I wanted to share my opinion about the Khalan banning, because that was the final straw that caused me to stop using eq2players and decide to make this site.
I posted this on my guild board in a thread there when this happened, this sums up my thoughts on the matter. I'm sorry in advance if you don't agree with what I believe, but I think fansites were the biggest loser in this deal. Basically, I'll never believe or trust what a fansite says again, because now I know for sure they are leashed and can only say things that please SoE:
Khalan_EQ2 said: It's funny they said Im permabanned because I was a fansite rep, wouldnt it have made infinitely more sense to remove my fansite tag (which I offered up freely) and give me like a 3 day ban. I think perma ban with no warning (whatever they think they said to me, they didn't) is bullshit and way fucking overboard, standard SOE kneejerk reaction.
I agree, and have been thinking the same thing. You were mostly a moderate, good humored, and intelligent poster. I've pretty much read everything you've written in the past six months, and I'm still dumbstruck about this.
I think what happened is that you hurt a devs feelings based on a few words in one of your posts, and he took that personally and instructed Raijinn to ban you, perhaps as an example to others.
I think banning you is beyond arrogant and another clear sign that EQ2 has completely lost touch with its player base. Banning a popular poster who made mostly intelligent, technical posts regarding game mechanics and class issues, on the basis of a minor insult toward a specific dev, is a tremendous abuse of power and should be seen as a slap in the face to the entire posting community. Who the fuck do they think they are? Are they so high up in an ivory tower and think they are so successful and untouchable they can just shit on people and then flush them away like used toilet paper?
What does banning Khalan say to everyone involved in an EQ2 fansite? It says you better never tell the truth when you think something negative about Big Brother SoE, because posting a candid negative opinion based on reasoning and facts will get you banned from the community. So in the future, people who work for fansites should only make posts filled with happy talk, because individual employees at SoE can and will retaliate against you and ban your account when you hurt their feelings.
I don't think I can ever trust anything written by a EQ2 fan site again, now that we know they can only post positive, and never negative information against SoE or any of its employees.
In my opinion, EQ2 fan sites now have about the same credibility as the Soviet Press at the height of the Cold War, with EQ2 management ("The Kremlin") conveying these well understood but unspoken rules: "Want to keep your comfy job comrade? Then be a good little reporter and only make us look good, never publish anything truthful that could cast us in a negative light, or you may wake up on a train to Siberia."
I'm so disgusted by Khalan being banned I honestly think I'm done posting on eq2players.com also, I stopped posting there when I heard about this. Too many people who made eq2players.com interesting and informative have now been banned. They banned many of the people who were posting the most entertaining and informative content. So there is hardly anything worth reading there anymore. All that's left are people who have to water down everything they post for fear of getting edited, warned and banned also.
Re: Out a moderator!
I look awful in blue.
