The last tale of a character

I have a story to tell. It is long, prepare to skip it if you don't like such long walls of texts.

btw, I am Quicksilver, if that colours the story for you in any way, I am not hiding it at the very least.

As most of you know, I was using my orgs since the (unfair) ban of my character. Many of them was banned by ill-wishing admins and mods, but the last one, named acerola lasted a surprisingly long time - until a few days ago I strongly disagreed with the_mihai (a community moderator, known as admin) on the subject of the new military rules. So strongly, that I myself edited my comment, modifying the wording so that it would not be insulting - only criticizing (a s.h.i.t.t.y changed into not too brilliant and such changes). Despite of the changes, the_mihai was so enraged that he banned my org from the forum, banned my other org too which only asked why the comment was deleted, and after a few angry PM-s in which I demanded to be unbanned, he banned my org permanently from erep - citing repeated insults as reason... which was quite clearly not the case. The appeal was denied within half an hour, with no reason, so quite clearly he had done it himself at once.

The second part of the story: I got angry, I think understandably angry, because my criticism was neither stronger nor worse than any of the rest in the topic that users said. After the ban of my org which I used for quite a while, I got more than angry, I became enraged - this blatant display of abusing an admin's power, the callousness by which he denied the truth and the appeal too, and yes, the idiocy of the new rules too - they all made me so angry that I literally seethed. I had another org, with which, I hurled insults at the_mihai - the org was banned of course in a very short order, and in the appeal I sent him some more piece of my mind only - knowing that this ban, and this ban alone was totally justified. It was worth an org to finally tell him what I thought of him.

The tale gets interesting from here. I borrowed an org from a friend, named Sh4de & Sh4de, which was not my org, never banned, never penalized - a clean sheet so to speak. With this org, I started to remind the_mihai, that his actions will have consequences, as unfairness and injustice always do - namely that his karma will visit upon him every sin that he comits (I believe Christians have a similar belief). I also reminded him a couple of times that my character and my orgs will haunt his conscience, I wished him the very same that he had done to me, and when he ansered once I answered that PM too. All in all maybe a dozen PM-s, all different, all meaningful, none of them containing a single insulting word even. But alas... the org was permanently banned after a few hours - the reason for the ban is SPAM. I appealed of course, beind incredulous that he would so blatantly overstep any laws.

But I did not want any more friends to loose their orgs, so I decided that the best would be to register a new character and take matters into its hand. This character is what I write with now - nicknamed Ghostwalker67. I tried to ask why was my previous org's conduct spam, so I asked both the_mihai and admins in general in tickets what constituted spam, and how many PM-s a day that is one allowed to write before an admin banned it for spam... permanently. Because that org had no previous bans, not even a single FP - it was banned permanently for a dozen or so PM-s, written in a particular subject, not insulting, not meaningless... and that seriously questioned in my mind how moderation works. If an admin can abuse his power so blatantly, so atrociously, then what can anyone expect? Because the story hasn't ended yet - when I last came online, all my tickets were closed with not a single answer to them, all my orgs still banned, and all my appeals denied without a word of an explanation.

Now, I had always known, ever since admins banned Quicksilver, that moderation was totally unfair, unjust and cruel to the extreme. What made me now to write this all down, when he will probably just delete it soon? That I had hoped that the_mihai would be at least a bit different. That he used to be a player, that he looked like a decent sort of a fellow when we met, that he was seemingly intelligent enough to grasp the existing situations in the moderation and that they were bad for the company, bad for the users, bad for business. And the first changes that he made were giving reason me to hope. Because you see, blatant censorship, outrageous favoritism and bias can only take a business so far... whereas solid, fair, open and just foundations are far harder to lay down, but they provide a much more stable structure, a much healthier enviroment - and you can all guess which enviroment is better for business - the healthy or the festering one? But the first hopeful signs have all dissappeared in time. All the bad habits, the bad practices, the bad rules came back - and lately multiplied too. And my case now, embodies this whole process, of course to me only, as I am a relative nobody nowadays, but for me it is a sort of a climax, in which a long-festering sore suddenly burst.

In the course of the last few months, I was mainly still around, because he made me a promise. I have long known that he broke that, I have long felt that he wanted to worm out of it, to shed the uncomfortable burden - yes, my character's unban. It doesn't really matter how he accomplished it, how the whole admin-team was set against it - I knew it, I felt it, I sensed it. They are very simply afraid of me, of the opinion I can tell, of the clout that I still have - and did their best to blacken my name in every way they could, to make it impossible for me to follow the game with my org, to alienate from me all those who used to be beside me. And since I am not perfect, I frequently fell for their sly provocations - I do have a very short temper sometimes. Well, they are succeeding, I know - all the tools and power is on their side, on mine it is only truth. I wowed never to give up, no matter how foolhardy it is, no matter that it is quite unhealthy to me in the IRL aspect. I could elaborate this part further, but it is already too long, and if I did that it would only reinforce my crazyness in many eyes.

