# Has anybody here ever been banned from a forum/website? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 28, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274 "2009-11-28T22:16:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/41 "2009-11-29T12:50:46Z")
> [@Livardo](#): > > I got banned from the [419eater.com](http://419eater.com) forums for posting an image of albino black people. I guess they thought it was racist or something but it pissed them off enough to give me a perm ban. Later I found out the mods there are really anal retentive douches who ban people for the dumbest reasons. I just googled ‘‘albino black people.’’ Cool. Under what circumstances did you post the image? Was it solicited and relevant to the topic? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/42 "2009-11-29T13:34:43Z")
A virtual world didn’t like my binary numeric user name and auto banned me. I didn’t care because there were about 100 worlds to visit and I was just looking at peoples constructs. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/43 "2009-11-29T13:48:21Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > I just googled ‘‘albino black people.’’ Cool. Under what circumstances did you post the image? Was it solicited and relevant to the topic? I wonder what a black albino would look like… ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/44 "2009-11-29T14:15:40Z")
I was banned from a parenting board for daring to suggest that one of the addicted-to-pregnancy women (whose babies kept getting smaller and more health-compromised the more she had, including losing several babies shortly after birth) was perhaps a wee bit selfish for (allegedly) choosing to get pregnant when her very ill twins were still in the NICU. I know that I should respect a person’s right to make her own decision, but her twins were very very sick, plus she had 11 other kids at home, and I really doubted that she was going to be able to attend to any of their needs. But hey! She was pregnant! Baby dust for everyone!!! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/45 "2009-11-29T14:48:36Z")
I got banned from the PublishAmerica message board for pointing out they were a vanity press and telling their authors that they’d be lucky if their book sold 100 copies (and only that if they bought 95 of the 100 themselves). I’m proud of that. They later banned anyone who wasn’t an author (and who might know how publishing works). PA bans anyone who tries to say anything bad about them, even the authors they publish. If you complain, you’re gone and your posts are removed. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/46 "2009-11-29T15:02:23Z")
I wasn’t banned from a board, but I _was_ kicked off an email discussion list for - as near as I can tell - the twin crimes of (1) mentioning the list’s existence on a _different_ discussion list serving a superset of the first list’s membership, and (2) suggesting that followers of a specific religious movement (which shall remain nameless) were as susceptible to questioning and doubt as followers of other, related, religious movements. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/47 "2009-11-29T19:45:22Z")
About six years ago, I was banned from a rather popular forum for members of a particular online cohort after suggesting that the main admin (who had already driven away one of her two co-founders and driven the third into near silence with her domineering ways) was being lax about policing a member who was making anti-Semitic comments. After his seventh such comment in the span of a couple of months, only one of which was in a thread related to religion in any way, I PM’ed the admin to ask why he was being given so much slack. I knew that she and the guy were nominally friends, but that shouldn’t have exempted him from the rules. She disliked being questioned on that particular subject matter and dropped the banhammer on me. The anti-Semite, who was subjected to at least three threads in that forum’s equivalent to our BBQ Pit for his outrageous comments during my time as a member, was not so much as warned and has, in the intervening years, actually been made a moderator. Following a link into his LJ a couple of weeks ago (unknowingly, I only put two and two together on the name after the fact) I found that his anti-Semitism continues and there was a nasty anti-Jewish “joke” posted, publicly, on October 4 of this year. The irony? The admin who inoculated and promoted the anti-Semite is, like myself, Jewish. The kicker? She got angry that I complained about it because, as I found out, she had an issue with my (at the time) much more observant Jewish lifestyle which she referred to (in an e-mail that was forwarded to me by another member to whom she complained about me) as my “Gretl from the shtetl martyr shtick” and thought that I was a “religious poseur” because I’m a convert to Judaism whereas she is a Jew by birth but completely non-observant. The sad thing is that I still miss the people on that forum. The admin was, in retrospect, clearly a loonbat, but the membership was nice. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/48 "2009-11-29T19:59:23Z")
I got a warning here once, that’s about it. Two improv comedy forums essentially dissolved and, after I left, reconstituted without me. Not quite the same thing, but… ---
**Author:** ![Livardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/43a26b/32.png) [@Livardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Livardo)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/49 "2009-11-29T20:46:24Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > I just googled ‘‘albino black people.’’ Cool. Under what circumstances did you post the image? Was it solicited and relevant to the topic? I really don’t remember. I just know that when I posted it I didn’t think “hey, this is kinda racist, let’s see if I can troll these bastids”. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/50 "2009-11-29T20:57:17Z")
Years and years ago, I got banned from this board, but not because of me but because of the IP address. It said I was banned but if I logged on at the library or work it was OK. This was over 10 years at least, so I reckon they were getting spam from an IP address I was on and just blanket banned it. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/51 "2009-11-30T02:19:13Z")
