OmarsComin posted...
modded for illegal activities for discussing an SNES emulator. I was like "I didn't do anything wrong" and the first mod was like "emulators are illegal." then I was like "no they're not, here's legal discussions. also, I didn't break a single part of the illegal activities rules section." the second mod also upheld, though mentioned that he agreed that I didn't break the ToS and that it was just one of those unwritten decisions mods went by.
later on the same year a few of us were discussing the same emulator, were modded, but that time got them overturned. how the rules are applied seems pretty vague and inconsistent. the only thing you can be sure on is that if you are actually modded, you've got a pretty small chance of getting it overturned.
To be fair, it's a very wide-arcing rule.
Discussion of mod chips, custom firmware, copying games, playing copied games, cracking games, No-CD patches, piracy releases, homebrew, copyrighted ROMs, copyrighted ISOs, and basically anything related to game, movie, TV, or music piracy is not permitted.
Emulators ARE related to piracy, even if they can be used legally. Thus, while it's probably up to each moderator on whether they personally feel like actually doing anything, it technically CAN be said to be against the ToS with little argument, so it's really safer just to avoid it all together.
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