So, to conclude the story, it is a fine example how the bad system with bad rules and bad reinforcers can lead to a total disaster. Because - as some of you can still remember - I did a helluva lot for erepublik, and had they not alienated me totally, I could have done a lot od good for it too. And they lost a lot of other good people in the same way - by driving them away from this unhealthy, festering, rotten enviroment. Can they afford this? Are they themselves good enough for the business? Even if they are all brilliant and hardworking - which they all are not - are they enough to work miracles and make erep a successful busines - and a good game?

Facts prove that they are not. The disastrous changes that many of these players that I mentioned warned about, the unheeded tons of advice that they ignored, the wasting of their own resources on matters not only immaterial but downright harmful, the self-destructing, suicidal course that they ut erep on are all signs that they are alone - cannot do the job. Hell, they even ignore their own handpicked CP's advice, why do I expect them to heed anything else...? But well... I am running out of energy to tell more. It has really became a tale, and went far from my orgs' bans. I had to spill my feelings, to put them down once more. It will probably be a short-living tale - or a closed topic, or a banned character... or anything in their repertoire that makes a matter unheard of.

Instead of hearing it out.

Which is too bad.

Quicksilver

The end of the story: Ghostwalker67, the character registered purely to write this is now permanently banned, becasue of this very text - dubbed as 'illegal public debate'. That means the_mihai is really on the warpath, banning everything that belongs to me, denying every appeal that I make, closing every ticket that I write - answering to nothing, abusing his position as totally as he possibly can. It is sad really, to see a person sliding more and more into the stinking marsh of unfairness and injustice.

Ban-unban

Ban - unban - ban - unban - ban - unban

eredeti cikk itt

UPDATE: that article was deleted, and my org banned for it. I am now on my last org, named acerola.

Foreword: this article is not intended to question any authority. It is just a quiet musing, a description of happenings, about something that I must endure - and endure it I will. I will persevere. I will not give up, because truth and justice are worth fighting for. I am [url=http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1232749]Quicksilver[/url] and I will always be Quicksilver, no matter how it annoys some people up high.

This is getting ridiculous - I would even call it funny, but it is rather sad really. My org ([url=http://www.erepublik.com/en/organization/1250807]Moon-Circle[/url]), like me ([url=http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1232749]Quicksilver[/url]), is banned (permanently) on no reason (ban text giving nothing), then unbanned as somebody decides that nothing is still not good enough to ban a person/org; then banned again, also with no reason or reasons so outrageous that unban is coming as a matter of course; then banned again, always permanently, never a warning or a day or something... then unban again, then ban again - every time losing my friends, and my subscriptions. I even know which admin is doing it to me, although I cannot say his name; but where does one complain for an admin's personal vendetta...? Even for a moderator's malice and unfair ban it is useless to complain, because tickets get closed, matters unchanged always. But against an admin's persecution what can one do? Tickets - he reads them, and ignores them. Open letters - he moderates them and bans for them. Writing to owners - they don't care what admins do.

Moon-Circle got permanently banned 5 times since my character, Quicksilver got permanently banned - that is for 5 months. It got unbanned 4 times, the last being this morning, about one hour after the previous ban-unban. I used this org since, made a newspaper in it, entitled [url=http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/quicksilver-neveben-207300/1]In Quicksilver's name[/url], and tried to enjoy the game as much as I could with an org. I rebuilt my reputation damaged by them, friends-list, subscriptions to my paper, just to be banned again and again, thereby losing everything again and again... It is clear to me, that admins want to discredit me in the eyes of those who don't know the events of almost half a year ago. They want to show me in a light of a convicted flamer, troll, liar and betrayer of moderation. They want to show me as a vile person who is justifiably banned by innocent, ever-well-meaning and fair admins and moderators.

If I had gone on this line of thought, I would step over the line of erep law, and start questioning their decisions. I do not do so, because I want this article to remain on erep, to show facts, public facts, that happened, and my thoughts about them to many people. So this article do not step over that line.

Quicksilver (banned)
Moon-Circle org (banned)
Mensa HungarIQa org
acerola org

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Előszó: ez a cikk nem kérdőjelez meg semmiféle felsőbb hatalmat itt, nem akar vádolni vagy támadni, csak egy csendes tűnődés arról, ami történt és történik velem. Nem adom fel. Nem adom fel, hogy igazságot találjak, mert csak akkor lehet azt találni, ha hiszek benne. És az igazság megéri, hogy harcoljak érte. Én [url=http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1232749]Quicksilver [/url]voltam és maradok is örökké, bármennyire is zavar ez sokakat.

