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Lot of banning going on with forum accounts lately

anyone else notice a lot more people with BANNED icons popping up. Silencing folks in a time like this seems to be the incorrect way to handle dissatisfied customers

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  • Member Posts: 763

    How does one get banned here?

  • Member, Alpha Surveyor Posts: 7,684

    By not following the forum rules https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/87004/forum-rules

    I think a lot of warnings at least are given out for "making light of serious issues" (see the rules), but I expect a lot of bans come from getting into a heated argument with another forum member. You'll notice a lot of disrespectful and derogatory posts that lack anything constructive, or one member specifically targeting another member and "calling them out" for whatever reason (which is a no-no, even if you're right). Accusing a member of anything publicly isn't taken well; if you think they're posting bait, ignore it; if you think they're using an alt account, flag it; use the official means to report cheaters; etc.

  • They ignore it, but I haven't really shown any signs of censorship I wouldn't jump to that conclusion.

  • Member Posts: 3,059

    After a change as big a Ruin I'd imagine there would be a lot of people with interesting words to give to BHVR.

  • Member Posts: 301

    Preety sure there's a preety small group agreeing with your changes. And there survivor mains.

  • Member Posts: 549

    DBD: 1984 edition.

  • Member Posts: 3,354

    Obviously more people will "cross the line" when controversial changes get announced and people are passionate about what's happening.

    From fairly understandable heated arguements going a little too far when people are passionate enough, to legitimately ascended garbage like justifying/encouraging review bombing or just mindlessly attacking BHVR in a way that's far from constructive.

  • Member Posts: 29

    just because Im paranoid doesn't mean people aren't watching me :O

  • Member, Alpha Surveyor Posts: 7,684

    They're definitely not visible, anymore. Even posts that just get the member sent a warning are removed.

  • Member Posts: 2,358

    I reported a post that was just a hate filled rant with some choice words that really weren't needed. The whole thread got removed.

  • Member Posts: 1,480

    I like the way you put it. Pretty much what I was gonna say.

    It makes perfect sense to me that there's a lot of people getting banned when there's constantly people recently trying to bypass the language filter, and insulting each other, and constantly commenting with completely irrelevant things, and trying to start arguments with people, and just generally being children. There's still plenty of people complaining about things they're unhappy with, me being one of them, and I haven't been bothered. I doubt a lot of other people complaining civilly have been bothered either.

  • Member Posts: 477

    Considering how internet is, I bet some BHVR devs already had the chance to learn ... Interesting facts about their families 🤣

  • Member Posts: 523
    edited January 2020

    Feedback and criticism is fine.


    Harassing and threatening the developers is not fine.

  • Member Posts: 490
    edited January 2020

    ummmhmmm. /s

    I know why you give people titles... just so you can allow them to jebait when you bring them up. (As with my post)

    When I first came to the forum I loved that person and how they thought about matters... even defended them before... but yeah nothing they did was productive and it just attempted to shadow major problems with BVHR rn which don’t pretend doesn’t exist right now.

    If you have no adversaries you create silence... period. And you removed adversaries and people were agree’ing with my post and how I responded my friend.

    Just get behaviour to do the right thing... I don’t main killer and I know what they’re going to be going through - especially the people who don’t play this game 24/7 with a full time job etc. You’re being unfair to them.

    There’s going to be a killer shortage at rank 1 if there’s nothing for them to ease the stress.

    This is all assuming you accept that your playerbase is likely above age of 18+ or whatever the game is rated.

    Post edited by dont_ask_me_again on
  • Member Posts: 490

    Definitely see a vibe of this to a degree mainly by some very acquainted followers of DBD in the “title” sense... hope it gets changed around here... it doesn’t feel like everyone is getting treated like competent people.

  • Member Posts: 490
    edited January 2020

    The devs aren’t the problem... the problem stems higher up and what’s also not fine is for them not being sure everyone can enjoy the game without a great deal of stress.

