Yes, that's true. I suppose my statement should be changed a little bit to make it true. The majority of discussion about controversial, but important, issues in EU is against the rules. You won't necessarily get banned, but you could and the thread/post will be edited/deleted
Again, I would argue that nearly all controversial and important topics directly related to Entropia Universe are discussed more here on EF than anywhere else. The fact that EF is far and away the most active and quickly growing communiy website it testimony to that.
I don't care if no one has been banned. I've seen your posts on why you don't have one, but I disagree with all of them.
Whether you disagree or not with the purposes of the rule prohibiting scamming accusations is not part of my consideration, to be honest. MindBuster, Jimmy B, Skam and a large portion of the EF community understand and agree with the EF policy regarding scamming accusations.
Most of the people that would be talked about would actually be scammers. What's more important, telling newbies about scammers so that they don't fall victim to them, or saving a few people's names when they could easily be cleared by them posting there when they have no evidence.
This is why it is
much more effective to educate new players on how to avoid being scammed, as opposed to creating a list of "people to beware of." And this is that entire purpose of the
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/...tutorials/77924-scamming-methods-exposed.html thread.
I also think you vastly underestimate how easy is it is to ruin an innocent player's reputation with a false accusation or misunderstanding. As the saying goes, a good reputation takes a long time to earn, but can be lost very quickly.
In any instance where a community develops (and especially with regard to something like EU with its real cash economy), rules prohibiting slander and/or libel become very important.
Well, I'm not going to take the time to search for one, but it would be considered "flaming" which you would delete it for. How many "NBK sucks" threads have there been?
I don't understand the point here.
Yes, and they've been locked.
Entirely untrue. I was referring to the tens of thousands of
unlocked threads which are critical of EU, Mindark, etc. Again, more than all other Entropia community sites combined (x50 or 100).
1. Well good for them. More friends=more advertising=more sales
2. What's even the point of that rule? I understand maybe 1 bump every hour but every day, and that's for everyone on the thread? This forum goes fast enough because of all the members that that rule should be revised.
The point of the rule is to prevent massive amounts of unnecessary "bump wars" which arise if there is no limit to the amount of bumps in a specified time period. This has happened many times in the past, and continues to happen. Nearly
every forum on the internet has rules or limitations relating to bumps, so I cannot understand why you find the EF rule so "unjust"
!!!!!!!!. The word N e o v i x e n is blocked. I think that's good proof. If you want more:
All EF members (including me) are protected from accusations of EULA violations with no proof or validity. Use of that term is a direct accusation, as you well know.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/about-entropiaforum/78688-just-wondering-why.html
You never did respond to even one of my 3 or 4 pms over the course of about a month. The thing is, everyone knows they were banned because they used that word. They said that you cheated, and you banned them for it, instead of just explaining that you didn't.
BMW was given
many temp bans and second chances (more than
any other member in the history of this forum). She was also very well aware that any further disruption of the EF community would result in a permanent ban. She intentionally antagonized me with the posting of the remarks you mention, and seemingly wanted to be banned. It's very unfair and innaccurate to claim or imply that she was banned from EF simply because of her last post.
Demoniac was temp banned for the same behavior. However, his temp ban became a permanent ban when he created a new account and posted extremely vicious flaming comments (which was a shock to me, as they were greatly out of character for him).
I have explained the circumstances of those bans several times now, and with both of them in fact. You seem to feel that any administration decisions must be explained to you, when that is not the case. This is also visible in your tone in this thread, which seems to imply that the administrators of this forum have some obligation to check with you before making decisions. Obviously that is not the case, and I'm a bit confused at why you think you should expect that.
Yes, but people do fear the mods and the admin. It doesn't matter how many times you mention that they were banned for good reason, many people won't post something out of fear of getting reprimanded. I know I've stopped writing something halfway through before because I know it would get deleted anyway. That stops free speech.
Any member who observed BWM's behavior at that time could clearly see that she was "on a mission" to get permanently banned. Perhaps she feels differently now (and I have spoken to her a couple times since then), but the fact remains that if her intention was to
not finally get perm banned, then her behavior makes little sense.
Perhaps there was good reason for some of this hijacking. There are people that scam items, sell for high prices, and basically take advantage of other Entropians using the economy and, more importantly, the lack of knowledge in the economy.
The
vast majority of sales threads that were highjacked were not scammed items; "selling for high prices" is not a legitimate reason to interfere with an EF member's sales thread. Members have the right to offer their items at whatever price they choose; it is up to the buyer to determine if the price is reasonable,
not third parties.
It's clear that you have not been observing the EF Trading forums over the past 4-6 months, or perhaps you are once again exaggerating your examples to try to paint the EF rules as overly restrictive.
I agree with the community part, but disagree with the moderation part. I feel there's a difference between the two that we do not see eye-to-eye on. I think of overmoderation as the creating of rules that are not necessary and end up damaging free speech. I don't see it as a matter of how much the moderators have to do, because of the community, but what they force the members to do.
You may feel the forum rules are unnecessary, but a large part of the EF members actually
asked for these rules. Again, you seem to feel that your opinion should have more weight than that of the admins and moderators who deal with these problems on a daily basis, and the very active EF members who have requested these rules.
Yes, people do benefit from this forum. I would say the people that benefit most are the newbies. The newer players have so much to learn here and people to help them.
However, you can have an area for them and an area for the rest with different rules. You can put more rules on the newbie section to keep away flaming and people saying "n00b! i pwn j00!" but then in the other sections you can allow people to discuss the more advanced parts of EU without the scrutiny of the long list of rules here at EF. That's just one way you could reform this forum to make it more friendly for everyone. In short, some benefit from all these rules, but why not all when it can be done?
If you feel that you can create a better forum for the EU community, then of course you are free to do so.
I and the EF staff try our best to provide an EU community resource that is useful, friendly and informative for as large a portion of the Entropia player base as possible. Based on the amount of activity on and growth of EF in the last 2 years, as well as the overwhelming positive feedback from members, I think we have done a good job with that mission, and will strive to continue to do so.
If you find EF to be too restrictive or otherwise not suited to your preference, then you are of course free to not visit or participate. However, if you choose to do so, then you are expected to abide the forum rules just as every other member.
I don't want to disrespect the forum rules! 
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