A dolgok mára kezdtek nevetségessé válni - nevetségessé, mondom, bár eléggé szomorú is, hogy ez megtörténhet. Az orgomat (Moon-Circle), ahogy a karimat is, véglegesre bannolták, okot nem adva rá a ban szövegében, majd unbannolták, ahogy valaki rájött, hogy a semmi nem elég ok a permabanra; aztán megint bannolva lett, annyira nevetséges okkal, hogy az unban szinte azonnal jött rá; de megint bannoltak, unbannoltak... minden alkalommal elveszítve a barátokat, az előfizetéseket. Még azt is tudom/sejtem, hogy melyik admin műveli ezt, noha a nevét persze nem lehet kimondani. De hogy hol lehet egy admin bosszúja ellen tiltakozni? Még egy moderátor szemétségei ellen sem lehet, hiszen a reportokat ignorálják, a dolgok sosem változnak meg... na de egy admin ellen? Ő bírálja el a ticketeket, és zárja le ha akarja. Nyílt levelek - ő moderálja és büntet érte. Levél a tulajdonosoknak - nem érdekli őket, hogy az adminok mit művelnek.

A Moon-Circle orgom azóta, hogy Quicksilverként bannoltak, vagyis 5 hónapja, ötször lett véglegesre bannolva, majd unbannolva, utoljára ma éjjel (ban) és reggel (unban), majd ban megint. Amióta a karimat bannolták, ezt az orgot használtam, újságot kezdtem el megint írni vele, a [url=http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/quicksilver-neveben-207300/1]Quicksilver nevében[/url]-t, és próbáltam a játékot így, orggal élvezni. Újjáépítettem a reputációmat, amit bemocskoltak, a barátokat újra megkerestem, az előfizetőket gyűjtöttem - és újra meg újra, amikor kezdtem egyenesbe jutni, megint bannoltak, elveszítve megint mindent... tisztán látom, mi a céljuk: hogy diszkreditáljanak azok szemében, akik nem tudnak a majd félévvel ezelőtti eseményekről. Úgy akarnak beállítani, mint egy elítélt bűnözőt, trollt, flémert, hazugot, aki elárulta a moderációt. Úgy akarnak beállítani, mint egy megrögzött rosszindulatú illetőt, akit az igazságos és jóakaratú moderátorok és adminok egyszerűen kénytelenek megbüntetni.

És ha továbbmennék ezen a gondolaton, akkor valóban átlépném azt a vonalat, amit az erep szabályai meghúznak, és vádolnék, támadnék ellenük. De nem teszem. Nem teszem, mert azt akarom, hogy ezt a cikket minél többen olvassák - még ha nincs is többezer előfizetője ennek az újságnak mint a [url=http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/legendarium-179777/1]Legendáriumnak[/url], sőt többszáz sem, mint a [url=http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/quicksilver-neveben-207300/1]Quicksilver nevében[/url]-nek - hogy lássák a tényeket, a történteket. Így ez a cikk nem lépi át ezt a láthatatlan vonalat.

Quicksilver (banned)
Moon-Circle org (banned)
Mensa HungarIQa org
acerola org
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Zoli cikke

Mert mindenkinek joga van a szóláshoz, a szabad véleménynyilvánításhoz és a gondolatai közléséhez - amíg ezzel másokat nem sért, illetve jogaiban nem korlátoz.

Because everyone has a right for saying his/her opinion freely, until it hurts no other people or restrict their rights.

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Zoli cikkét 356 vote és 71 komment után törölték, ki tudja milyen okból. Amint az látszik belőle, nem sértő, nem flame, nem szítja, hanem csendesíteni próbálja az indulatokat. Mégis törölték. Az erepulikon nem szabad ugyanis a moderálásról beszélni.Nem kritizálni, még beszélni sem róla. Ezért került ide a cikk, és a linkje az erepublikra.

Zoli's article was deleted after getting 356 votes and 71 comments. As you can see it is not flaming, not insulting, quite the opposite, it tries to calm passions. It was still deleted, because on eRepublik, one cannot talk about moderation. Not only criticism is forbidden, but the bare fact of its existence too.

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My opinion regarding yesterday’s events
Comment-newspaper 71 comments (All) today Translate

First of all I would like to apologize from all those who felt offended by my article that I have published yesterday for which I was temporarily banned for one day. I knew it was offending, and I knew a ban was coming for it. It was written in a moment of rage. I wrote the article right after Sebahmah published his, but postponed publishing it, waiting for the other to be erased. When I saw that hours passed and no action was taken I have published mine.

