said I thought it looked great and I was interested in it but too bad it got cancelled. A poster asked me for a source and after looking for it I realized my mistake and had confused it with The Last Remnant PS3 port that was cancelled. The whole Resonance/Remnant got switched in my brain after looking at so much gaming news.

I responded back to the poster that I was sorry I had confused it with The Last Remnant. He was like no big deal. Three days later someone marked me for trolling and they hit me with a 3 karma loss. I appealed it and explained in detail and they still upheld it.

It wasn't trolling by any means and after me explaining why could they not literally look at like 3 posts later where I clarified my mistake? It still pisses me off that mods are that obtuse. I have had a few things deleted under the guise of "off topic" which I disagreed with but this was my only flat out moderation in my entire gamefaqs history and it was flat out bullshit to me.
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i got accused of posting a video with a homophobic slur but the character in the video wasn't saying a slur at all. there were even subtitles confirming this, but the subtitles were in spanish, but you could see he was saying "hobo" because it had "vagabond" as the translation . whatever. the movie was hobo with a shotgun.
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archizzy posted...
I responded back to the poster that I was sorry I had confused it with The Last Remnant. He was like no big deal. Three days later someone marked me for trolling and they hit me with a 3 karma loss. I appealed it and explained in detail and they still upheld it.

It wasn't trolling by any means and after me explaining why could they not literally look at like 3 posts later where I clarified my mistake? It still pisses me off that mods are that obtuse. I have had a few things deleted under the guise of "off topic" which I disagreed with but this was my only flat out moderation in my entire gamefaqs history and it was flat out bullshit to me.

Ah the old modded days/weeks later in a dead topic mod. That's a classic.
"How can.. the Prime minister.. support a law.. that makes it illegal for people.. who....What I'm trying to say is.. Oasis rules!"
I've for sure been modded because a mod disagreed with me. They seem careful to not give any penalty beyond deleting the post in those situations, I guess because they recognize what they're doing.

Around 2010-2014 any remotely borderline post I made would get modded but I don't think that was because of a mod, but rather that was because I'd pissed off a lot of people who then made a point of marking almost every post I made. I must have been really good at getting under people's skin, since when I made this account a couple years later I had all these dudes coming out of nowhere bringing up troll threads I made years earlier.
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More than legit moderations tbh.

And when you clarify, they're like "OOOOOOOOOOH Well you're still modded ololol"

Actually, I did get it overturned once. The mod just straight-up said "I guess I can't read today" lol. I appreciated the honesty.

But I just haven't bothered disputing in decades because there's no point.
Arguing on CE be all like:
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During that brief phase where mods were more hands on with moderations, all my moderations were overturned.
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DoesntMatter posted...
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I got modded once for the assumption that I was saying the exact opposite of what I actually said. When I protested in that thread, she actually sent me a PM and apologized. Then she made sure it would be scrubbed.

So not a big deal
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I called someone a podophile once, and had to explain to the mods that meant foot fetishist
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I don't think so, I'm rarely modded so I wouldn't remember anyway tbqh
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Yes.

I was baffled by my post being reported/modded at all. But, credit where it is due, the whole thing was sorted out very quickly.
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yea, but their heart was in the right place, and I was able to get the modding overturned after I explained my post.
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I said Cool Story Bro to explain what CSB meant.
One time I posted "Cool." Period and everything.

The next two posts were "story" and "bro".

The post after that was also mine: "I swear, if you guys get me modded..."

They got me modded.
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Wait, you can't say "cool story, bro" to someone?
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Vegy posted...
You aren't a true gamefaqs user if dis hasn't happened to you tbh
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bsp77 posted...
Wait, you can't say "cool story, bro" to someone?
It was a rule many years ago. It was considered disruptive posting after a fad where someone would say it and the next 100 posts would be variations, like "excellent tale, friend" or "riveting recollection, old chap" etc.
Arguing on CE be all like:
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I got purged for months for being "antisemitic" when I was talking about biased reporting against Kamala. Had to Google how my statement could even be seen as antisemitic.

Mod stretched my statement across the galaxies.
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Squall28 posted...
I got purged for months for being "antisemitic" when I was talking about biased reporting against Kamala. Had to Google how my statement could even be seen as antisemitic.

Mod stretched my statement across the galaxies.
GameFAQs gonna GameFAQs.

"Hi, I like shorts."
"OMG YOU ARE A *insert insane political movement here"
Turns out, such and such guy from such and such movement endorsed shorts in such and such year.
Arguing on CE be all like:
https://youtu.be/JpRKrs67lOs?si=kPGA2RCKVHTdbVrJ
Squall28 posted...
I got purged for months for being "antisemitic" when I was talking about biased reporting against Kamala. Had to Google how my statement could even be seen as antisemitic.

Mod stretched my statement across the galaxies.
Please don't repost it. I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, but out of context (and even in context) that post is getting moderated 10 times out of 10. That's a pretty common and harmful stereotype and you really shouldn't say that.
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ReturnOfDevsman posted...
GameFAQs gonna GameFAQs.

"Hi, I like shorts."
"OMG YOU ARE A *insert insane political movement here"
Turns out, such and such guy from such and such movement endorsed shorts in such and such year.

