Closed Oldie Forum Discouragement Appeal

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    Why do you think you got discouraged?: Maybe I used to be troll-y in the past and get involved in drama.

    For the past couple years, my forum account takes forever to load pages only when I'm logged in. I finally believe I figured out why.

    I use XenForo for my own forum too so I know about this feature:



    My forum user must be discouraged!

    I can't post new threads in this account state, so I had to create a temporary account to post this thread. I hope that's okay. edit: a thread I was trying to post finally went after trying for 30 minutes.

    -Oldie
     
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    Image didn't load, here it is again:

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    If this was applied, you would have done multiple trolling stuff to get flagged with that

    Do you have any examples?
     
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    It never got fixed though, I don't think anyone realized my account was set to discouraged.
     
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    Do you remember what you have last did to possibly warrant it then?

    Although this option exist, we barely use it and it is not an official punishment on Royals forums (just like reply-ban)
     
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    Probably best to check my user change log and contact the person who discouraged my account.

    I probably didn't break any rules but someone found my content annoying and wished I went away.

    Take a look at this thread, https://royals.ms/forum/threads/all...ant-even-work-around-by-fm-giving-rock.88023/ I would have discouraged the user as well. I'm upset I was even capable of posting such nonsense and wasting peoples' time.
     
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    Didn't see anything in that thread that would warrant the "Discouraged", will be checking with Staff team to confirm if your account had that option enabled
     
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    Have checked with the Admins about the mentioned issue

    You were indeed given the status of [Discouraged] but we were not able to confirm who did it as it was given long ago nor the details of why it was given
    (I only joined the Staff at around 2020-ish)

    However, based on your forum activity such as the 2016~2017 posts, I do not think your forum profile warrants the [Discouraged] status and have discussed with the Admins to remove it

    Unable to comment much on the matter since I don't have the details, but I can confirm during the 2 years of being on Staff as a Forum Mod, the [Discouraged] was only issued out once (not gonna reveal who)

    This informal punishment is very rarely given out and we (the Staff) do not think casual players should get it, so we hope the above explanation clarifies the situation

    Note: your new forum account was merged with the original account
     

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