Well, at least you are relieved of the burden of having to review stuff on Amazon. But do they still send out automated emails asking for your review? If they stopped those, that would actually be nice.
I was banned from two CS 1.6 public servers.
One for being too good, the other for jokingly (or so I thought) admitting to being a cheater when some random noob called me one. I learned my lesson.
#humblebrag
The oddest case of (temp?) banning was when I tried to send messages on a DC++ server’s chat and what it displayed was not at all what I wrote. Still perplexed as to the what and why with that one.
I don’t know what a 1.6 whatever server is, but this reminds me of how I was once banned/expelled from an online game of Battlefield 1942. The sequence was… some guy on my own team looked right at me and killed me as I was sooooo close to achieving a perfect setup for an ambush, and I immediately responded by cursing that person out, and that person then nominated me for getting the boot, and before I could explain how I was totally justified (because the idiot had just killed me and I was on his side), I got kicked out of the game. Hurrumph!
I used to moderate a board owned by a woman whose son was the administrator. Neither one was all that bright.
One day the son decided to “upgrade” to vBulletin4.0 (I think - it’s been so long I can’t remember the version, but it is the one that by that time was already famous for being crappy).
Son did the upgrade without telling us, and managed to royally screw it up so that the board was almost comically buggy, not to mention very different from the version we’d been using. No explanation was given, just one day the board looked completely different and was practically unusable.
The posting community was taken by surprise and was understandably supremely annoyed, especially by the fact that they hadn’t even been warned that the entire interface was changing.
As the admin was practically invisible (he never, ever posted, much less tried to become part of the community), the posters blamed the mods, thinking we had known about the upgrade, perhaps even engineered it ourselves, but hadn’t had the courtesy to inform anyone first or even acknowledge it afterward.
The entire mod team protested our innocence, assuring everyone that we had NO IDEA the change was planned, and joined in the raucous complaining about how badly the situation had been handled.
The site owner couldn’t stand to see her pwecious baby criticized and banned the whole mod team as well as a few of the more vocal critics among the posters. Not only that, she accused us of “sabotaging” the site - yup, that was her exact word, sabotaging.
We started a competing site a few days later and literally all but one of the regular posters left the old site, with the vast majority joining our new site. The old site is practically dead - there are maybe 2-3 posts a week from new people who make 1 post and never return. Our new site is doing fine.
I believe it’s the game Counter Strike.
(Gives secret handshake. )
Actually, at best, the customer is supposed to get Free Stuff as a result of complaining, no matter what may have happened to the employee or what the security camera says.
I was kicked out of and banned from Disneyland. Does that count?
But many years later, I returned for a visit. I behaved too.
Ahem. Waiting to hear more.
It was a dumb college stunt. We were about 19 or 20. A friend and I were on the Goodyear Peoplemover and I was bored so I said, let’s get off of this thing. So in a dark tunnel we got off of it and started to walk. It was my brilliant idea, and she followed along. We quickly tripped a kill switch and the whole ride shut down and the lights came on. Security took us into their office, took our names and they kicked us out and said we are banned from Disneyland and would never be allowed back.
This was about 40 years ago.
I’d been using TVTropes (the only user-editable site that I edited, and frequently) when I got a notice saying that “we want to discuss things with you”. I didn’t feel like livechatting with strangers, especially ones that couldn’t even explain what I did wrong, so I was eventually blocked. To this day I still don’t know exactly for what. Here’s all I can tell you:
- I didn’t delete or alter other people’s entries, but I made numerous spelling and grammar corrections, changed badly worded sentences to make them clearer, and fixed formatting mistakes.
- I added branch items wherever I thought they were appropriate.
- Sometimes I’d miss a typo the first time, and I’d immediately go back in and fix it.
- I left column headings alone. The only change I ever remember making was “STARTING TO SLIP” to “SLIPPED” on the Network Decay page. (Most of the examples given were at least several years old, well past the point of “starting” anything.)
- On several occasions I changed a “Murder, Arson, and Jaywalking” link to something more accurate because it was almost never used properly. (TVTropes seemed to have a weirdly powerful fixation with that one, kind of like how “Hi, Opal!” used to be here.)
- My blocking happened during a time when the site had a deal with adblocker sites to put up a whiny pop up to shut off the adblocker and how many times you took money out of their pockets, boo hoo boo hoo you thief.
(For the record, every site I ever went to that pulled that crap was almost completely unusuable without an adblocker.) I didn’t see why a user-edited site needed so much ad revenue, and no one ever bothered to explain this fine point to me, so I left it the hell on.
Eh. They can have it.
Lots of years ago, a buddy and I were at San Diego’s Seaworld. I’m guessing adult beverages were involved.
We were on the aerial tram when a couple of ladies came toward us in an ‘oncoming’ gondola. They were jeering us for no particular reason. It’s possible that adult beverages were involved there, too.
My buddy suggested that they smooch his backside.
The ladies asked us to bare said backsides.
And we did.
Even back then, there – apparently – were surveillance cameras on the support towers. We were escorted from the park (but not asked not to return).
Huh, I’ve been doing much more extensive edits than you for years, never got a single missive about anything I’ve edited.
OT, but it’s been discussed on the forum many times. Hell until the other day I thought it was a Crime & Punishment trope snd not Comedic, because many of the examples I’ve seen have veered in that direction…