I got banned from an aviation interest forum. Those guys took what should be the safest form of recreational aviation and made it the most deadly by far. And I don’t mean a bit more dangerous, I mean like a hundred times more dangerous.
They got tired of me telling them they were doing stupid shit and had very poor attitudes towards safety.
I checked in every now and then to read stuff for the next 3 years or so. The guy I thought was dangerous as hell was dead in 6 months. They averaged another death of active flying and posting posters every 6 months after that as well.
I remember thinking I could easily make the argument that being an astronaut was actually safer.
I’ve never been banned. I have, however, quit posting at a message board when it became apparent that the people who owned it were quite tolerant of willfully ignorant people, and quite intolerant when someone pointed out their ignorance, and gave cites. I enjoyed some people and information at that message board, but when the mods said that “everyone is entitled to his own opinion”, and I replied that opinions are not facts, and people are NOT entitled to their own facts…I was told that an opinion about a fact, no matter how bizarre (and we’re talking about how the Gummint is gonna secretly implant us all with microchips in order to track our every move*, or the Gummint designed and developed AIDS as a biological weapon and it got loose, either accidently or on purpose, or that email is going to be taxed, or just about any urban legend on Snopes) had to be respected as valid. I could see that either I’d have to tolerate a lot of bullshit in order to stay at that board, or I’d get myself suspended and then banned. Since I didn’t like those options, I left the board. There’s plenty of other boards out there, I’ve since found about three or four more to my liking, so I go to those boards.
*While I think that humans might indeed get microchipped, I think it’s going to be for security and information purposes, and I don’t think that it’s going to be a secret from all but a Chosen Few. I wouldn’t mind, for instance, having a chip in me that will tell an emergency medical team that I’m diabetic, have heart problems, and I’m allergic to several antibiotics.
From a Heroes of Might & Magic site. Later I noticed that it was a 2nd account (1st email went defunct), but a careful perusal of the rules made no mention of a prohibition against same, or an anti-sock policy. I did put an obscenity into my password, just on a lark-guess an admin took a peek, assumed I was a troll, and gave me the boot before I could even post anything. :shrug:
good luck, behave yourself, now!.. The bouncer wouldn’t let me into a disco once because he said I was drunk. (that might be my new username - Drunk At The Disco) - yeah, so? Did he think I was going in there to start a knife fight???
The first week I was turned loose to surf on the computer I violated TOS fighting with a troll on a talk show website, and that website tattled on me. They reported to the master account that I was being a dick, and of course that was my husband, who nearly died laughing at me! :rolleyes:
My brother and I got our parents AOL account suspended for using a punter (an IM-Bomber that causes the other person to be signed off). We got into an argument with some guy on an AOL online game and so we punted him constantly until we got reported or AOL caught on somehow. They called and told my Dad that what we were doing was violating the TOS. Fortunately they let us back on.
Childish, I know, but I was probably only 11 or 12 at the time.
Yikes! :eek: As a Doper, whose sworn duty it is to stamp out ignorance, that kind of site worries me! Since there are plenty of sites that dispel ignorance (ours and snopes come to mind), that are more than likely more popular than his, how could the sysop justify this?? I mean, we (and snopes) know that people come here with come pretty crazy misconceptions, but we don’t ridicule them mercilessly but rather treat them with respect while showing them the error of their ways. Are they afraid you wouldn’t there?
I was banned for life from C J Barney’s in Oakland when I was a student at the Pitts. That bar is now gone and I have a certain pride in having outlived both them and their ban.
I got kicked out of a Yahoo group once. The owner had his agenda to promote certain living history events and I wanted to learn more about history during the 1750s. The constant ads for events, few with any basis in history, got on my nerves and I said so politely. When some others agreed with me, we collectively got bounced.
I haven’t been banned, but I did quit one in disgust when the owner and his fan club started giving me shit for claiming not to be a despicable person who would throw innocent people under the bus to save myself.
I was once banned for a few days because I’d posted in an amusing spam thread, and the mod was rather new and accidentally banned everyone that’d posted in it. It was reinstated after a few days with an apology from the mod. I never took offense to it though, I thought it was hilarious logging into my account and seeing “You do not have posting privileges and your account is suspended. Reason: You’re a wanker!”
I didn’t actually stick around for the ban to go into effect, but over on the Dumbrella boards I got into it with a mod who basically told me to “stop farting in our faces” when discussing my political perspective (entirely in context in the relevant thread). I sent him a PM with a picture of me wearing a T-shirt that said “BOLSHEVIK” and flipping the bird, and never went back to the boards again. Other than that, no.
I got banned years ago from a forum because one of the mod or admin, whatever, had sent me a pm asking me personal info (their whereabouts and contact info) about a friend. I didn’t reply, thinking if she were that close to my friend, she should already have the info she was asking, plus I didn’t know her AT ALL.
She sent me two other pm becoming more and more irate, then finally banned me cuz she said it was unnaceptable not to reply to her, when dumb me thought at the time it was better, when someone is flying off the handle, to just let them be without replying.
I still think she is a nutcase.
The sysop and her various minions were pretty suspicious of the Gummint motives, too. They weren’t as whacko as some of their posters, but we were all supposed to sing Kumbaya together, and accept every opinion as valid as anyone else’s. I guess, though, that the people on the SDMB and Snopes and various other debunking websites somehow don’t qualify as having a valid opinion. IOW, their minds are made up, don’t confuse them with facts.
I was group warned, that is, I was one of a group who was giving one poster a dose of reality about her life plans. This kid couldn’t read or write very well, couldn’t THINK very well, and planned to take her half dozen dairy goats and move out of her mother’s house when she turned 18, which was some half a year in the future. I swear, this girl would not be able to pass an eighth grade language skills class, let alone Senior English in high school. Her math skills were similarly bad. I told her, pretty bluntly, that there are no apartments that will allow dairy goats as pets, and what’s more, goats are usually not allowed in the city limits, even in suburban homes. She thought that somehow, she would be able to find a place to live, and a place to work, and keep her beloved goats with her, all while she had no savings (her goats produced milk, but she was unable to make a profit from them), no transportation, and no skills other than being able to milk goats and muck them out. She kept insisting that she could make things work, because she believed in herself. Which is all very well and good. Oh, and did I mention that she wanted to move out because she didn’t like her mother’s new boyfriend? And his stuff kept “accidentally” turning up in her room? In other words, she was stealing his stuff, and her mother and mom’s boyfriend were giving her grief about her thievery. Gee, I wonder why? I told her that I thought they were perfectly justified in being mad at her, and wanting her to quit stealing, but apparently I wasn’t supportive and kind enough. As I said, I was group-warned, I was not told my individual transgressions. I figured that I would not be able to make a difference on that board, and even though I really liked some of the posters, and I learned a few new things there, the aggravation far outweighed the benefits.
Heh. I like it. Usually when I ban a spammer, I just put “Spammer” in the reason box.
I got banned from the 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.
good luck, behave yourself, now!.. The bouncer wouldn’t let me into a disco once because he said I was drunk. (that might be my new username - Drunk At The Disco) - yeah, so? Did he think I was going in there to start a knife fight???