Moderation Updates

GosuGamers is a community that works hard for high standards both when it comes to newsreporting and sportsmanship, but also among the users within its community.

Unfortunatly the DotA section has had some problems in its forums and comment sections. To ensure everyone a pleasant stay and in an attempt to increase the quality of the discussions GosuGamers has decided to bring down the hammer on those who try to ruin this.

To create a high quality community takes lots of work, and the least pleasant part of this work is to punish our users. But when members step out of line this is necessary. Our moderators will from now on start becoming much tougher against spammers, flamers and trolls. There is no place for such behavior on this site, and it only ruins the experience for serious members wanting serious discussion about the game we all love.

We refer to our rules, which are not changed (you can find them by clicking here). Rather, we will start enforcing these rules more strictly. Also, there are a few things we want to emphasize more heavily since there have been problems with them:
- Only one account per person. We do not want to find out you have been pretending to be someone you are not, or trying to get away from warnings and bad behaviour on another account. Such accounts will be locked on sight.
- No spamming! Posts like "1st" or similar will not be tolerated. Other posts that are completely irrelevant to the discussion also goes under this note. Do not derail or dillute discussions!
- No flamebaiting! Purposefully trying to trick people in to a fight is as bad as starting the fight out right yourself.

We ask everyone to respect this. The best day of a moderator is when he does not need to do any work, because the reasons moderators are here are because we will love the forums. We ask everyone to help us with this by not feeding obvious trolls, answering or giving attention to users and posts that flagrantly break the rules and try to ruin the discussions. Instead use the report button and let us moderators deal with it.

Naturally good natured jokes and encouragements like "good post!" does not go under our definition of spam or thread derailing. We all like a laugh.

Hopefully this will give more room for quality discussions and encourage users to enjoy our forums even more.