SwimExpert
Gold Member
- Nov 26, 2013
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There seems to be this idea out there that USMB is backdoor banning members just for shits and giggles through some kind of "slowdown" policy. I think this is untrue. This is USMB, where my voice counts, and everyone else's voice counts too. It says so right at the top. It's preposterous to think that the staff would backdoor ban people as a way of punishing people just for saying something the staff doesn't like. If someone were breaking the rules they would receive infractions, and I guess if they received enough infractions they would be banned outright.
The staff here at USMB are all really nice people. They're very honest folks. They would never abuse their immense power to silence ideas just because someone disagrees with them. That's just not how things work. And besides, it just wouldn't be an effective approach anyway. Putting someone on "slowdown" doesn't stop them from being able to come to usmessageboard. They can still read anything they want. They could still post. It might take a little bit of extra effort, that's all. They only way such a policy could ever make sense is if the staff just want to be plain evil. They're not evil. They're super nice people.
I thank the staff in advance for their efforts to figure out what is broken and fixing it. I thought about sending thank you PMs to everyone individually, but it seems that the staff tend to disable the ability for people to send them PMs. So I'm giving this public thank you to the entire group. I'll continue to post screenshots of other error messages that pop up for me, and if anyone else starts running into problems I encourage you to do the same. This will help the staff figure out what is going on and find a solution.
The staff here at USMB are all really nice people. They're very honest folks. They would never abuse their immense power to silence ideas just because someone disagrees with them. That's just not how things work. And besides, it just wouldn't be an effective approach anyway. Putting someone on "slowdown" doesn't stop them from being able to come to usmessageboard. They can still read anything they want. They could still post. It might take a little bit of extra effort, that's all. They only way such a policy could ever make sense is if the staff just want to be plain evil. They're not evil. They're super nice people.
I thank the staff in advance for their efforts to figure out what is broken and fixing it. I thought about sending thank you PMs to everyone individually, but it seems that the staff tend to disable the ability for people to send them PMs. So I'm giving this public thank you to the entire group. I'll continue to post screenshots of other error messages that pop up for me, and if anyone else starts running into problems I encourage you to do the same. This will help the staff figure out what is going on and find a solution.
