I have recently been banned from the site with no reason or any information given.
This happened for the second time. A month or so ago, I was suddenly banned as well, which lasted for about a week and then it was fixed. I assumed it was a bug.
When it happened for the second time just now, I was forced to pester mana on steam, because the IRC was/is dead.
Mana kindly unbanned me and let me know that it was not a bug, but in fact a staff member who banned me because of "some post I made on the forums".
Since he understandably didn't want to tell me the details, I feel compelled to make this thread.
I think everyone who reads this will agree with me that I don't really shipost on here; certainly not to the degree that a lot of members do. These are the last posts I made prior to being banned:
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Obviously, nothing banworthy is going on here, and anyone interested can check my post history to find out that neither was there anything further back.
Since I cannot see how I have ever violated any forum rules, and there was no information given with either ban (no pm or anything of the sort to even let me know I'm banned, which I only found out trying to make a post), I request with this thread that the staff member in question either explain the reasons for my repeated bans here or via PM.
The fact that mana unbanned me right away (saying that he "doesn't agree with the ban") proves my point that I was probably banned just because some staff member disliked my posts for whatever reason. Because of this, I wasn't able to participate in any i58 threads.
I'm only used this kind of behavior from tf2center staff and I'd rather not deal with it on this site.
I hope the situation will be resolved respectfully, but I will make a screenshot of this thread and in case it gets deleted and I get banned again, I will re-post it from an alt until I get told a reason not to, or enigma, being the owner, tells me he wants me to stop, in which case I guess I'll just have to leave the site. But to be honest, I have no idea why enigma, or any tf.tv staff would want this, so I hope the responsible staff will reply, because I'm genuinely curious.