Never got permanently banned although I think I did manage a suspension or at the very least some serious warnings on the gamespot boards a while back.
Compared to some of the places I’ve been, I think SDMB is pretty tolerant and even-handed, despite some of the comments I’ve seen to the contrary. If anything I think it tends to lean a bit too far in that direction at times. But having been the recipient of that largesse myself on more than one occasion, I suppose that’s preferable to the alternative.
Generally I leave forums that I feel have become too provincial or cliquish for my taste. Either that or have become too dominated by what I consider boorish and philistine attitudes. Not that one can’t find undercurrents of both problems here but they never seems to dominate, which is refreshingly uncommon.
That has been my theory as well - that someone with a similar car, username, or both had just been banned and they thought he was clumsily trying to sneak back in.
Kicked off a dial-up BBS in 1992 for using the name Lord Morpheus (taken fro the Sandman comic). Reason? “There is only one Lord.”
Haha, this is too good. Imagine all the British Lords who were banned from that site. It isn’t easy being royalty…
Television Without Pity, very suddenly after over a year of good standing, over a post I feel was rather misinterpreted and overreacted to.
It’s still a little puzzling to me.
Gaming forum-put an obscenity into my password (which only I should have been able to see, natch).
Was banned before I could even make my first post…
Do sock puppets count?
I decided to walk away from the official Star Wars boards a few years ago because it was so poorly moderated. Most threads got locked immediately, and only one thread on any subject was allowed. Ever. So most threads were several years and thousands of posts long. In one thread I stated (politely, just like I learned on the SDMB) why I thought the forum was boring and that I was leaving, and got a bunch of nasty comments from the mods.
So I registered a sock puppet account with an insulting variation of one of the mod’s names as my username. I didn’t really troll, I just posted normally here and there to see how long it would take the mods to notice my username and ban me. Took about three days.
I registered at a mental health-related forum once. I posted a synopsis of myself in their introductions forum and posted an innocuous question in one thread.
The next time I visited the site I got a message that I had been banned. No explanation was offered, so I emailed the forum’s moderator, who told me I was banned because my posting style was similar to that of a member who had recently been banned. No way I could defend against that, so I just wished him well and went on with my life.
I got kicked off a “remote viewing” website based in Hawaii-apparently, asking if and/or how it works were two of the forbidden topics there.
I was booted from a forum many years ago due to agreeing with some rabblerousers. The person who ran the site went off the rails, some posters called her on some of her actions, and boom - a bunch of us were banned. I didn’t mind, a new board was established (and yet another board opened what that first one imploded) and I still post there sometimes.
I had to leave a mailing list for the same reason once. Yes an email mailing list, that is still going.
It was a list for the community I live in, and a year or so later I sent an announcement to the list owner for a community event, using the email address of the alumni group I run. The guy immediately subscribed the email address to his list so that we’d get the newsletter, and I immediately unsubscribed. All I wanted was to have my announcement posted, just like tons of other community groups do.
The guy threw a hissy fit when I unsubscribed, saying that if I wanted to have my community announcement in his community newsletter I should have to get the creepiness delivered to my inbox every week. I told him that it was a group email address (it is) and if our other group members wanted to subscribe to his list they were more than welcome, but it would not be fitting to subscribe a whole group of people to his list.
The guy that runs it is a local city councilman. He’s so creepy and paranoid, I cringe every time I see he’s been re-elected.
I got banned from a feminist blog for pointing out to another poster that the webmaster automatically believed everything a certain poster said about her ex-husband, no matter how outlandish or one-sided it was. No big deal, because that site went off the rails shortly afterwards.
I post on another board that has multiple forums (fora?) and several political boards blocked everyone who belonged to boards about opposing political views. One of them has several thousand members, which makes me think that some people have way too much free time. I went to those forums to see if I was blocked too, and several of them were boards I had never even heard of.
There are other forums?
Really the only ones I’ve ever bothered with were specialty forums that I found on searches for specific questions. This place wastes enough of my time I don’t need another one.
I hate those kinds of threads, way too long to read, and sometimes they get bumped for just a “Me too” type thing. I’m sure lots of good info gets missed because someone will say “I saw that over here, no need for this thread” so newer people don’t post. I’ve seen a few boards just die that way.
I’ve wanted to troll before, just to see what it was like, but honestly I don’t want to act like a jerk for no reason, that and I really don’t want to waste the time. I will admit though that back in 92-93 on IRC I used to have a bot that did all the trolling for me, including insulting people and kicking them off channels. That email got banned in a week or so.
I think there’s one member here who has bragged about trolling other boards and getting banned because of it. He’s a guy, but pretended to be a woman giving birth to twins or something for…some reason? Not sure what his end game was, other than trolling for the lulz.
“Fakers” are actually a fairly big problem on multiple pregnancy websites, and they are usually teenage girls doing it for attention. They’re fairly easy to spot, because the babies are huge (i.e. quadruplets weighing 7 pounds each), the pregnancies are impossibly easy, and the babies are overwhelmingly girls, with an occasional token boy thrown into the mix, and generally have really cutesy names with lots of Ys in them.
Left a popular one not that long ago.
Sock puppets, trolls, stormfront, racist, homophobic, hill Billy, liberal lunatics,
Heavily moderated, cross dressers, unfair treatment of many posters, conservative cock blocking,
Men haters, women bashers, lonely men, looney chicks worrying about how they look.
They even have a site dedicated to the posters and hated moderators.
So, not kicked off, but threatened by an Ass of a moderator.
Left before wasting more time there.
Bob-You’re thinking of me. “Trolling” is my only true life vice IMO.
I was kicked off an internal company forum for a joke post saying that the “Suggestion Boxes” put up in various offices were, in reality, paper shredders.