    I’m a competitive player but it in a way I’m just caring about the casual player that’s tried their best to be competitive with the time they have if they so choose to take the route.

  • Member Posts: 8,266

    Anyone see yourself in this case?

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    Just the same as you pay the game and demand everything and insult if the game doesnt turned out to your liking, like the Devs are your grooms.

  • Member Posts: 8,821

    Wouldn't it depend if you were using it as an insult, tho? Developmentally delayed is a medical term but depending on the context can be insulting. Are you claiming that you were having a discussion about the law with somebody? Or did you use a legal term as an insult?

  • Member Posts: 8,821

    I feel like people who get warnings or bans probably deserve it most of the time. I'm not exactly the nicest person on these forums and I haven't received a warning. Maybe I've slipped under the radar, though..

  • Member Posts: 1,110
    edited January 2020

    Careful, using the term "willful ignorance" will get you jai...oh wait.

    There's no way to use the term and have it be positive - but observing it as a behavior is not an insult, especially when it's blatantly represented by the people being criticized for exhibiting said behavior.

  • Member Posts: 249

    Few friends have gotten banned for stating the developers didn't play their own game and/or were bad at it.


    Which they are. But we don't talk about that.

  • Member Posts: 1,110
    edited January 2020

    Speaking of not talking about things...

    I read an old thread about people being shadow banned not too long ago. It was a thread from September of 2018 as a matter of fact. I only read it cause it was listed that it had a reply..but strangely enough even though the thread listing said it had a reply, the reply was missing when I went into the actual thread.

    It was deleted in the last week, along with a much newer thread asking about shadow banning...issue is, if you google "dead by daylight forum shadow ban", it's still the first in the search results...click the link and the thread no longer exists. That's how you know it was deleted recently. It's placement in the search rankings.

    Basically, shadow banning is when you are set to "private" in so many words. You can read posts, and in theory still post, but nobody can see your content except you, and they more or less bank on the fact that you don't notice.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning

    Here's a picture of the search results (save this link!):

    https://gyazo.com/e16f56038259d39cb954050920bd8d3f

    Here's a link to a thread of it actually happening to someone:

    Sure, you could call it a "bug"...but I feel like it's far too convenient.

    It tends to feel like that actively try to silence/get rid of that which makes them look, well...that which matches their Behavior.

  • Member Posts: 249

    I know multiple people who have suffered the same fate, it does definitely exist and it wouldn't surprise me if these posts get deleted or a mod goes "Actually we don't do that." When multiple people have claimed they do in fact do that.


    But I'm just an entitled killer main, so obviously im making stuff up because I'm angry about the Ruin change.

  • Member Posts: 29

    its just been a lot more bans than usual on here i would imagine. the game has great qualities, but seems as if it just lacks a direction, and instead of responding to the community with something like


    "WE NEED TO REMOVE RUIN IN ORDER TO GET A BASELINE ON WHAT GAMES WILL LOOK LIKE WITHOUT IT SO WE CAN QUICKLY TAKE MORE ACTION FOR BETTER GAME BALANCE."

    .. but we don't hear anything because they take forever in terms of balance adjustments; where as in games like league of legends they are CONSTANTLY changing the meta and balancing/rebalancing.. because at the end of the day balance is basically whack a mole with the stuff that ends up rising to the surface

  • Member Posts: 1,110

    Indeed.

    Instead of hearing something like what you said...we hear "We need to bork ruin so it's not so hard for new survivors". Honestly - whoever writes their PR notes needs to be sent back to customer retention training immediately. They could have alleviated a LOT of this had they worded it correctly, because the way they worded it may as well have been a giant ascii picture of a middle finger to killers.

  • Member Posts: 1,962

    While I'd love to talk about it and share the deleted post since I have an image of it, that's against the rules.

    Let's just say that the context of the post was ignored just like our calls for balance lol

  • Member Posts: 1,110

    I can actually confirm. I had a very similar experience. Actually, literally the same experience.

