Moderation Abuse in-game

Today while playing I was interacting in Global chat with some other people, in three different messages I wrote out "milennial quip", "trump" and "white guilt" - as a way to troll some other person in a friendly and non-malicious banter kind way. You know, the way that most people with a sense of humor speak with each-other?

I was given a 10 minute chat ban for saying "trump". When I later spoke out about it in global, once again I was given another chat ban - this time for 30 minutes.

This is blatant misuse of Moderation power and obviously politically biased, though my comments had nothing to do with politics whatsoever aside from saying some fairies trigger word.
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Today while playing I was interacting in Global chat with some other people, in three different messages I wrote out "milennial quip", "trump" and "white guilt" - as a way to troll some other person in a friendly and non-malicious banter kind way. You know, the way that most people with a sense of humor speak with each-other?

I was given a 10 minute chat ban for saying "trump". When I later spoke out about it in global, once again I was given another chat ban - this time for 30 minutes.

This is blatant misuse of Moderation power and obviously politically biased, though my comments had nothing to do with politics whatsoever aside from saying some fairies trigger word.

To quote the game's Code of Conduct;

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Support wrote:
Please do not:

● Discuss inflammatory topics, such as Politics or Religion

Break the rules; get punished. I'm not seeing the "abuse."

You won't convince many people with the apparent 'I was posting about politicians; not politics' argument. Nobody wants to see that nonsense in their chat box in a video game.

GGG don't care about American politicians; they're all New Zealanders. Besides, all in-game chat moderation is report-driven. If you want to convince people you're a pleasant person who they should want to see in chat, that post is a strange way of going about it...
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