Recently I got a 3-day suspension for "ignoring" a sticky. Thats the way the system sees it. But my perspective was I got caught up in the Bioshock hype while waiting for the European release and decided to go post about something I came across. Now unfortunatly for me after posting one of the stickys hit me. "Offical Bioshock discussion thread. 3-Day ban for ignore". Just my luck with no way to close or delete the thread by the time I could get a mod to lock it I would have already have gotten the ban.

Now before you commentators just say I deserved it I already know I did and I have no complaint or grudge against the mods for it. It's the way the mods and Gamespot handled my requests afterwards. This seems to be the part nobody understands or just plain ignores. I got my friend to sign into their account username "Crionna" you can visit their account here. http://www.gamespot.com/pages/profile/index.php?user=crionna

Unforunatly not anymore You see I got them to ask a few questions regarding my suspension, Such as what exactly is taken away from my capibilities. But the mod completly ignored the question. Instead the reply was "Right your friend" banned thier account and did me for ban dodging.

Ban Dodging??? Why the hell would I want to ban dodge. I've been a member of the site for some time, subscribing for almost 2 years. Why would I want to waste money getting a subscriber account banned for something stupid. What about my friend "Crionna".
If the mod had looked at their sign-up date they would have seen they were a member for well over a year. Come on now I was hardly contemplating to dodge a ban despite the fact I have so much to lose for over a year. I think the mod was just following routine and banning the low level account. I can understand that but my friend keeps pissing me off because it ended up my fault their account got hit by the ban hammer.

So getting someone to ask the mods a question was incredibly successful so lets contact Gamespot's customer support and see what they can tell me. Finally a use for one of the total access perks "Priority Customer Support". I'd have my answer within 72 hours, just before my ban was up. Oh yeah I "ban-dodged" so that was a further 3 days. So I asked the same question Crionna asked the mods but added my friends account got banned for something they didn't do. So all I can do now is wait.

That support ticket was sent Monday afternoon I didn't get my response within 72 hours I got t today Saturday. So the further 3-day ban was apparently cancelled because of the circumstances. A bit late as I only had ne more day to go. I had said in the support "I know I deserved the original ban but...." The reply: This is an accurate moderation. Please make sure you read the sticky threads in the future to avoid being moderated in the same manner in the future.

What about the rest of the question, what are the limitations of a suspended user? What about the unfair perma-ban of Crionna?
Nada.

Which is why after my experience of just glancing over a sticky I'm proposing stickys become colour coded regarding their importance in this thread. http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25876016
Please comment on that idea there.

Anyhoo all comments on this blog post are welcome.