  • Member Posts: 249

    BHVR would never purposefully ignore their playbase haha, right guys?


    Oh wait, Ruin is still being changed, nevermind.

  • Member Posts: 745

    if you actually did something with out negative feedback it would be one thing, but we give our negative feed back AND NOTHING CHANGES.

  • Member Posts: 2,340

    Majority of the people who are banned deserve it.

  • Member Posts: 1,110

    Questionable, but good to know you've seen everyone's ban reason.

  • Member Posts: 698
    edited January 2020

    I would like to clarify that people are not just banned for "insulting" others...

    People were banned for "policing the forums".

    Making "jokes" -that was non-harmful to anyone else or threatening or insulting etc. Such as accused of making a "bait" thread... it was a joke and they were accused of trying to anger people basically. Things in that nature as well.  

    Edit: Oh right. And the people that get banned for "going around" the profanity filter, when they type in the word exactly how it is spelled (aka not going around it at all, it's just a forum fail that they didn't add it to the filter). But nope. ban.

    So, it's not just "insults"... And it's not that "simple" either. 

    I'll be honest I see people, many, getting away with insulting others, even when reported and nothing happens. I do tend to notice people being more critical are the ones to get "gone" first. 

    I also notice "bugs" that occur on these forums. But it seems very convenient... Along with many posts get magically deleted. 

    It does seem like sometimes "mods" have an agenda... (this is noted when "mods" go back in people's history to "tag" on things for ban reasoning's etc.) 

    But who moderates, the moderators... 

    All I know is. From knowing what I know.. I know my time will come.

  • Member Posts: 1,110

    You probably aren't wrong, with your last line, lol

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  • Member Posts: 55

    Well, he kind of called it I suppose. LOL

  • Member Posts: 4,125

    There must be a leggit reason to the bans but I still have to critique the rules because some rules are not 100% understandable, due to that not one way understandable rules I got once banned too^^

  • Member Posts: 7,976

    That's more of a case that people seem to have forgotten how to out their critisism in a civel manner rather then just the "pitchfork and torch" way

  • Member Posts: 1,448

    i mean i got banned for joking about staying afk as killer and not doing gens as survivor when the new ruin comes, even if it was in different threads there is far worse on the forums that doesn't even get ban.

    I can tell you this was a hard week for me to see lot of people asking questions and not being able to answer and help them like i usually do.

  • Member Posts: 8,821

    Actually plenty changes based on feedback from both roles. The problem you're having is that the changes aren't always exactly to your liking. Or you think with a big enough outcry the devs are obligated to listen to whatever a group of people are demanding. Fortunately that's not how things work.

  • Member Posts: 282

    We accusing BHVR of censorship now? This is how far people have gone?

  • Member Posts: 282

    I get a strange inkling that the only reason this thread is up is to further vilify BHVR for the change to Ruin.

  • Member Posts: 43

    This example could also be placed on how the people who play Killer feel. Look at all the changes that have taken place over time. It's telling the Killer you HAVE to play a certain way, or else you get punished, and even when you do, you are met with insults at the post game, or if you vent your displeasure on the forums, the majority of survivor players berate you and developers ignore your comments. Funny thing about it is that you need Killer players to even get a game going, yet you treat them with so much disdain, and they don't even get paid to deal with it.

  • Member Posts: 4,506
    edited January 2020

    By saying anything that anyone for any reason can find insulting, degrading, or harassing.

    I was banned once for saying something "takes a real lack of comprehension" and was banned for insulting someone. Even though they and I were both talking about the same thing.

    Oh, or calling out the devs for ######### business practices and not knowing their own game. They love to ban for that one. Likely my last post tbh. RIP.

    Also, dont EVER speak bad about fog whisperers. Or name them by name. They're the golden egg of behaviours goose apparently and can do no wrong. Even if it includes encouraging dcs as a protest.

    Ggs!

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