Oh god. Recently some woodwork grub said I must be a conservatroll because, and I quote,

"You only backed off after getting proof you were wrong"

Like, yes

That's how proof and understanding work
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no, but i have been modded by the automod cause there were naughty letters in another word.
it essentially failed the Scunthorpe problem check
Kremlin delenda est
ROBBAN posted...
no, but i have been modded by the automod cause there were naughty letters in another word.
it essentially failed the Scunthorpe problem check
This drives me crazy with YouTube URLs.
Arguing on CE be all like:
https://youtu.be/JpRKrs67lOs?si=kPGA2RCKVHTdbVrJ
apparently, they must have improved it somewhat
as it allows Scunthorpe but blocks the C-word

and atleast by the Preview Message, typing in the thing i got modded for back then doesn't appear to raise any red flags
Kremlin delenda est
I got modded for spoilers for saying the actor who played Dumbledore died.

I appealed explaining the mod clearly just misunderstood and that I wasnt spoiling anything in the books.

It was upheld bc talking about dead people still qualifies as "offensive"

Classic case of mods covering for mods.
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I got modded for transphobia once despite my post was condemning Dave Chappelle for enabling transphobes
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Yes. It's why I hate that we can't put moderators on ignore. They're allowed to spew their bullshit and we just gave to fucking deal with it.
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Baphometa posted...
Please don't repost it. I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, but out of context (and even in context) that post is getting moderated 10 times out of 10. That's a pretty common and harmful stereotype and you really shouldn't say that.

But I wasn't talking about them. That's where my indignation lies. Like it didn't even cross my mind that my statement could be about them. Kamala's husband is Jewish for crying out loud. Why would I use that as an attack against her?

I won't repost cause I know how mods interpret it now, but the original post has zero intent to talk about any stereotypes.
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Around 2010-ish, was participating in a little board character popularity competition topic, got to knock out a character from it and called it 'killing' said character. No graphic description or anything, just simply used the word 'kill' in connection with the competition.

Got straight warned for that. Not even NKL or 3KL, a warning. Whaaa? Appealed once, got a 'no u' and just gave up, didn't contest further.

That was my first moderation on this site, too.

Haven't really been modded for a misunderstanding besides that, though I did get caught a few times for off-topic posting(borderline, they could've let it pass if they wanted, sheesh) and variations of 'cool story bro'.

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Distant_Rainbow posted...
Around 2010-ish, was participating in a little board character popularity competition topic, got to knock out a character from it and called it 'killing' said character. No graphic description or anything, just simply used the word 'kill' in connection with the competition.

Got straight warned for that. Not even NKL or 3KL, a warning. Whaaa? Appealed once, got a 'no u' and just gave up, didn't contest further.

That was my first moderation on this site, too.

Haven't really been modded for a misunderstanding besides that, though I did get caught a few times for off-topic posting(borderline, they could've let it pass if they wanted, sheesh) and variations of 'cool story bro'.

There was no misunderstanding. Imagine the type of person that strives to become a moderator on a video game forum. That was them getting their dopamine hit.
Chickens and cheese.
I got modded in the NBA board for making a "Giannis to the Spurs" topic like a few days after the Bucks got eliminated, in the opening post I made it clear that it was just my thoughts on what should happen but I got modded for baiting and switching. How I should make it clear on the topic title that it's an hypothetical. Kinda pissed me off. Especially since the topic only lasted like 10 minutes on the board....

And it didn't help that a week later a different user made THE SAME EXACT TITLE and it was left untouched and it naturally got archived (as it should) but I'm not going to lie that left a bad taste in my mouth.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/2000208-sports-and-racing-nba/80981744

I need a mod to explain this to me lol
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Yeah, literally every single time. Mods just don't understand that I am always in the right.
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Tryin2GetDaPipe posted...
I got modded in the NBA board for making a "Giannis to the Spurs" topic like a few days after the Bucks got eliminated, in the opening post I made it clear that it was just my thoughts on what should happen but I got modded for baiting and switching. How I should make it clear on the topic title that it's an hypothetical. Kinda pissed me off. Especially since the topic only lasted like 10 minutes on the board....

And it didn't help that a week later a different user made THE SAME EXACT TITLE and it was left untouched and it naturally got archived (as it should) but I'm not going to lie that left a bad taste in my mouth.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/2000208-sports-and-racing-nba/80981744

I need a mod to explain this to me lol

It's likely the other topic wasn't marked. We don't allow misleading topic titles like that. That's like the most basic form of trolling lol.
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Not really, a misunderstanding but I got modded for calling a user that made post # whatever an asshole.

I was calling myself an asshole as a joke and they modded me.
I dont think theres anyone whos spent more than a few days on CE who this hasnt happened to at some point or others. Its really something the lengths theyll go to to argue that their interpretation is the only possible correct one too.
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Cacciato posted...
Not really, a misunderstanding but I got modded for calling a user that made post # whatever an asshole.

I was calling myself an asshole as a joke and they modded me.
Shouldve disputed that, theyve explicitly said on numerous occasions its fine to flame yourself (as long as the flame in question isnt moddable for any other reason, and youre flaming the account youre posting from (or just me) and not an alt that they technically cant reveal if its actually you or not).
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ROBBAN posted...
no, but i have been modded by the automod cause there were naughty letters in another word.
it essentially failed the Scunthorpe problem check
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