Five days later, it's time to wrap this discussion up:
Take home messages for blockers:
-Every server is a block server. Disregard the tags which indicate otherwise.
-Blocking is encouraged.
-You can block with impunity, even when moderators are around:
- As the example of Jesus Christ has shown, moderators will still demand evidence even though there have been three consecutive vote calls to kick you by different players. The particular moderator, just a fish, doesn't know how to record a demo, let alone how to import one in his client, but he will demand one nonetheless just for the sake of it. Once such evidence has been provided, as the case of this topic displays, nothing will be done ragardless.
- As the example of Vloom shows, which I've witnessed today, it takes three consecutive calls by three different players plus a message in the chat adressing a moderator, in this particular case CrashtimeHD, for them to start noticing you. You have blocked several players up to this point, but they won't kick you straight away. No, they will friendly ask you to stop. CrashtimeHD isn't like the other moderators though, he's a brave young man and brings up the courage to utter a threat: "one more block and I will have to kick you". But Vloom is intelligent and knows that the dreadful words of CrashtimeHD are merely an empty threat, and continues to block. And indeed, after two more players blocked and one more votecall, nothing happened. A further, fifth votecall will then kick you for five minutes. Just change the server or come back again after five minutes.
-Corollary to the point above, you don't have to read the messages moderators send to you. They have no weight. Moderators will probably ask you for permission to ban you before they can muster the courage to execute the forbidden command.
-You can continue blocking for months, no moderator will hinder you. After you having established the reputation of a notorious blocker, moderators will still regard themselves as your advocate, giving you the benefit of the doubt, demanding evidence of regular players and in the end do nothing regardless.
-Moderators will choose to whine about there allegedly not being enough moderators in the community rather than stepping into action themselves. Others are supposed to do the dirty work of moderation, not them.
-Moderators will choose to reprimand ordinary players for "funvoting" if they call several votes to kick you rather than having to deal with you.
Take home messages for everyone else:
-Don't listen to moderators.
-Don't bother contacting moderators in the game. They will have wimpy excuses for doing nothing about blockers.
-Moderators will claim that they need bulletproof evidence before they even consider stepping into action, even when a notorious blocker gets called off multiple times by multiple players. Don't listen to them, providing them with the supposedly required bulletproof evidence won't do anything. It won't even get noticed. They just tell you they require evidence to fend their own responsibility.
-Don't bother posting on the forum. Nothing will happen. They won't even read your post or inspect the evidence because they can't be bothered.
-Moderators will choose to rather attack your tone than doing anything about any bad state of affairs, as other discussions in this forum indicate.