As I toss and turn in the night I recall so many questions asking the same thing recently, why the ban? Why are all the admins unfair and unjust? After spinning around in my blankets like a slow motion break dancer I have come to the conclusion that it's about time for a blog.

A Shared Community

As you can clearly tell, we have a few other forums such as the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive forum. Now you must think to yourself "This is a 1.6 website, why must we hear such rubbish". Well consider the fact there's a new Game filter available, and that those forums are there for a reason. It's no secret that members of this very community play other games such as CS:GO, CSP, CS:S and maybe even others. If they own their very own forum, not only are they free to express as they will (like the Off Topic forum) but they are entitled to. What's the point of having a forum of their own if they can't ask for help or talk about the game they enjoy playing? What gives you the right to judge what they like or do not like?

If you can't embrace the fact it's a shared community with different players for different games, then ignore them for the very least and stick to the 1.6 and Off Topic forum. If you get forum banned for harassing them, just imagine having a 1.6 section on a CoD forum and have 2000 people harassing you just for asking "what rates should I put in 1.6?"

It's their forum, keep it that way.

Sensitive Topics

Lately we've seen a lot of sensitive topics such as religion or race. Now it's not illegal to discuss creed, however consider how much work we put into keeping the forums clean when things spiral out of control. You may tell us "just delete the comments that are offensive" or "ban the people insulting the religion". I wonder, every time a thread is made that is very sensitive as a topic; do you see how many comments get deleted? Do you see how many people get banned? No.

Not only do we have to ban the people being overly racist or fascist, we have to ban the people responding to them with just as bad manners. Do people listen to the basic rule of "ignore them and an admin will see that they are taken care of" or do they decide to take things their own way?

Now which logically speaking is better to do, lock the thread and ask politely to find a less sensitive topic, or ban half of the hundreds of accounts that have posted on that thread for going against the rules? Don't forget that we mean to the community as much as the community means to us. You need us to keep the forum clean, we need you to handle yourselves.

Report System

Lately people don't seem to realize what they should report and not report. A lot of reports lately have been for very simple things such as people predicting match results and so forth, that's not a serious offense and please realize that we make an effort to check the report system.

As credit to fellow crew member Schypher, he has made a list of things you should or should not do on the forums:

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Things that will make your comment deleted:

"first"/"second" comments

Any type of comment that resorts to insults as an argument, even if the person has a reason to act like that

Posting referral links (with immediate IP ban if abused)

Spamming on all threads/news (with ban)

Writing in Caps

Writing comments only in blod/italic - those features are only to highlight phrases or words, not the whole comments

Writing in other languages even if it's only a small part of the comment, this includes cursing in other languages (with possible ban if abused)

Replying to the first comment so that everyone can read it

Copy/pasting what was said on the chat during a match without adding a translation (if the teams are speaking in another language)

"neo > markeloff
loord < starix
pasha = edward"
Comments like this will be deleted, CS is a team based game and since there isn't a team with 5 f0rest's/neo's most of the matches also depends on who has the most practice on a certain map.
Posting/writing MEME's as an answer to someone

List of threads/blogs that will be deleted/locked:

Best "something" (config, gui, player) - there are TONS (and when I say TONS I'm not lying) of treads about this, just use the search function

Opening threads to disccuss a match - you can use the "Hot match" page for that.

Opening blogs to share a link/video/demo etc - the blog section is for users to post more extensive works, a debate about something, sharing his real life, his stories etc. Blogs only contaning one line of text and 10 videos, just one question, copy/pasted news/topic/older blog etc will be deleted without notice

Threads insulting players


Others:
In the movies forum section, please add a description of your video in the topic not in the first comment

Don't post videos on the movie section that weren't made by you


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If any of the above has been broken, then you are free to report as you please.

I hope you had a good read or at least some of it, and please if something happens... Just don't say we didn't warn you first.

Thank you.