It is a question I asked with the strong assumption that this is supposed to be the correct place.
Then the question is meaningless if you decide to post your case anyways without waiting for an answer on said question. You know what
the appropiate thread is.
The information changed. Before, no specific posting was known to me that has caused the ban; the information I had was (1) a mod answer that it was due to the thread the posting is in (2) I also got from Kevin a transcript of the ban reason (it being "sorry, no pedos allowed").
Kevin himself does not want to deal with Gaf anymore either way so take that as you will in regards to how many you want to dedicate on this.
I only bring this up in threads that focus on moderation and bans, you make it sound like I shit up the whole forum with negativity because of that.
Because you literally only need one thread to argue your case and not post it in every single topic that deals with the topic of moderation. Because doing so comes across as
nagging.
That I am consistently negative of what I perceive as an unfair and needlessly harsh ban shouldn't be surprising, do you expect me to change my opinion several times and jump to positive valuations of the same fact in between?
All this time you could have just tagged the staff for this (and in the right thread). Let me just tag the op for you
Palliasso
and
DGrayson
so they can take a look.
I do not know what the parole system entails and I am unaware of any such system implemented on Resetera, so I cannot comment on that.
What the Parole system does is that after a certain amount of time for permbans (usually a year), a permbanned user is allowed to make a
parole request to the staff. This request is sent to a specialized email address solely dedicated for these things (On the Dutch site it was called
negoiator, GAF could use
parolehearings at NeoGAF.com or something like that.
When making a request, the permbanned user has to
motivate why they think the permban needs to be overturned, and convince the staff that the user has changed. After that, such a request will be evaluated by staff (Or a specialized duo of staff that does these requests). When the motivation is successful, a permban can be overturned, with a warning to the user to value this chance appropiately.
When the motivation is unsuccesful, the appeal is rejected and the permban is extended by a year, before a user can make another parole request. All these requests will be logged, so that the staff can keep track of how many parole requests someone has made, just like a real prison. Making multiple requests will be meaningless as all they do is extend the ban with a day extra.
The advantage of this system is that its more
humane and encourages transparency and it answers positively to the notion that people's views and behaviors change over time. This is also why such a parole request should only be possible after a year and not after 3 months or so. This gives those permed user under the NeoGAF 2.0 an opportunity to return even after a perm, provided they supply a proper motivation.
PS: you can write a mail to an ERA address to get your ban evaluated at. I only knew of this since last week since this was apparently silently added in. Perhaps ill make use of it aswell.