RIP: My 10 year old Warframe account that was banned on first ever offense on any grounds for saying verbatim "No I don't support the trans rights movement and I don't want it spammed in my clan chat."
Warframe had a whole thing where it's chat mods were a group of trannies and openly man-hating feminists who were all friends/having sex IRL, and they hated their own users and sometimes said as much. There were a bunch of incidents where people would get banned for some seriously stupid political reasons and the mods wrote a bunch of crazy stuff even the people on reddit recognized as crazy. So the developers, at least one of whom was ALSO a personal friend of the chat mods in question, finally had to do something, and they... appointed another one of their friends as oversight. Hell, one of them actually named their account "friendzoning misandrist". Not even imp1 calls himself "Bob Womanhater". But yes, these are the sorts of people who would absolutely ban someone from chat for saying that sort of thing, and try their best to elevate it to one of their friends at the company to ban him from the game as a whole, and quite possibly succeed.
Anyway, I've had a quick look for documentation and most of the coverage of the whole warframe chat thing sucks because it assumes you're already familiar with whatever came before, and a lot of it has been scrubbed off the internet, but the kiwi farms thread doesn't assume prior knowledge and covers the broad strokes. I seem to recall oneangrygamer had better coverage, but that's all gone now.
RIP: My 10 year old Warframe account that was banned on first ever offense on any grounds for saying verbatim "No I don't support the trans rights movement and I don't want it spammed in my clan chat."
Warframe had a whole thing where it's chat mods were a group of trannies and openly man-hating feminists who were all friends IRL, and they hated their own users and sometimes said as much. There were a bunch of incidents where people would get banned for some seriously stupid political reasons and the mods wrote a bunch of crazy stuff even the people on reddit recognized as crazy. So the developers, at least one of whom was ALSO a personal friend of the chat mods in question, finally had to do something, and they... appointed another one of their friends as oversight. Hell, one of them actually named their account "friendzoning misandrist". Not even imp1 calls himself "Bob Womanhater". But yes, these are the sorts of people who would absolutely ban someone for saying that sort of thing.
Anyway, I've had a quick look and most of the coverage of the whole warframe chat thing sucks because it assumes you're already familiar with whatever came before, and a lot of it has been scrubbed off the internet, but the kiwi farms thread doesn't assume prior knowledge and covers the broad strokes. I seem to recall oneangrygamer had better coverage, but that's all gone now.
RIP: My 10 year old Warframe account that was banned on first ever offense on any grounds for saying verbatim "No I don't support the trans rights movement and I don't want it spammed in my clan chat."
Warframe had a whole thing where it's chat mods were a group of trannies and openly man-hating feminists who were all friends IRL, and they hated their own users and sometimes said as much. There were a bunch of incidents where people would get banned for some seriously stupid political reasons and the mods wrote a bunch of crazy stuff even the people on reddit recognized as crazy. So the developers, at least one of whom was ALSO a personal friend of the chat mods in question, finally had to do something, and they... appointed another one of their friends as oversight. Hell, one of them actually named their account "friendzoning misandrist". Not even imp1 calls himself "Bob Womanhater". But yes, these are the sorts of people who would absolutely ban someone for saying that sort of thing.
Anyway, I've had a quick look and most of the coverage of the whole warframe chat thing sucks because it assumes you're already familiar with whatever came before, and a lot of it has probably been scrubbed off the internet, but the kiwi farms thread doesn't assume prior knowledge and covers at least the broad strokes.