Well that’s one page down without anyone showing up to say, “I was banned from xxxx; I think they could’ve handled it differently, but I broke the rules and was mostly in the wrong.” Over/Under on the number of posts before someone shows up and cops to being less than blameless in their banning? ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/52 "2009-11-30T06:16:46Z")
Well, I would think that if someone felt what they were doing was wrong, they wouldn’t do it. 😃 I bet we have one within the next 10 posts though. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/53 "2009-11-30T07:43:36Z")
I was banned from a Korean online shopping website (similar to eBay). Here’s how I discovered that I’d been banned. My boyfriend wanted to buy a sofa for cheap. We searched online and found a nice one on this particular website. We tried to sign up with his name but the site kept rejecting his alien registration number so I decided to create an account under my name. The website responded by saying that I already had an account with them. I’d created it so long ago that I couldn’t remember doing it. But I managed to remember the ID and PW and logged myself in. It was then I discovered that I’d been “eternally banned.” (That’s how they phrased it.) Apparently for screwing with someone’s auction. (Bidding and then not paying.) I looked at the ID of the person I’d apparently screwed with and I recognized it as my dad’s ID. I then called my dad to inquire, WTF? It turned out that he’d used my account to try and screw with his own auction, then when it didn’t work out abandoned the whole thing altogether. :eek: I think the whole reason I’d created an account on that website was because my dad had asked me to at the time. My boyfriend, despite being unable to get the couch he wanted, found the whole thing hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/54 "2009-11-30T07:50:50Z")
Yeah when I was 14 I got banned from a message board based around a game I was playing. I was being a bit obnoxious but in my defense, I was 14. It was only supposed to be a temporary suspension and I was supposed to e-mail the administrator after a certain period of time to get re-instated, but I just never came back. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/55 "2009-11-30T08:56:10Z")
> [@VarlosZ](#): > > Well that’s one page down without anyone showing up to say, “I was banned from xxxx; I think they could’ve handled it differently, but I broke the rules and was mostly in the wrong.” > > Over/Under on the number of posts before someone shows up and cops to being less than blameless in their banning? Well someone did say: > [@](#): > > I was also banned from one temporarily for being sassier than I should’ve, but was re-instated afew days later. This poster was very late to the thread admittedly. Oh no, wait. He wasn’t. He was the OP :dubious: And then there was this: > [@](#): > > I was banned here once for a couple of days due to my own stupidity, but it was nothing major, and things were straightened out. Which wasn’t stated until _post #7_. Did you actually read this thread before making your post? ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/56 "2009-11-30T10:28:38Z")
I meant an actual, “don’t come back now, ya hear?” ban. Cooling off periods and the like tend not to leave the same kind of bitter feelings that preclude one from seeing the other side of the argument. ETA: **Rigamarole** ’s post isn’t exactly what I meant, either: we’re not as defensive about our childhood transgressions as we are about those we commit as adults. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/57 "2009-11-30T10:37:32Z")
Nah. I got warned about filterdodging once (that particular message board has an absolutely ridiculous swear words filter system that, fortunately, is also ridiculously easy to bypass). I was still a bit pissed about it, though, because A) I was quoting something that had the F-word in it, and B) I absolutely HATE censoring myself. If I wanna say the F-word on a forum board meant for adults (membership is for ages 13+) then I’m gonna say the goddamned F-word. Not to mention some of the filtered words were just plain STUPID. “Slope” as a filtered word? The hell?? I know it’s supposedly a racial slur, but for fuck’s sake, who the hell actually USES it like that? And if they ARE using it like that, why not just ban them? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/58 "2009-11-30T11:29:24Z")
One day a bunch of us from the NADS (UK SDMB spinoff) messageboard trolled the Libertines messageboard. We were pretty good at it, flipping from cogent and thoughtful arguments and opinions to out-and-out abuse, then immediately flipping back to writing intelligently. People couldn’t work out if we were serious or not. I believe we all got banned. It was fun. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/59 "2009-11-30T11:30:09Z")
How timely. I was banned from a blog this morning for posting a comment that contained “three words that tripped the profanity filter, which users are warned not to do.” The three words? Sassy, assignation and passenger. No lie. All three came up in my posted comment with asterisks, s\*\*\*y, _ **ignation and p** _enger. I decided that this wasn’t one I wanted to fight. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274/60 "2009-11-30T11:47:32Z")
The first two I can kind of sort of get if I look at them from a seriously, _seriously_ twisted viewpoint, but “passenger”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-ever-been-banned-from-a-forum-website/519274.md?page=4)