As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I was temporarily banned on a forum for toy collectors because they had mistaken me for a spammer. That board ironically got invaded by actual spammers and ended up being taken down.
I’m threadbanned from the Positive Gun News thread.
I was banned from Woolco for shoplifting in 1974 or 75. Glad they didn’t call the cops but not too much of a hardship. I’m please to see that I outlived that outfit.
Online, I was IP banned from conservapedia. Never posted there or tried to edit or anything but I did post a link somewhere else to a conservapedia article on Poe’s Law. It wasn’t the main article but a discussion about their difficulty distinguishing sincere edits and vandalism. Guess it’s pretty hard for them.
I ‘banned’ myself from a hockey message board. Actually, I cornfielded myself.
I was so pissed off at the lazy and inconsistent moderation that when the straw broke the camel’s back I went and manually deleted all of my posts that I could find and left and never looked back.
Temporarily on a site for my neighborhood in Washington DC. There was this long thread about the poor state of one of our neighbor’s lawn and I asked “who spends this much time worrying about someone else’s yard? Wouldn’t you people be happier back in the suburbs?” And that did it.
Then again, in the winter, there was the predictable thread about how DC can’t drive in the snow and where they are from we know how to drive in the snow. I replied “no one asked you to come here and no one cares if you leave; if where you came from was so great, you wouldn’t have left.” And that did it again.
Seriously? That’s quite rare. What did you do? If it isn’t too personal.
I was in a Facebook group “Doctor Who Fans Who Actually Like the Show.”
They were doing a poll of episodes. I said, “none of these are particularly good ones.” They banned me for a week.
Evidently, the Happiness Patrol did exist on their group.
My irony meter’s needle twitched.
Many years ago I was banned from CureZone (at the time a popular conglomeration of forums dealing with quackery ranging from oil-pulling to “urine therapy”; postings there dropped off markedly, due to the rise of social media and the probably deaths of many participants from engaging in useless and risky health practices). My sin was counteracting antivax rantings* with factual information.
*my main opponent eventually keeled over from heart ailments, complaining bitterly to the end about how the hospital resisted letting him self-treat with an armada of supplements he’d brought in.
I was banned from my town’s unofficial Facebook page for being a “socialist trouble maker”. Was it BLM, masking, vaccinations, taxation, zoning, common core or something even vaguely political.
Nope. I studiously stayed out of those polarizing issues. It was a complaint about drivers running cyclists off the road. Apparently courtesy to bicycle riders is subversive to the “semi rural character” of the town. Intercession from paler skinned residents managed to get me readmitted.
I was also banned from the Pakistani American Student Association at university over 30 years ago. They were perfectly happy to have non-Muslim members who were NOT Pakistani (or Pakistani-American) but the existence of non-Muslim Pakistanis caused too much dissonance in a group whose organizers defaulted to Pakistan = Muslim as an identity.
I’ve nearly been banned from my online writing group on a few occasions. I tend to jump to the defense of my friends a little too easily, even when they’re wrong.
I did get removed as a mod there, though, and at another message board. I also got bumped back down from shift leader to CSR at Blockbuster after my nervous breakdown in 2007. I don’t do well in positions of authority.
About 20-ish years ago I used to post regularly on a board which shall remain nameless (I don’t even know if it’s still operating). The board dealt with personal, family, and self-help issues and was owned by a practitioner of these arts. Over a period of a few months, a group of about a dozen sympatico individuals (I was a ringleader) gathered in one of the forums, and we kind of took it over. It’s weird how something in virtual space can feel so physical. We were like a gang of kids who occupied one corner of a high school cafeteria and held court there. We weren’t rude or disruptive or anything–we offered excellent advice and help to the board’s visitors who came looking for such. But we were cocky and also kind of in competition with the owner who was, after all, ultimately selling their online services, in-person services, and books.
After a few warnings, several of us saw the handwriting on the virtual wall and began collecting our group’s email addresses in PMs, so that when all of us were banned in one swell foop of a Saturday Night Massacre, we started our own community on ProBoards and kept it going for a few more years.
I was banned from a legal forum about 10 years ago for calling a poster a putz. He complained to the forum administrator that I called him a derogatory name. Got banned for 10 days and never went back. The guy backed into a police car and drove away. He cried about being arrested. He was a putz.
She may have been subject to latae sententiae excommunication - automatic by force of law. There are only a few circumstances - assaulting the Pope, apostasy, throwing away the consecrated Eucharistic species (bread and wine), attempting to become a priest while female, and having an abortion.
~Max
I got banned from Disqus Wired.com comments, not sure why but I suspect for saying that some people voted for Obama because he was black. Which I can see could be a controversial thing to say, but people have voted for people for a lot dumber reasons than that. It’s ignorant to think his race wasn’t a big topic during his campaigns.
I also got auto-banned from I believe r/offmychest on Reddit because I had replied to some comment posted in an entirely different subreddit. IIRC it was some article that came up in r/all and I replied to some dumb comment without even noticing what subreddit it was posted in. Little did I know that r/offmychest had bots that would look for anyone that posted to whatever that “bad” subreddit was and automatically and pre-emptively ban everyone that posted there.
I’ve recently been banned from walking on a marina, with or without my dog, a block away from my house. Some background. I live in a planned community that has a public golf course and a private marina. I used to own a slip at the marina, but I bought a house with a dock a block away from the marina two years ago and sold the slip. Due to a conflict with my neighborhood HOA, I decided to opt-out of it, and as a result, I am now banned from walking on or near the marina. It’s part of the HOA’s tit-for-tat and I simply avoid the marina when I walk with or without my dog. Technically, I never opted into the HOA since I never signed the CC&Rs.
Dade county Florida banned me for life. They haven’t tried to enforce the ban that I’ve noticed.
There has to be a good story here. Please tell.
1972 Republican National Convention nominated Richard M. Nixon for re-election. Me and a few thousand others were just standing there minding our business and calling them running dog lackeys of the bourgeoisie when they arrested us.
I didn’t know being arrested could lead to being permanently banned from a county. If you were pulled over in Dade County would you immediately be arrested? What would you be charged with, violating a court order?
I doubt there is anything like a suitable court record of that night without even considering the ability of a judge to ban me for life from the county.