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MY THREAD THAT I STARTED FOR DAY OF AFK FARMING DOES NOT MEET THIS DEFINITION

So the thread that you made stating you were going to afk farm that was in no way directed at provoking any form of meaningful discourse, and was in fact just you venting about an issue that can probably be solved via means posted in the Technical Support section was locked unfairly?

Oh the horror.

Hercules making tons of friends lately

Last I checked I live in a free country and expressing my freedom of speech. If the MOD doesn't like it, all well. I just like how CCP is avoiding fixing the game by moderating forums that should just be meant to be read. General Discussion thread should mean we can talk about anything. That's why it's called General Discussion.

Freedom of speech does not apply on a privately owned internet forum. It's their forum, and they can make and enforce whatever rules they want. If you don't like it, there's not a damned thing you can do about it.

Face it, your other thread was just dumb, a bad idea that would have done absolutely nothing to improve your disconnect problem, and deserved to be locked.

Suck it up, buttercup.

inb4 lock for spam.

Not as stupid as not posting nothing... And just saying the game still in it's beginning stages that's all... How many other games were made since CCP announced Dust. Come on... It's just lazy programming... This should have been a complete game when it was released.

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