After waiting days for a Ninja to finally respond, I got my situation explained. So I thought I'd share some Constructive Criticism. [u]Baseless Warnings[/u] - So I learned that Users can get Harassment Warnings for arguing with another User (with insults/or without). You if you continue a heated debate with someone you can, and will be hit with Harassment Warnings.... What are the problems with this. [b]1)[/b] It is not only impolite, it's really misleading. - It leads people to believe they have broken the CoC, even though they haven't. And the Ninjas just want them to knock of the argument. Why not just send a message to the Users, instead of a Moderation action... This can have unintended consequences... [b]2)[/b] If you didn't know, Harassment violations can get you banned for 100s of years, yet spamming Porn/gore will get you a week ban. So not only is the Warning system being misused, the consequences of this can be ridiculous. If you get a legit Ban for harassing someone, yet has a history of "harassment warnings"(even though they may have not been actual harassment), the ninja will look at that history, not individually, just that you are a "repeat harasser", so because of this misuse, you could be permaBanned because of a technicality. [b]3)[/b] It gives you a bad record, I don't know about all of yous, but some people give a damn about their account. I certainly do, many other Users do. So if you are given a Warning for arguing (yet - classed as harassment), you can/will be treated as a lesser User by Bungie employees and Ninjas, even mentors... Solution - If a Ninja has a thinks a argument is getting too heated, or dragging out. Just send them a message, politely asking them to knock it off. An informal Warning - basically. I know some Ninjas do this, which is good of them, but the general Ninja population needs to take this on board. They need to start listening to there Community. This should become Official Policy. - Why am I directing this post at Ninjas? Because why would Bungie listen to some Alternate account.... who's main has been banned for "Harassment". I now know the reasons behind the ban, yet it is still listed as "Harassment". So, this is directed at Ninjas, so if they agree with this, they can influence official policy. [u]Appeals[/u] - Why.... why are these gone. These were a great way of communicating with Ninjas about your Warnings/Bans. Now Ninjas just expect you to Private Message them. Couple problems with the Current system. [b]1)[/b] You don't know which Ninja Moderated you. So all you get from this Ninja is - "Play Nice". So you have just been moderated by "Anonymous User", you don't know who to communicate about it with, and all you get is "Play Nice". That is a really great way to piss Users off by the way... [b]2)[/b] Ninjas don't reply. (This may be a time based thing) I messaged many Ninjas about my issues. Some of them responded. Yet all they done was - 1> Outright dismiss me. 2> I'l get back to you - 2 days ago. 3> Avoid talking about it. Only one of them days later, found my rants, and actually responded appropriately. So my rants did accomplish something. I have heard from many others, that Ninjas just don't answer PMs, so this is a problem. 3) The Moderation Notifications are useless. All they do is tell you what offending Content has been removed, it does not state why it was removed, just a vague [quote]"Violation of the Personal Attacks/Harassment clause of Code of Conduct. The Offending Content has been removed. Future violations will result in a Ban, "PLAY NICE". [/quote] This does not provide any closure, or reasoning. As I showed up above, you can be given a Moderation action for Reason "X" - even tho reason "X" was unrelated. The whole system is a mess. So the Notifications just leave you standing there, confused, and infuriated by the "Play Nice" trolling by Bungie - Which really has to go... Solution - Bring back appeals, so the User knows which Ninja moderated them, and can privately discuss it with said Ninja (instead of being told to PM Offline Ninjas.... - You can PM the active Ninja who just censored you. This way Ninjas can't cop out of the Conversation, they are actually forced to have a respectful conversation (I'l look into it - 2 days ago...). With Appeals, Moderation Notifications wouldn't have to provide reasoning, the Ninja can. Don't forget to "Play nice"... [quote][b]Ninja edit:[/b] [spoiler]This thread has been moved to the #Feedback forum. [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/139533839/0/0]See Cozmo's thread here[/url] for more information about the #Feedback tag and its uses. Feel free to private message the moderator who moved your post, [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Profile/254/4878]Spawn,[/url] for further clarification about why this topic was moved.[/spoiler][/quote]