I like propaganda, writing it or reading others propaganda. There is a thin line between provocative and flaming articles. Insults make the difference. And yes, Sebahmah article was insulting toward Hungarians. It said that that thousand of Hungarians in this game are extremists, that they are fueled by hate towards Romania. I acknowledge that there extremist in this game, they are on both sides of the fence, but we cannot talk about thousands of extremist on either side.

I could have erased Sebahmah’s article myself. A couple of weeks ago I received an invite to join the Community Moderator team, so I had access to the tools needed to erase that article. I was not the only one offended who was a Community Moderator. But we have not done so, because we would have been called biased for such an action. Anyway this morning I have announced that I will leave the Community Moderator team. My reasons are multiple, not related to this event. I did not really have time to be as active as needed to do that job and I want to play this game as all other players without the privilege to censor and ban others even if they deserve it.

We are all biased to some extent. We all carry our real life baggage with us. These are sensible points and we react if we are pushed. Some may consider that people overreacted, but again it is a point of view. Romanians cheered when Sebahmah published his article, while Hungarians felt offended. Hungarians cheered when Kovacskoko and I have answered with our own articles, while Romanians felt offended. It only depended on which side you stood.

We all made mistakes. We all poked at the other sensible points. Sebahmah called Hungarians extremists and haters of Romania. This is really sensible as the vast majority of the Hungarian community; both in game as outside are balanced and try to achieve a better cooperation with Romania. And them somebody comes and throws it in your face that there are thousands of extremist in game, who only came because they hated Romania. And you cannot say that this refers only to the game, as it tells that they came from real life into the game fueled by hate towards Romania.

Kovacskoko posted a picture with gipsy children saying that he found it on Google while searching on Romania. This was a blow under the belt, and Romanians felt offended. He did not mention that they were gypsies, but people felt offended anyway. This is a clear sign that there are real life issues and problems regarding this community both in Hungary as Romania.

My article was offending to, because beside using terms taken from Sebahmah’s article I used the word pussy. I used it as cat or coward but taken out of context many interpreted it as a female genital organ. What could I say, I knew it that in slang it meant that too, but maybe we are watching too many movies where it is used almost exclusively for this slang meaning.

I feel that all 3 of us deserved punishment for our actions, but I disagree with the level of punishment. Sebahmah and I we received a one day ban and 1 FP, while Kovacskoko received yesterday 3.5 FP and reaching 5 FP he received a permanent ban. 0.5 FP have been given to him for an article considered spam – it was an article regarding ornithology masked as battle orders. For his insulting article he received 3 FP. I consider that 3 FP is out of line, taking into account that all other parties involved received 1 FP for the insults and flaming.

Will this decision be turned over? I hope so, but I think not, because now admins and Community Moderators must prove once more that they run the show so they will probably bully around just like after the battle for WSR when they banned several Romanians for contesting their authority and judgment.

Will this stop me or others from trying? Certainly not! I consider that we all must pay for our mistakes but the punishment should be equal. So I ask all of those who agree with me to use the contact form, submit a ticket in the report abuse or feedback section and ask the change of Kovacskoko punishment from 3 FP to 1 FP similar to others involved in yesterdays happening.

I hope than in the future will be able to find other ways of communicating ant teasing each other without using insults or flaming.

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Neked Kampec!

Megvolt az elnökválasztás, és a kiélezett küzdelem eredményeképpen Kampec (KARD), a volt hadügyminiszter lett az elnök 2031 szavazttal Shaok (MHP - 1668 szavazat), Zsizsik (MKKP - 255 szavazat) és Adam the Engineer (SZEM - 233 szavazat) előtt. A szavazás napját és éjszakáját szinte végig tarkították a kölcsönös vádaskodások, kiteregetések és kommentháborúk. A szavazás végefelé, már biztos Kampec-győzelemnél Shaok még megpróblkozott az állami orgok (eMNB, NAT, MFB) örökös szerződéses bebetonozásával, de ezeket a szerződéseket déltájra az adminok érvénytelenítették és megtörtént az orgok átadása.

Reggeltájt egy bannolási hullám söpört végig eMagyarországon, amiben több testvérpár és egy gépről játszó rokonok hullottak el, de nagyrészük szintén déltájra már unbannolva lett. Ezt az elnöki medálok és személyek megkettőződése követte, azaz erep ismét bugzott.

A szavazással párhuzamosan történt az ukrán ATO, azaz a helyzet bebiztosítása, majd a finnországi TO, de ez utóbbit hajnaltájban félbeszakította a francia segítségkérés, akiket az USA próbált TO-zni, így ettől kezdve oda mentek az emberek, és sikeresen meg is akadályoztuk azt.

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