The warning I received made all of my posts require approval by moderation approval before being displayed also causes this functionality with internal, project-specific subforums which is pretty silly and rather counterproductive.
I'd also like to mention that I had to find this out myself, since the message I got telling me I was warned said nothing about this imposed posting moderation, which seems a bit silly to me. It really seemed as if it was too busy being threatening and not busy enough being informative. I can't even talk to the moderator or admin who issued it about it because it gets sent through the forums as opposed of through them.
I'll just reply in the OP here because this post moderation is a dumb punishment that just punishes the moderators for my behavior: Come on, Hades, you're a smart guy. You had to know when you made that post that it was over the line. And when you step over the line, posting rights are temporarily taken away to incentivise you not to do it again. By its nature, it's meant to be an inconvenience.
This is the system working as it ought to - a feature, not a bug.
I'm not arguing being punished or that I ****posted, what I'm arguing with is how needlessly tedious it makes on people other than myself to post in mod development internal boards (and in general) while trying to help with development of said mods. It's one thing to take away easy public forum access but it's another to disrupt developer communication on a forum for developing. This is the same ****ing issue people had with monkeying years ago that the administration/mods still haven't seemed to learn from, since they're repeating that same mistake again.
And again, a big issue is that
I had to find this out myself, as the warning message told me nothing about being punished and I wouldn't know who to talk to about the punishment either. There's a big lack of transparency and that's a big issue.
And I STILL don't know how long this is going to last, that's another thing left out of the warning message, which again, was useless in every way except for telling me what was offensive.
Hades,
You have received a warning for insulting other users and/or staff members in regards to the message:
Re: Warships of the TEI (GTD Titan WIP).
Please cease these activities and abide by the forum rules otherwise we will take further action.
Regards,
The Hard Light Productions Forums Team.
This is completely opaque. I do not know that I am punished (since warning doesn't mean punishing someone), I don't know how long I am punished for the punishment I don't know I have, and I don't know who gave it out so I don't know who to talk to about it. This is egregious, this is a big part of the issues the community has had with HLP's moderation and administration.