Quote from: efialtis_banned on Today at 03:31:54 PM

You do realize that some of your arguments contradict? This is a complete joke, go ahead, instead of reducing the spam and fighting scam, you are wasting energy for something like this.

What-about-ism isn't an argument. I handle all kinds of rule offenses every day. Just cause I'm not omniscient and omnipotent doesn't mean I shouldn't enforce clear-cut rule violations when I notice them. Also, if you see contradictions, feel free to point them out.

Quote from: efialtis_banned on Today at 03:31:54 PM

Edit 1: Nobody was being paid in exchange for posting - you decide you d want to put it this way but one may argue here, even objectively.

From the deleted giveaway post:

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Get 10 USDT - no deposit needed!
<...>
2. Reply to this post with your BC.GAME username in this thread
3. You will receive a 10 USDT shitlink once verified you are tracked correctly

Seems pretty clear cut to me.

Quote from: efialtis_banned on Today at 03:31:54 PM

Edit 2: Bringing up previous bans, yeah - as unjustified really, which is why one of them was reversed and the other one was also discussed highly with various opinions on how to "interprete" the rules.

The reversed ban (participating in an on-forum altcoin giveaway) didn't increase the duration of your current one though it should've given you enough info that there's rules against on-forum altcoin giveaways. I don't see any opinions on interpretations of the other ban (which happened prior to the one which got reversed) since I couldn't find any threads regarding it. Feel free to link me the thread though if it wasn't reversed, there's no reason as to why that should count as the ban not existing.

Quote from: Royse777 on Today at 03:58:09 PM

We need a forum moderator, not a lawyer. Lawyers are good at winning arguments. For the god sake, this is a forum, and we are dumb people (/sarcasm) hanging around. Our sin is that we love this space. When we make a post, we just post it. Only keep the commons in mind that we are not spamming and not harming others.

efialtis is an experienced member promoting his business on Bitcointalk. The level of professionalism expected of such a user is higher than someone who's just "hanging around".

Quote from: Royse777 on Today at 03:58:09 PM

But this place turns out to be a law enforcement agency where someone makes a small mistake (without being aware*) and they get kicked out very easily. All the blood and sweat means nothing at all at the end.

The ban isn't permanent, this isn't a small mistake nor is this the first time the user has shown ignorance of the forum's rules.

Quote from: Royse777 on Today at 03:58:09 PM

I don't understand why other mods do not notice such things and keep banning users. It's always you who bring yourself to the spotlight for similar cases.

Because when someone disagrees with my decision, I feel the need to explain my position and to hear out theirs. That's why I've started the unnoficial rules thread and why I respond to the extremely wide majority of PMs I receive - I don't want my decisions to seem arbitrary and want to make sure the user and the community understand my reasoning, even if they disagree. In certain cases, the community's or the banned user's arguments manage to convince me in which case I both reduce or remove the punishment as well adjust how I handle future cases. I've seen numerous ban appeal threads where the mod who issued the ban (whoever they may be) never responded and while I don't blame them, I don't feel like that's how I want to respond to users questioning my decisions.

When it comes to enforcing rules regarding altcoin giveaways (which what I assume you're alluding to with "similar cases"), the reason I enforce them more often compared to other mods because, well, I used to (and technically still am) the altcoin board moderator and thus have both seen theymos ban users for running on-forum altcoin giveaways as well as issued many bans for such offenses as well.

Quote from: Royse777 on Today at 03:58:09 PM

*Do you think if efialtis knew that he will get banned for this, then he would post such thing? It did not strike his mind (in fact, this does not strike my mind too as a bannable post) the way it struck in your mind, or he would not make such a post. This has nothing to do with his experience and getting banned previously - the altcoin giveaway rule is too complicated to understand, and the interpretation is very different for different users.

Were I to ignore all the users who ran altcoin giveaways and "didn't know" it was prohibited, we might as well strike the "no altcoin giveaways" rule out of the rule book since most people don't do their due diligence before posting on the boards.